The UN Secretary-General will host a symposium on International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation today, Monday 19 September.
From UN Pulse: Permanent Link: Symposium on International Counter-Terrorism Cooperation9/11 Information Center.
in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11
ebrary is offering free full text access to a collection of eBooks during September 2011. Titles include;
War on Terror and American Popular Culture: September 11 and Beyond,
Andrew Schopp & Matthew B. Hill, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press, 2009
Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council Staff, National Academies Press, 2002
The site is searchable by subject keyword.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/2110/combating_terrorism_in_the_
This site provides free access to the full text of a report by Debbie West for Program on Intrastate Conflict, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 2005. The 38 page document reviews the situation and impact on international security in Djibouti; Eritrea Ethiopia; Kenya; Somalia and Somaliland; The Sudan and Yemen.From Intute.ac.ukYemen and stability in the Persian Gulf: confronting the threat from within
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=194
This site provides free access to the full text of a pamphlet by Dr. Stephen C. Pelletiere. which was published in 1996 by the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. The 44 page report focuses attention on the growing importance of Yemen for security in the Persian Gulf. It suggests ways in which the situation could be eased by USD foreign policy initiatives.
Al-Qa'ida, tribes and instability in Yemen
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/PublicationPop.asp?pid=1192
This site provides free access to a working paper by Sarah Phillips and Rodger Shanahan which was published by the Lowy Institute in November 2009. The 14 page paper discusses the emergence of Al-Qaeda in Yemen and its possible impact on international security and terrorism. The full text requires registration to download.
Yemen: Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/region/416/yemen.html
This website is maintained by US foreign policy research institute the Council on Foreign relations. It provides free access to statements, opinions, analyses and reports relating to Yemen which it has published since 2005. These cover international security, terrorism and American foreign policy towards the region.
Yemen: fear of failure
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/677/
This site provides free access to the full text of a briefing paper by Briefing Paper Ginny Hill which was published by Chatham House in November 2008. The 12 page paper considers issues relating to Yemen, international security and the threat of terrorism.
Yemen Forum
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/research/middle_east/current_projects/yemen/
This site provides information on a project launched by UK think tank Chatham House to study issues relating to stability and development in relation to Yemen. This includes coverage of political stability, international security, terrorism and Yemen. Users may access information on the project, plus full text articles, reports and papers published by it and Chatham House staff since approximately 2005.
Yemen: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
This
site is maintained by research body the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. This section provides free access to its materials relating to Yemen. These
include full text press releases, papers, reports and materials from events.
They include discussion of Yemen
political reform, Islam and politics in the Arab world, international security
and terrorism.
http://carnegieendowment.org/regions/?fa=list&id=219
This
site provides free access to a policy briefing by Andrew M. Exum and Richard
Fontaine which was published by the Center for a new American Security in
November 2009. The 7 page report provides an assessment of the threat to
international security from Yemen.
It includes coverage of links to terrorism and Al-Qaeda.
http://www.cnas.org/node/3771
This site is maintained by the Guardian newspaper. It provides free access to the latest news stories, headlines, comment and analysis (including blog postings) about Yemen from Guardian newspaper staff. Topics covered include international security, terrorism, political reform, Islam and politics and the links between Yemen and international terrorism. The main emphasis is upon current news.
The UNDOC Annual Report 2009 provides an overview of what the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is doing to help Member States address the threat posed by drugs, crime and terrorism. The report demonstrates that, in an unstable world, the information and expertise provided by UNODC are in high demand (full-text, pdf).
UN Pulse : Permanent Link: UNDOC Annual report 2009
Somalia: Understanding Al-Shabaab
Summary
On 8 May 2009, Al-Shabaab reinforced by a faction of Hizbul Islam and former Islamic Courts Union’s (ICU) leader Sheikh Aweys began what they claimed was a final assault on the capital Mogadishu in an attempt to destroy President Sheikh Sharif’s fragile National Unity Government. A wave of targeted assassinations of ICU officials and Al-Shabaab commanders in mid-April onwards, the reshuffling of military and political alliances among Islamist factions and inflammatory rhetoric that has led to a polarization of political positions has all but eliminated prospects for reconciliation between the government and the opposition.
