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February 2016

Lawfare: Conflating Terrorism and Insurgency
Indo-Asian News Service: No evidence WikiLeaks list led to terrorist attacks
Washington Post: Want to stop Islamic terrorism? Be nicer to Muslims.
Voice of America: What will be the impact of Europe's New Counterterror Center?
Pakistan Express Tribune: Why terrorists attack education
Christian Science Monitor: Why compassion is a key ingredient to combating terrorism
Associated Press: Critics say SPLC targets, demonizes conservative groups
Combating Terrorism Center: Depictions and Youth in the Islamic State's Martyrdom Propaganda, 2015-2016
Reuters: The psychological underpinnings of 2016, the year America went nuts
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Lawmakers investigate potential data 'mega-breach'
Wall Street Journal: Terror Convicts Post Dilemma After Release From Prison
Wall Street Journal: Facebook Adds New Tool to Fight Terror: Counter Speech
Idaho News: Experts question whether North Korea is launching missiles, or selling them
Global Press Journal: Should Kenya Defence Forces pull out of Somalia?
Wall Street Journal: Twitter Suspended 125,000 ISIS-Related Accounts in Six Months
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Terrorism and tobacco
Los Angeles Times: Threatened by the Taliban, some schools in Pakistan close -- others arm teachers and build walls
LA Progressive: Seeing Flight as a Non-Violent Option
Foreign Policy: Erica Chenoweth and David Scheffer on When to Get Violent
Caribbean Life: Antigua PM reiterates call for ending U.S> embargo against Cuba

January 2016

The Hill: Oregon death is latest flashpoint for militias, feds
Radio New Zealand: Erica Chenoweth: Non-violent civil resistance
On the Media (WNYC): The Limitations of Terrorism Research
Washington Post: Education is becoming an extremist battleground in Pakistan
Financial Mail: Defying Africa gloom
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Experts discuss ISIS control in Libya
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Most Minnesotans have faith in U.S. to meet terrorist threat, poll finds
Times of Oman: University attack a blow but resolute Pakistan on course
NW News Network: Too Many Captains Could Undermind Armed Occupation
The Daily Samakal: Will Pakistan see more attacks on classrooms?
DNA India: Schools and universities are the new target of terrorists across the world
Inside Higher Ed: Attack on Pakistan's Bacha Khan University Kills 30
Mail & Guardian: Terrorists' guns and bombs are slowly changing Africa's way of life
Equilibrio Informativo: Professor, student killed as gunmen storm university in Pakistan
One India: From temple of wisdom to soft terror targets, educational institutes face the line of fire
Los Angeles Times: At least 21 killed in Pakistani university attack
DAWN: Pakistan school attacks: A visual overview of terror trends
Washington Post: How the world is proving MLK right about nonviolence
World Economic Forum: Is urban terrorism the new normal?
Salon: Donald Trump's biggest fiction
Otago Daily Times: Civil resistance specialist to visit
Fusion Online: Terrorist-Spotting Algorithms
The Canadian Press: What the stats say about the Obama era
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Terror experts concerned over al Qaeda resurgence
.Mic: Why Wasn't Dylann Roof One of Dozens Charged With Terrorism in 2015?
Vice Magazine: The Islamic State's Next Target: Libyan Oil
The Guardian: Shocked by the 'cubs of the caliphate'? Of course you are - that's ISIS's plan
The Atlantic: How to Resolve an Armed Standoff
Washington Examiner: Obama changes tone, not strategy, on Islamic State
Truthout: Building a Foreign Policy of Creative Nonviolence