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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Tracking Cartels: Exploiting Open Sources to Identify Trends	Marcus A. Boyd, Samuel D. Henkin	July, 2019 to July, 2020
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency SIGMA+	Thomas Guarrieri, Marcus A. Boyd, Steve Sin	July, 2018 to April, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to January, 2020
Updates to the Big, Allied, and Dangerous (BAAD) Dataset	Victor Asal	January, 2019 to December, 2019
Updates to the Leadership of the Extreme and Dangerous for Innovative Results (LEADIR) Dataset	Gina Scott Ligon	January, 2019 to December, 2019
Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia	Amy Pate, Barnett S. Koven, William Braniff	September, 2018 to December, 2019
Bargaining on and off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	Barnett S. Koven	February, 2019 to August, 2019
Dissuading Adversaries and their Radiological/Nuclear Pathways: Integrating Deterrence Theory and Analytics in the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA)	Amy Pate, Brandon Behlendorf, Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer, Steve Sin, Hamid Mohtadi, Marcus A. Boyd	October, 2013 to September, 2018
Belief Formation and Political Engagement: A Panel Study of the Dynamics of Change in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey	Mansoor Moaddel	September, 2015 to August, 2018
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Dynamics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Campaigns	Gary Ackerman, Joseph Young, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	July, 2014 to December, 2017
Ideologies and Motivations of Terrorist Organizations	Assaf Moghadam, Gary Ackerman	July, 2014 to December, 2017
Geospatial and Temporal Patterns of US Terrorism	Brent Smith, Kelly Damphousse	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Social Identity and Perceptions of Counterterrorism	Demis Glasford	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Tracking Attitudes within American Subculture	Clark McCauley, Sophia Moskalenko	July, 2012 to December, 2017
Modeling the Emergence of Leaders in Self-Organizing Social Networks	Nina Fefferman	July, 2016 to July, 2017
One God for All? Fundamentalism and Group Radicalization	Johanna Birnir, Nil Satana	July, 2013 to December, 2016
Organizational Determinants of Violence and Performance	Gina Scott Ligon	July, 2012 to December, 2016
Terrorist and Extremist Organizations (TEO) Database	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer	July, 2012 to December, 2016
Developing a Typology of Terrorism Involvement: A Basis for Sentencing, Management, Risk Reduction, Release & Monitoring of Terrorist Offenders		July, 2012 to December, 2015
Recruitment and Radicalization among US Far-Right Terrorists	Peter Simi	July, 2012 to December, 2015
Countering the Inhumane: Modeling Probable Pathways for Human Trafficking Along the U.S.- Mexico Border	Brandon Behlendorf	September, 2013 to December, 2014
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction	Gina Scott Ligon	November, 2014
An Assessment of Jamāʻat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-daʻwa wal-Jihād (Boko Haram): Strengths, Vulnerabilities and Policy Options	Amy Pate	July, 2014 to November, 2014
Massive Online Open Course: Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat	Gary LaFree, William Braniff, Katherine Worboys Izsak	January, 2014 to March, 2014
Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance of Violence	Risa Brooks	July, 2012 to December, 2013
Validating Models of Adversary Behavior	Jun Zhuang	July, 2012 to December, 2013
Extremist Pathways to Power: The Rise of Extremist Ideologies to State Dogma	Amy Pate, Gary Ackerman, John Sawyer	May, 2013 to October, 2013
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul	Stevan Weine	August, 2010 to August, 2012
Turning to Terrorism: Ethnic, Religious, and Extremist Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal	June, 2008 to December, 2011
Understanding and Combating Mass Casualty Terrorism (MCT)	Gary Ackerman, Victor Asal	June, 2008 to December, 2011
Big, Allied, Dangerous, and Charitable?	R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	June, 2009 to October, 2011
United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), 1990-2010	Joshua Freilich, Roberta Belli, Steven Chermak	June, 2008 to October, 2011
Terrorism and Violence in Colombia	Enrique Arias	June, 2009 to May, 2011
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in Muslim Countries and in the United Kingdom	Clark McCauley	June, 2008 to May, 2011
Tracking Sympathy and Support of Muslims for Terrorism in the United States	Clark McCauley	June, 2008 to May, 2011
Measuring Political Radicalization: Diaspora Support for Terrorism among Ottawa's Lebanese Muslim Community	Bidisha Biswas, Christian Leuprecht, Clark McCauley	August, 2008 to May, 2010
Key Dimensions in Understanding Terrorist Bomb Attacks	Margaret Wilson	June, 2008 to May, 2010
