Perspectives on Terrorism

1. Introducing the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS)
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Introducing the Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) by John Wigle For researchers looking for an authoritative data source on terrorist attacks: The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) ...

2. The Global Terrorism Database: Accomplishments and Challenges
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... the research team has continued working to update and validate the data. This paper describes original data collection efforts and the strategies employed to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of ...

3. Book Reviews
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Critical Terrorism Studies. A new research agenda. by Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth and Jeroen Gunning (Eds.). London, and New York, Routledge, 2009. 274 pp. ISBN10:0-415-45507-3 (hbk) 'War ...

4. Understanding al-Qaeda’s Ideology for Counter-Narrative Work
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... of al-Qaeda and its inspired followers.  This article, based on a combination of wide ranging research and front line experience[1], examines the key points in al-Qaeda’s ideology and its narratives which ...

5. Conceptualizing a New School of Political Conflict and Terrorism Studies
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By Will H. Moore and Stephen M. Shellman This essay is written in the midst of the recent calls for social scientists to perform research projects for the US Department of Defense. In that light, ...

6. Accounting For the Waves of International Terrorism
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... research on how ideas actually spread. This article attempts to bridge this important gap by combining recent advances in the fields of business, advertisement and mass communication with research on terrorism. ...

7. Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism
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Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism It is our pleasure to introduce “Under-Investigated Topics in Terrorism Research” - a special issue of Perspectives on Terrorism.This issue is the first in ...

8. Two Neglected Areas of Terrorism Research: Careers after Terrorism and How Terrorists Innovate
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Two Neglected Areas of Terrorism Research: Careers after Terrorism and How Terrorists Innovate By Leonard Weinberg Is it possible there are aspects of terrorism or terrorist violence that have not ...

9. Terrorism Knowledge Base: A Eulogy (2004-2008)
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... those of us who have relied on the TKB for our research, teaching, journalism, analysis, and general reference on terrorism, this knowledge base will be sorely missed.  ...

10. Conceptualising Online Terrorism
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... perceived immediacy and urgency of the problem, research into ‘terrorist use of the Internet’ or ‘terror on the Internet’ has tended to take a ‘hands-on approach’, dealing only quite peremptorily with ...

11. Risk Assessment and the Terrorist
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... is widespread agreement – if on nothing else - on the fact that there is an urgent need to find ways to prioritise the use of those resources. In this research note we argue that a greater consideration ...

12. Openings
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  1. Editorial Assistant (PT) 2. Research Assistants (TRI/PT) 3. Technical Assistant (PT) The Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI) is currently accepting applications for an Editorial Assistant, ...

13. How to Define Terrorism
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... of the threat and how to counteract and resolve it. As a result, terrorism courses, research institutes and certificate programs have been proliferating at universities and other academic institutions ...

14. Deradicalization or Disengagement?
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... research agendas.  ...

15. An Argument for Terrorism
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... many terrorism scholars have given up on the definitional debate and use the term unreflectively; and that such a state of affairs hampers theoretical progress and skews terrorism research in unhelpful ...

16. Islamist Terrorism and the “Pizza Effect”
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... below. Using these frames, the essay argues that research is urgently needed in one area which has so far been almost totally ignored: the impact on young Muslims living in the West, and especially in ...

17. Al-Qaeda’s Propaganda Advantage and How to Counter It
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... review was based on research conducted at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Originally posted on an extremist Internet site, the video was eventually available on Google as well. In response ...

18. Global Poverty, Inequality, and Transnational Terrorism: A Research Note
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Global Poverty, Inequality, and Transnational Terrorism: A Research Note By James A. Piazza Among politicians and political figures within the media and throughout the general public, the idea that ...

19. Greetings and Welcome to Perspectives on Terrorism
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... to present their perspectives on the developing field of terrorism research and scholarship; to present original research and analysis; and to provide a forum for discourse and commentary on related issues. ...

20. Initiative Participants
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... Editor Benjamin Freedman, Editorial Assistant   International Advisory Board of the Terrorism Research Initiative Adam Dolnik is the Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Fellow ...