Date issued: 3 June 2009
Author: Paula Cristina Roque
Contact: phandy@issafrica.org
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA)
The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was founded in 1996. It is
based in Sri Lanka and seeks to strengthen civil society and engage in
conflict resolution in the region. Its main areas of expertise are:
Legal and Constitutional reform , Media monitoring, Conflict and Peace
building, election monitoring. Its website provides detailed
information on the aims of the organisation and its work. It includes
free access to recent press releases, plus articles, speeches, data
from public opinion poll surveys and full-text research papers. These
include materials relating to the Sri Lanka civil war, Tamil Tigers
and election monitoring reports from Centre for Monitoring Election
Violence (CMEV), the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Coalition
Against Political Violence. Most materials are from 2004 to date.
http://www.cpalanka.org
Sri Lanka : Human Security Gateway resources
The Human Security gateway is a joint project of the Human Security
report project and School for International Studies at Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver. It aims to provide researchers with a searchable
database of links to key websites, full-text reports, journal articles,
news items and fact sheets relating to human security worldwide. Human
security is defined as the protection of individuals from wars, civil
wars and violence. It website enables users to search or browse by
country or topic. Topics covered include: peace keeping operations,
children and armed conflict, international humanitarian law, gender and
security and refugees. Each resource has an added description of
content. The section on Sri Lanka includes papers relating to the civil
war, peace negotiations with the Tamil Tigers and human rights situation.
http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/browse.php?By=REGION&Selection=155
TamilNet
TamilNet is a news service which reports on issues relating to the Tamil people of Sri lanka. It includes extensive coverage of the Sri Lankan civil war, ethnic conflict and peace negotiations from a Tamil
perspective. Other key areas include: economic, political and social
development in Sri Lanka.The site includes recent and archived news
stories (dating from 1997 onwards), maps of Sri Lanka, photographs and
political cartoons.
http://www.tamilnet.com
Peace Secretariat of the Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam
This is a body of the Tamil Tigers which supports the political aims of the Tamil Tigers
and seeks to support the ceasefire in the civil war in Sri Lanka. The
website provides information on the aims, organisations and activities
of the body. It includes press releases and speeches from Tamil leaders. Also included are news stories and background on the civil war from a Tamil perspective. Most are archived from 2003 onwards.
http://www.ltteps.org/
The Lessons of Mumbai
Source: RAND Corporation
This study of the Mumbai, India, terrorist attack of November 2008 identifies the operational and tactical capabilities displayed by the terrorists and evaluates the response of the Indian security forces. The authors draw out the implications of the incident for India, Pakistan, and the international community and derive lessons learned from the attack and from the Indian response. Their goal is to develop findings that may help counterterrorism authorities in India and elsewhere to prepare for or counter future terrorist attacks on urban centers. From: Docuticker
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HAMAS and Israel: Conflicting Strategies of Group-Based Politics
Source: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Efforts to separate HAMAS from its popular support and network of social and charitable organizations have not been effective in destroying the organization, nor in eradicating the will to resist among a fairly large segment of the Palestinian population. It is important to consider this Islamist movement in the context of a region-wide phenomenon of similar movements with local goals, which can be persuaded to relinquish violence or which could become more violent. Certainly an orientation to HAMAS and its base must be factored into new and more practical and effective approaches to peacemaking in the region. At the same time, HAMAS offers a fascinating glimpse of the dynamics of strategic reactions and the modification of Israeli impulses towards aggressive deterrence, as well as the evolution in the Islamist movements’ planning and operations. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict bears similarities to a long-standing civil conflict, even as it has sparked inter-Palestinian hostilities in its most recent phase.
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Rote Armee Fraktion - documents
This collection of over 1,500 digitised documents was produced by
labour.history.net, part of the International Association of Labour
History Institutions (IALHI) in Amsterdam. The Rote Armee Fraktion was
a left-wing urban guerilla group in West Germany, active from the 1970s
until the 1990s. In its early stages, it was known as the Baader
Meinhof group. It carried out several bomb attacks and various
protests. As well as original documents, there is a a bibliography, a
chronology of events, a list of the main RAF-related collections at
archives and libraries, and a list of the Stammheim prisoners' library.
The aim of the website is to present the documents in their original
form, but to have a neutral stance towards the group's political views.
http://labourhistory.net/raf/index.php
Who were the Baader Meinhof Gang? (BBC)
This interesting page, from the BBC News website, explains who this
notorious German group were. They were active in West Germany from the
1970s, carrying out a serious of actions which shocked German society.
"Born from the radical student movement of that period, the RAF
comprised mainly middle-class youngsters who saw themselves as fighting
a West German capitalist establishment which they apparently believed
was little more than a reincarnation of the Third Reich." There are
links to related Web pages on Germany and the group's history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314559.stm
Baader-Meinhof.com
This useful resource is produced by author Richard Huffman, who is an
authority on the Baader-Meinhof group and has been interviewed by TV
stations such as the BBC and CNN. He lived in Berlin during the early
1970s. There is a list of members of the group and who they were and a
timeline of the main events involving the group. Some video footage is
available, including interviews with the group's members. NB. Some
materials are only in German. Also available are a glossary of terms
relating to this period in West German history, You can find further
links to other websites. The author does not support the group's
political views.
http://www.baader-meinhof.com/
Intute.ac.uk
Serial Blasts: India on the Edge
Description:
Collection of news and analysis about terrorist
activities in India, with an emphasis on the November 26, 2008,
terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Topics addressed include the Indian
government's decision to establish a Federal Investigation Agency
(FIA), which may have trained the Mumbai attackers, and other disasters
that occurred in India on the 26th of the month. From the Times of
India.