Relationships among Terrorism-Using Groups, Supporters, Constituencies, Target Groups, and General Populations	Clark McCauley	January, 2009 to December, 2009
Cell Groups and Individual Radicalization in Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the United States	Douglas M. McLeod	June, 2008 to December, 2009
More Bang for the Buck?: Examining the Effect of Technological Change on Terrorist Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction	Gary Ackerman, Jeffrey Bale	July, 2005 to September, 2009
Social Network Analysis for Combating Terrorist Networks	Alan Neustadtl, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	June, 2006 to June, 2009
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami: The Challenge of a Non-Violent Radical Islam	Clark McCauley, Emmanuel Karagiannis	June, 2005 to June, 2009
Distinctive Characteristics of Terrorist Groups	Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	January, 2005 to June, 2009
The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims in Indonesia	Douglas M. McLeod	June, 2007 to May, 2009
The Use of Violence by Ethnopolitical Organizations	Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Victor Asal	June, 2005 to May, 2009
Terrorist Strategies and Tactics: When Do Terrorists Decide to Attack the US?	Martha Crenshaw	May, 2005 to May, 2009
Understanding Desistance from Terrorism	Clark McCauley	May, 2005 to May, 2009
Support for Terrorism as a Function of Individualistic and Collectivistic Goals	Arie Kruglanski	June, 2005 to January, 2009
Terrorist Groups and Weapons of Mass Destruction	Gary Ackerman, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Victor Asal	July, 2005 to May, 2008
Developing Community Resilience for Children and Families	Betty Pfefferbaum, Fran Norris	June, 2005 to May, 2008
Militant Islamist Networks in the West	Jeffrey Bale	July, 2005 to April, 2008

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
"I'm down for a Jihad": How 100 Years of Gang Research can Inform the Study of Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism	February 2015	Pyrooz, David C.; Decker, Scott H.	Journal Article
A Comprehensive Application of Rational Choice Theory: How Costs Imposed by, and Benefits Derived from, the U.S. Federal Government Affect Incidents Perpetrated by the Radical Eco-Movement	August 2019		Journal Article
A Tale of Two Caliphates: Al-Qaida and its Associated Movement vs. the Islamic State and its Associated Movement	September 2015	Braniff, William	Presentation
An Analysis of Violent Nonstate Actor Organizational Lethality and Network Co-Evoluation in the Middle East and North Africa	February 2016	Young, Joseph; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Anger or Ability: Arguing the Causes of Rebellion	February 2013	Sin, Steve; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Application of a Profile Similarity Methodology for Identifying Terrorist Groups That Use or Pursue CBRN Weapons	September 2017	Ackerman, Gary; Milward, H. Brinton; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Breiger, Ronald; Asal, Victor	Book Chapter
Applying an Organizational Framework to Examine Jihadi Organizations as an Industry	October 2017	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Assessing the Terrorist Threat: Impact of the Group's Organizational Design?	October 2015		Journal Article
Bargaining On and Off the Battlefield: The Bargaining Model of War and Negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	August 2019	Koven, Barnett S.; Erdemandi, Max; Gabriel, Rachel	START Reports
Bibliography: Genocide (since 1980) Part 1	April 2015	Schmid, Alex	Report
Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD)	September 2013	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Project Fact Sheet
Big, Allied And Dangerous (BAAD) Fact Sheet	October 2015	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Project Fact Sheet
Boko Haram: An Assessment of Strengths, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Options	January 2015	Pate, Amy	START Reports
Building Bridges: Social Movements and Civil Society in Times of Crisis	March 2020	della Porta, Donatella	Journal Article
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St.Paul	August 2012	Weine, Stevan	START Reports
Building Resilience to Violent Extremism Among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St.Paul Handout	May 2012	Weine, Stevan	Research Brief
Building Terrorism from Social Ties: The Dark Side of Social Capital	February 2015	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Circles Drawing Toward High Risk Activism: The Use of Usroh and Halaqa in Islamist Radical Movements	May 2008	McLeod, Douglas	Journal Article
Community and Family Approaches to Combating the Radicalization and Recruitment of Somali-American Youth and Young Adults: A Psychosocial Perspective	November 2009	Horgan, John; Weine, Stevan	Journal Article
Configuring Legitmacy: A Framework fo Legitimation in Armed Conflict	April 2014	Asal, Victor	Book
