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START in the News

November 2013

Washington Post: Hyping the number of deaths from terrorism
The Washington Post: Peaceful protest is much more effective than violence for toppling dictators
TEDxTalks: The success of nonviolent civil resistance-Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder
Homeland Security News Wire: Perspectives on terrorism and responses to it
San Francisco Gate: NSA call-records program is prudence, not prying

October 2013

CNN: Terrorist attacks and deaths hit record high, report shows
FierceHomelandSecurity: Q&A-START's Gary LaFree on the evolving study of terrorism
MSNBC: Al Qaeda and its offshoots: The terror network now
LSE: Book Review-Divided We Stand, The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland’s Dissident Terrorists

September 2013

START: Researchers from START’s Training in Risk and Crisis Communication (TRACC) Program earn Top Paper Awards
Think Progress: Five Things The Kenya Mall Attack Tells Us About Global Terrorism
USA Today: Print Version, Front Page
AJC: Protecting kids with advanced non-lethal weapons – because not every school has Antoinette Tuff
FierceHomelandSecurity: Study, Far-right extremists behind loner attacks were younger, had more military experience

August 2013

The InfoGram: Emergency Communications Tower Security
CNA: US urged to recognize Nigerian extremist group as terrorists
START: START researcher comments on military interventions in civil wars
Psychology Today: "Friction" Mechanisms at Work-More about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
FierceHomelandSecurity: Violent ideological groups more hierarchical, tied to local greivances
Student Pulse: The Military-Industrial Complex in the United States-Evolution and Expansion from World War II to the War on Terror
Nigeria: U.S. Urged to Recognize Boko Haram as Terrorists
CNA: US urged to recognize Nigerian extremist group as terrorists
KGOU (NPR Oklahoma): World Views
PRI: Violence Across the Mideast-Are Islamic Radicals Stronger than Ever? PRI's The World
FierceHomelandSecurity: Attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts have killed hundreds since 1970
Foreign Affairs: Why Sit-Ins Succeed -- Or Fail
Albany Edu: Victor Asal discusses new al-Qaida terror threat
PolicyMic: Yemen Terror Threats Actually Come On Tail Of Huge Terrorism Decline
Union-Bulletin: Blaming all Muslims for terrorism ignores the facts

July 2013

KVNO: UNO students earn funding, internship from Homeland Security
The Duck of Minerva: Time to Put “Dying to Win” out to Pasture?
Waging Nonviolence: Changing sides doesn’t always make for transformation — just look at Egypt
Blogger charts GTD 2011 location data
Neal Rauhauser: Visualizing The Global Terrorism Database
Huffington Post: Why Violent Right-wing Extremism Doesn't Scare Americans
Westword: How Aaron Clauset discovered a pattern behind terrorist attacks...and what it told him
World Economic Forum: The Five Myths of Global Terrorism
Idaho Statesman: Caldwell business survives legal battles over fireworks sales, domestic terrorists

June 2013

Capital Press: Experts-GM wheat release unlikely eco-terrorism
Lobe Log: The Terror Diaspora
NDIA: Congressman-DHS Unresponsiveness Undermines Public Trust in Government
SiliconIndia: World's 10 Most Peaceful Nations
The Washington Times: Index-U.S. among nations less likely to pursue peace
FierceHomelandSecurity: Little known about environmental, animal-rights extremists despite attacks
ISN: Time to Dispel Some Myths about Terrorism
Huffington Post: Pushing Past the 'Grey Area' on Homegrown Radicalization
The Spectator: Countering Terrorism in Britain and France, by Frank Foley – review
Belfast Telegraph: US Notebook-Barack Obama is facing a fight to take US off a war footing
Executive Gov: State Dept’s Annual Report Says Unilateral, State Sponsored Terrorism on the Rise

May 2013

RTT News: US Report Notes Resurgence Of Iran's Terrorism Sponsorship; Al-Qaeda Weakness