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/specialcoverage/3296778.cms
India Terrorism by the Numbers: Statistics From UM's Global Terrorism Database
This November 2008 press release provides a statistical summary of terrorism in India from 1970 through 2004, noting that over 4,000 terrorist incidents with over 12,000 fatalities occurred in India during that period. Includes a link to the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) from which the material is drawn and to Terrorist Organization Profiles, which "includes information on 56 groups known to have engaged in terrorism in India." From the University of Maryland (UM).
URL: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/sociss/release.cfm?ArticleID=1797
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UN Pulse Permanent Link: Human Rights, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Human Security Brief 2007
Source: Human Security Report Project
From press release (PDF; 482 KB):
Challenging the expert consensus that the threat of global terrorism is increasing, a new report from the Canadian research team that produced the much-cited Human Security Report in 2005, reveals a sharp net decline in the incidence of terrorist violence around the world.
The Human Security Brief 2007 demonstrates that:
- Fatalities from terrorism have declined by some 40 percent, while the loose-knit terror network associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda has suffered a dramatic collapse in popular support throughout the Muslim world.
- There has been an extraordinary, but largely unnoticed, positive change in sub-Saharan Africa's security landscape. The number of conflicts being waged in the region more than halved between 1999 and 2006; the combat toll dropped by 98 percent.
- The decline in the total number of armed conflicts and combat deaths around the world that was reported three years ago in Human Security Report 2005 has continued.
The Brief was produced by the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) research team at Simon Fraser University's School for International Studies in Vancouver, Canada. The HSRP's research is supported by the governments of Canada, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland and the UK.
Download in sections or as full document (PDF; 1.7 MB).
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Comparing Alternative U.S. Counterterrorism Strategies: Can Assumption-Based Planning Help Elevate the Debate?
Source: RAND Corporation
The United States faces the challenge of countering the terrorism threat. Frequently, both expert decisionmakers and lay citizens have trouble assessing alternative strategies to address such issues because of the emotions they engender and of the deep uncertainty involved. RAND has a long history of developing and employing methods for addressing such questions and distilling complex policy problems into their essential trade-offs. One such approach, assumption-based planning (ABP), focuses on identifying and addressing the key assumptions and thus the key vulnerabilities underlying an organization’s plans. ABP not only offers a qualitative approach widely useful in its own right but has also provided the foundation for a family of new quantitative methods that aim to improve strategic decisionmaking under the conditions of deep uncertainty that are characteristic of the terrorism threat. Can ABP help contentious groups more systematically debate alternative U.S. counterterrorism strategies? This briefing reports on two sets of workshops that attempted to do just that.
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The Carter Center
The Center "is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health." Includes Center news; a FAQ; history of the Center; and profiles of President Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, and other directors. Also describes the Center's global peace and health programs. Click on an interactive world map to locate the Center's activities by country.
URL: http://www.cartercenter.org/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6982
The Weather Underground
Companion website to this PBS Independent Lens documentary about the Weather Underground (Weathermen), "one of America's most notorious radical movements" during the Vietnam War. Features background about the group and its actions (including "bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding"), an interview with Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and related material.
URL: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/
LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25975
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Al-Qaeda Media Nexus: The Virtual Network Behind the Global Message (PDF; 2.2 MB)
Source: Radio Free Europe
Key Findings
+ The ”original” Al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden accounts for a mere fraction of jihadist media production.
+ Virtual media production and distribution entities (MPDEs) link varied groups under the general ideological rubric of the global jihadist movement. The same media entities that “brand” jihadist media also create virtual links between the various armed groups that fall into the general category of Al-Qaeda and affiliated movements.
+ Three key entities connect Al-Qaeda and affiliated movements to the outside world through the internet. These three media entities — Fajr, the Global Islamic Media Front, and Sahab — receive materials from more than one armed group and post those materials to the internet.
+ Information operations intended to disrupt or undermine the effectiveness of jihadist media can and should target the media entities that brand these media and act as the virtual connective tissue of the global movement.
+ While video is an important component of jihadist media, text products comprise the bulk of the daily media flow. Within text products, periodicals focused on specific “fronts” of the jihad are an important genre that deserves more attention from researchers.
+ The vast majority of jihadist media products focus on conflict zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
+ The priorities of the global jihadist movement, as represented by its media arm, are operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Africa.