Crime, Conflict, and the Legitimacy Trade-Off: Explaining Variation in Insurgents’ Participation in Crime	February 2019	Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Cumulative Disruptions: Interdependency and Commitment Escalation as Mechanisms of Illicit Network Failure	September 2020	Behlendorf, Brandon	Journal Article
Days of Rage: Introducing the NAVCO 3.0 Dataset	April 2018	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
De-constituting al-Qa’ida: CCO theory and the decline and dissolution of hidden organizations	September 2017	Bean, Hamilton	Journal Article
Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Colombia, 2002-present	December 2016	Koven, Barnett	Research Brief
Destruction Through Collaboration: How Terrorists Work Together Toward Malevolent Innovation	January 2018	Ligon, Gina Scott	Book Chapter
Discussion Point: Communities on the Front Lines Against Terrorism	May 2015	Beutel, Alejandro	Discussion Point
Discussion Point: Insider Threat in the Aviation Industry	April 2015	Davenport, Cory; Tinsley, Herbert	Discussion Point
Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity	January 2015	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Ethnicity and Altruism after Violence: The Contact Hypothesis in Kosovo	October 2014	Mironova, Vera	Journal Article
Examining the Effect of Repressive and Conciliatory Government Actions on Terrorism Activity in Israel	May 2015	Parkin, William	Journal Article
Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences	September 2013	Crenshaw, Martha	Book
Exploring Behavioral Regions in Agents' Mental Maps	August 2015		Journal Article
Fled or Expelled: Representation of Israeli-Arab Conflict	November 2009	McCauley, Clark	Book Chapter
Fratricidal Jihadists: Why Islamists Keep Losing their Civil Wars	May 2018	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Fratricide in Rebel Movements: A Network Analysis of Syrian Militant Infighting	January 2019	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us	January 2011	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Book
From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists: Human Resources of Non State Armed Groups	May 2019	Mironova, Vera	Book
From WWI to ISIS, Using Shame and Masculinity in Recruitment Narratives	June 2016	Beutel, Alejandro	Discussion Point
Group Desistance from Terrorism: A Dynamic Perspective	November 2009	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
Hezbollah's Social Jihad: Nonprofits as Resistance Organizations	June 2009	Flanigan, Shawn	Journal Article
Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings	June 2018	Breiger, Ronald	Journal Article
Introducing Terrorist Archetypes: Using Terrorist Objectives and Behavior to Predict New, Complex, and Changing Threats	December 2016	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Introducing the Special Issue on New Directions in Terrorism Research	May 2015	Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
Is Islamist Terrorism More Dangerous?: An Empirical Study of Group Ideology, Organization and Goal Structure	January 2009	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
ISIL: Branding, Leadership Culture and Lethal Attraction	November 2014	Ligon, Gina Scott; Simi, Peter	START Reports
Islamist Terrorism, Diaspora Links and Casualty Rates	October 2019	LaFree, Gary; Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Killing the Messenger: Regime Type as a Determinant of Journalist Killing, 1992-2008	March 2016	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Know Thy Enemy: Education About Terrorism Improves Social Attitudes Toward Terrorists	March 2017	Krause, Peter	Journal Article
Leadership protection in drug-trafficking networks	February 2015	Hofmann, David	Journal Article
Leaving Terrorism Behind: Individual and Collective Disengagement	February 2009	Horgan, John	Conference Paper
Making Ends Meet: Combining Organizational Data in Contentious Politics	October 2014	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Malevolent Innovation: Novelty and Effectiveness in Terror Attacks	April 2019	Ligon, Gina Scott	White Paper
Measuring Tactical Innovation in Terrorist Attacks	July 2019	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism	July 2008	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Journal Article
Modalities of National Sovereignty: Territorial Nationalism versus Islamic Fundamentalism in Muslim-Majority Countries	April 2014	Moaddel, Mansoor	Report
New Framework That Uses Patterns and Relations to Understand Terrorist Behaviors	February 2017	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
NGO Intervention in Jihadist Conflicts: A Closer Look at Afghanistan and Somalia	February 2019	Hodwitz, Omi	Journal Article
Not My Brother’s Keeper: Factional Infighting in Armed Islamist Movements	November 2019	Hafez, Mohammed	Journal Article
Organizational and Institutional Approaches: Social Movement Studies Perspectives on Political Violence	May 2019	della Porta, Donatella	Book Chapter
