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START in the News

September 2012

The National Interest: Learning from Sri Lanka
Global Security Monitor:
Comminique: Researchers awarded nearly $1 million to improve effectiveness of emergency alert text messaging
Washington Examiner: Mayhem in Africa, incompetence in Washington
Yahoo News: Homegrown terrorism
Recovery Diva: Two New Reports on Risk Communication – From START at Univ. of MD
The Daily Beast: FEAR Plot to Overthrow U.S. Government Part of Rising Domestic Extremism

August 2012

Los Angeles Times: The nonthreatening path of a future mass murderer
CNN: Understanding America’s domestic extremist threat
Bostonglobe: A Culture of hate
University World News: Understanding Lone Wolf Terrorism: Global patterns, motivations and prevention
GTD cited in new book on lone wolf terrorists
Various: Coverage of Far-right Violence Fact Sheet
Security Management: One-Stop Shop for Counterterrorists
Newstrack India: US study says no clear pattern on true risk of terrorism at Olympic Games
GlobeNewswire and Homeland Security Today: Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel
Medill NATIONAL SECURITY ZONE: Why is ‘terrorism’ so hard to define?
NPR: Temple gunman said military experience drove him to hate
MS News Now: Researchers examine new implementations for emergencies

July 2012

The Takeaway: Was the Colorado Shooter a Terrorist?
Washington Times: Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970 to 2008
Inside Indonesia: Why Civil Resistance Works
Huffington Post: 'Dark Knight' Shooting: Mass Murder Up, Even While Gun Violence Down
Foreign Policy magazine: Think Again: Al Qaeda

June 2012

AFP: US drones 'could destabilize Pakistan'
Middle East Online: Libi loss is serious blow for Al-Qaeda
NYTimes: Choosing From the Many Lessons of Sept. 11
UMD: DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR TEACHER Gary LaFree
AFP: Al-Libi ran Al-Qaeda central’s propaganda machine
MSNBC.com, The Daily Beast: Why Did Crime Decline?
Science Magazine: Parsing Terrorism

May 2012

CNN: Alleged 9/11 Plotters Facing Justice; Obama's Campaign Kickoff; Bin Laden's Secret Letters
AFP: A year after bin Laden's death, is Al Qaeda deterred?
BSOS News: Career Symposium
Oxford University Press: A cause for celebration?

April 2012

The Wall Street Journal: Seth Jones: Al Qaeda Is Far From Defeated
START-related research among most viewed in Homeland Security Digital Library
Salon: Is this man a terrorist?
Unknown: START partner receives grant from DHS
Baltimore Sun: Former Islamic jihadist teaches Middle Eastern politics at Washington College
Mobilizing Ideas: The Global Terrorism Database: Support for Terrorism as a Fundamental Instrument of Social Movements

March 2012

C-SPAN: Religious Freedom and Extremism: Lessons from the Arab Spring
Amarillo: Kony 2012: Online documentary draws attention to warlord
Security Management: Assembling an Archive of Terror: An interview with START director Gary LaFree
the Diamondback:
START research on CBRN weapons featured in top academic journal
The Foundry: Protecting America from Online Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
The Bulletin: Fearful of a nuclear Iran? The real WMD nightmare is Syria

February 2012

Eurasia Review: comments on START's 'Hot Spots' of Terror Report
Majalla: A Handshake to Kill