Political Action as a Function of Grievances, Risk, and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach	October 2018	Lemieux, Anthony; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Political Islam and Social Movement Theory: The Case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Kyrgyzstan	February 2005	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Political Islam in Southern Kazakhstan: Hizb ut-Tahrir	January 2006	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Political Islam in Uzbekistan: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami	February 2006	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Political Mobilization and Institutions	April 2015	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Political, Religious, and Psychological Characteristics of Muslim Protest Marchers in Eight European Cities: Jerusalem Day 2002	December 2005	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism in the United States: Research Highlight	July 2014	Miller, Erin; Smarick, Kathleen	Research Brief
Protestors, Terrorists or Something Else? How to Think about Dissident Groups	October 2019	Young, Joseph	Journal Article
Psychology and Morality of Political Extremists: Evidence from Twitter Language Analysis of Alt-right and Antifa	May 2019	Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio	Journal Article
Putting the “ O ” in VEOs: What makes an organization?	July 2013	Ligon, Gina Scott; Simi, Peter	Journal Article
Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know	June 2020	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	Book
Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Origin-Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of U.S. Muslims	January 2011	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
Regime Type and Terrorist Attacks	May 2015	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East: A Cross-National, Inter-Faith, and Inter-Ethnic Analysis	November 2012	Moaddel, Mansoor	Book
Report: Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Libya, 2014-Present	November 2016	Koven, Barnett S.; Johns, Mila; Gabriel, Rachel	START Reports
Responding to Terrorism? Human Rights Organization Shaming and Terrorist Attacks	September 2015	Deloughery, Kathleen; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Review of Janja Lalich, Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults	March 2005	Bale, Jeffrey	Book Review
Revolution for Breakfast: Intersections of Activism, Service, and Violence in the Black Panther Party’s Community Service Programs	December 2013	Flanigan, Shawn	Book Chapter
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World	September 2018	Gelfand, Michele	Book
Service-Seeking Behavior, Perceptions of Armed Actors, and Preferences Regarding Governance: Evidence from the Palestinian Territories	May 2015	Flanigan, Shawn	Journal Article
Spreading Protests: Changing Paths of Transnationalization of Social Movements	July 2020	della Porta, Donatella	Journal Article
START Annual Meeting 2016: Quick-Fire Presentation - Terrorism and Radicalization	October 2016	Lemieux, Anthony; Koven, Barnett S.; Ackerman, Gary; LaFree, Gary; Ligon, Gina Scott; Horgan, John; Satana, Nil; James, Patrick; Simi, Peter; Breiger, Ronald; Chermak, Steven	Presentation
START Symposium 2015: Extremist Organizations Panel	October 2015		Presentation
State Terrorism Research and Critical Terrorism Studies: An Assessment	January 2014	Crenshaw, Martha	Book Chapter
Statistical Analysis of Event Data Concerning Boko Haram in Nigeria (2009-2013)	January 2015	Stevenson, John	START Reports
Street-level Repression: Protest, Policing, and Dissent in Uganda	July 2020	Behlendorf, Brandon	Journal Article
Structural Differences of Violent Extremist Offenders in Correctional Settings	June 2015	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Sub-state Actors' Threats to International Security: Religious Extremists and Terrorist Groups	March 2019	Joshi, Sharad	Book Chapter
Sudden Desistance from Terrorism: The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and the Justice Comandos of the Armenian Genocide	November 2008	McCauley, Clark; LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Suicide Bombers in Iraq, 2003-2010:Disaggregating Targets Can Reveal Insurgent Motives and Priorities	January 2014		Book Chapter
Survival of the Fittest: Why Terrorist Groups Endure	May 2014	Young, Joseph; Dugan, Laura	Journal Article
Teaching International Crises with Online Simulations: A Case Study of an India-Pakistan Crisis	March 2012	Biswas, Bidisha	Conference Paper
Temporal Sequencing, Incident Sophistication, and Terrorist Outcomes	August 2016	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff	Research Brief
Terrorism and Political Islam: A Desk-Side Reference for Political, Missionary, and Militant Organizations	January 2009	Braniff, William	Book
Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity	June 2014	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Terrorist Group Rivalries and Alliances: Testing Competing Explanations	August 2019	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
Terrorist Group Survival as a Measure of Effectiveness	June 2018	Phillips, Brian	Book Chapter
Terrorist Organizational Dynamics	May 2019	Phillips, Brian	Book Chapter
The Closing of Open Minds: Need for Closure Moderates the Impact of Uncertainty Salience on Outgroup Discrimination	September 2015	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article
The Critical Role of Friends in Networks for Countering Violent Extremism: Toward a Theory of Vicarious Help-Seeking	October 2015	Horgan, John	Journal Article
The Diffusion and Permeability of Political Violence in North and West Africa	May 2019	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
The Essence of Hate and Love	May 2020	McCauley, Clark	Book Chapter
The Evolution of Prosociality and Parochialism After Violence	July 2016	Mironova, Vera	Journal Article
The Future of Nonviolent Resistance	July 2020	Chenoweth, Erica	Journal Article
The Impact of Disasters and Political Violence on Mental Health in Latin America	October 2009	Norris, Fran	Journal Article
The Impact of the Boston Marathon Bombings on Willingness to Cooperate With the Police	April 2016	Adamczyk, Amy; LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
The Impact of the Orlando Mass Shooting on Fear of Victimization and Gun-Purchasing Intentions: Not What One Might Expect	August 2017	Kruglanski, Arie	Journal Article
The Influence of External and Internal Correlates on the Organizational Death of Domestic Far-Right Extremist Groups	May 2015	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The New Face of Political Islam in Central Asia: The Rise of Islamo-democrats	May 2016	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
The Organization and Leadership of Violence	August 2013	Ligon, Gina Scott	Research Brief
The Place of Race in Conservative and Far-Right Movements	January 2015	Yates, Elizabeth	Journal Article
The Politics of Terror	May 2018	Chenoweth, Erica	Book
The Rise and the Fall of the Extreme Right in Europe: Towards an Explanation?	November 2007	Caiani, Manuela	Journal Article
The Role of Entitativity in Perpetuating Cycles of Violence	December 2018	Gelfand, Michele	Journal Article
The Structure of Success: How the Internal Distribution of Power Drives Armed Group Behavior and National Movement Effectiveness	January 2014	Krause, Peter	Journal Article
The Study of Terrorist Leadership: Where Do We Go From Here?	February 2017	Hofmann, David	Journal Article
The Terrorists' Planning Cycle: Patterns of Pre-incident Behaviors	January 2017	Smith, Brent; Damphousse, Kelly; Roberts, Paxton	Book Chapter
The Trust Paradox in Nuclear Smuggling	December 2015	Murauskaite, Egle	Journal Article
To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?	October 2009	Chenoweth, Erica	Book Chapter
Towards a Guide for Constructing and Disseminating Counter-Narratives to Reduce Support for Terrorism	November 2015	Horgan, John	Journal Article
Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action	April 2015		Book
Ukrainian Volunteer Fighters in the Eastern Front: Ideas, Political-Social Norms and Emotions as Mobilization Mechanisms	February 2016	Karagiannis, Emmanuel	Journal Article
Understanding Criminal Networks, Political Order, and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean	November 2009	Arias, Enrique	Book Chapter
Understanding Lone-actor Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis with Violent Hate Crimes and Group-based Terrorism	September 2013	Deloughery, Kathleen; King, Ryan D.; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Violent and Non-Violent Extremism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?	May 2014	Schmid, Alex	Journal Article
Violent Democracies in Latin America	November 2009	Arias, Enrique	Book
Violent Non-State Actors and the Kashmir Conflict	September 2019	Ligon, Gina Scott	White Paper
We are Good Citizens: Post-9/11 Diaspora Mobilization in the United States and Canada	March 2007	Biswas, Bidisha	Conference Paper
What is a terrorist group? Conceptual issues and empirical implications	February 2014	Phillips, Brian	Journal Article
What's special about U.S. Muslims? The war on terrorism as seen by Muslims in the United States, Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan, and Indonesia	January 2008	McCauley, Clark	Journal Article
When Terrorism Works: Explaining Success and Failure Across Varying Targets and Objectives	June 2018	Krause, Peter	Book Chapter
White Demographic Anxiety and Support for Torture of Terrorism Suspects	July 2020	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
Who Is More Violent in Extremist Groups? A Comparison of Leaders and Followers	September 2019	LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Why Do Some Organizations Kill While Others Do Not: An Examination of Middle Eastern Operations	October 2014	Pate, Amy; Asal, Victor	Journal Article

Title	Byline
GRU team gives virtual talk on cartels for National Security Forum	Erin Copland
New report explores steps required to succeed in negotiations with the Afghan Taliban	Erin Copland
Tricia Bacon discusses the history and future of alliances in the global terrorism community	Bianca Carrizal
Conciliatory counterterrorism strategies could limit terrorist groups’ lethality	Jessica Rivinius
ISIL in Libya: A Bayesian Approach to Mapping At-Risk Regions	Douglas I. Zietz, Joshua M. House, Rhys A. Young
New study abroad program in Singapore to focus on CVE and deradicalization	Charlotte Taylor, Rachael Romano
Background Report: Boko Haram Recent Attacks
Researcher Spotlight: Risa Brooks	Laura Walker
Preliminary findings on Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the US
Finding answers in social psychology	Erin O'Brien
Foreign Policy names Erica Chenoweth a top global thinker
Researcher analyzes how community ties impact terrorist groups’ targeting of civilians	Laura Walker
START Newsletter: US beliefs before, after Boston bombings; Terrorist targeting of civilians; Graduate Certificate in Terrorism Analysis
START study examines U.S. attitudes, beliefs before and after the Boston Marathon bombings
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
Violent hate crimes offer insights into lone-actor terrorism	Jessica Rivinius
New Book: European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet
Understanding conflict management in India
New data reveals al-Qaida-linked groups among most active terrorist groups in the world
Database Spotlight: Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB)	Sacha Ginsberg
New report assesses factors related to violent extremism among Somali-Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul
START launches new tool for counterterrorism community
Masculine honor ideology shapes responses to terrorism	Nicholas Munson
START researcher invited to discuss terrorists' motivations	Claire Simon
START seminar lecturer receives top honors
START Researchers Participate in Session on Psychology of Terrorism
Audio Available from "Why Radicalize?" seminar with Jessica Stern
START Responds to White House Report on Preventing Violent Extremism
New START Project to Focus on Extremist Violence in U.S. Counties
Summer Course Offerings
Summer 2011 Research Opportunities: CoMET
START Releases 2010 Update to the Global Terrorism Database
REPORT RELEASE: ICSR/START Report on Prison Radicalisation to be Launched at New York Summit
Today: START Seminar: Why Radicalize? Follow live on Twitter
New Dataset on Ethnically Based Organizations Released
START Announces 2009-10 Terrorism Research Awards
Background Information on Terrorism in India
New START Research Brief: Pathways Towards Radicalization
Terrorist Organization Profile Information now Available through START
START Center Earns Background Report-Year Renewal from DHS
Global Terrorism Database Data Files Now Available through Terrorism and Preparedness Data Resource Center
Applications Now Being Accepted from UMaryland Undergraduates for Terrorism Studies Minor Program
Application information for START 2006-07 Fellowships now available
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06
START Hosts DHS Faculty/Student Research Teams
Secretary Ridge announces creation of terrorism center

Title	Job Title	Institution
Amy Pate	Executive Director & Research Director, START	University of Maryland
Anita Atwell Seate	Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Affiliate Assistant Professor, START	University of Maryland
Anthony Lemieux	Associate Professor of Communication and Lead Researcher of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Program	Georgia State University
Barnett S. Koven	Training Director Near-peer Competition Lead Researcher Counterterrorism Lead Researcher	University of Maryland
Brandon Behlendorf	Assistant Professor, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
Clark McCauley	Professor of Psychology	Bryn Mawr College
Devin Ellis	Policy & Research Program Director, ICONS Project	University of Maryland
Erin Miller	GTD Program Manager, START	University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman	Associate Professor, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
John Sawyer	Director of Strategic Corporate Research Relationships	University of Maryland
Kurt Braddock	Assistant Professor, American University	American University
Marcus A. Boyd	Senior Researcher, GIS, START Director, Graduate Studies, START	University of Maryland
Max Erdemandi	Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition	University of Maryland
Nathan Meehan	Director of Research and Development, Second Sight Training Systems, LLC	Second Sight Training Systems, LLC
Peter Simi	Associate Professor, Chapman University Director, Earl Babbie Research Center	Chapman University
William Braniff	Director, START Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland Editorial Board, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague Research Advisory Board, RESOLVE Network Independent Advisory Committee (IAC), Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) International Advisory Board, Hedayah Center	University of Maryland