+ Jihadist media are attempting to mimic a “traditional” structure in order to boost credibility and facilitate message control. While conventional wisdom holds that jihadist media have been quick to exploit technological innovations to advance their cause, they are moving toward a more structured approach based on consistent branding and quasi-official media entities. Their reasons for doing so appear to be a desire to boost the credibility of their products and ensure message control.
+ In line with this strategy, the daily flow of jihadist media that appears on the internet is consistently and systematically branded.
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Iran, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Source: The Brookings Institution
Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been one of the world’s most active sponsors of terrorism. Tehran has armed, trained, financed, inspired, organized, and otherwise supported dozens of violent groups over the years. Iran has backed not only groups in its Persian Gulf neighborhood, but also terrorists and radicals in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Bosnia, the Philippines, and elsewhere. This support remains strong even today: the U.S. government regularly contends that Iran is tied to an array of radical groups in Iraq.
Yet despite Iran’s very real support for terrorism for more than the last 25 years and its possession of chemical weapons for over 15 years, Tehran has not transferred unconventional systems to terrorists. Iran is likely to continue this restraint and not transfer chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons for several reasons. First, providing terrorists with such unconventional weapons offers Iran few tactical advantages as these groups are able to operate effectively with existing methods and weapons. Second, Iran has become more cautious in its backing of terrorists in recent years. And third, it is highly aware that any major escalation in its support for terrorism would incur U.S. wrath and international condemnation.
This article begins by reviewing how Iran has used terrorism in the past and how this has changed over the years. The article then assesses U.S. attempts to press Iran with regard to terrorism and why they have met with little success. With this assessment in mind, the article argues that, while the author believes Iranian terrorism remains a threat, Tehran is not likely to pass chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons to terrorists. The article concludes with recommendations for decreasing Iran’s use of terrorism in general and the chances of it transferring chemical or other unconventional weapons to terrorists in particular.
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Pakistan and the War on Terror: Conflicted Goals, Compromised Performance
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The United States must shift its counterterrorism policy towards Pakistan away from a reciprocal approach—requiring Islamabad to perform desirable actions to receive support—towards one encouraging Pakistan to enact effective counterterrorism policies, not for an immediate payoff, but to strengthen institutionalized trust with the U.S. over time, according to a new report from the Carnegie Endowment.
In Pakistan and the War on Terror: Conflicted Goals, Compromised Performance, Carnegie Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis points to growing dissatisfaction in the United States with the Musharraf regime’s commitment to counterterrorism operations, given the influx of U.S. aid. But while Pakistan’s performance in the “war on terror” has fallen short of expectations, Islamabad’s inability to defeat terrorist groups cannot simply be explained by neglect or lack of motivation. U.S. policy makers must take into account the specific and complex counterterrorism challenges facing Pakistan and move away from their current unsustainable policies.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has released a reference manual that details how to prevent, detect, and respond to an incidence of nuclear terrorism. Combating Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear and Other Radioactive Material serves as a how-to booklet on several topics related to criminal acts involving nuclear and radioactive material. The manual is composed of four sections, containing:
Discussion of the nature of the threat posed by illicit acts utilizing nuclear and radioactive material, along with an outline of policy and legal frameworks currently in place to hinder such an act; Review of international steps being taken to counter the threat; Primer on radioactive material, the public health risks associated with exposure to radiation, and information on current applications and transport issues involving radioactive material; and Advisory text on how countries can prevent, detect and confront a possible threat. Permanent Link: Advisory Guide to Address Nuclear Terror Threat UN Pulse
How We Talk about the “War on Terrorism”
Source: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
The Working Paper How We Talk about the “War on Terrorism” by Daniel Heradstveit, G. Matthew Bonham, Michiko Nakano and Victor M. Sergeev, focuses on how leaders in Western countries talk about the “war on terrorism.” The paper discusses the difficulties of defining “terrorism,” because, unlike Marxism or capitalism, “terrorism” is not an ideology. Instead the term may be used to designate actions that are used by members of non-governmental organizations against civilian targets.
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Engineers of Jihad (PDF; 447 KB)
Source: Oxford University, Department of Sociology Working Papers
We find that graduates from subjects such as science, engineering, and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements in the Muslim world, though not among the extremist Islamic groups which have emerged in Western countries more recently. We also find that engineers alone are strongly over-represented among graduates in violent groups in both realms. This is all the more puzzling for engineers are virtually absent from left-wing violent extremists and only present rather than over-represented among right-wing extremists. We consider four hypotheses that could explain this pattern. Is the engineers’ prominence among violent Islamists an accident of history amplified through network links, or do their technical skills make them attractive recruits? Do engineers have a ‘mindset’ that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism, or is their vigorous radicalization explained by the social conditions they endured in Islamic countries? We argue that the interaction between the last two causes is the most plausible explanation of our findings, casting a new light on the sources of Islamic extremism and grounding macro theories of radicalization in a micro-level perspective.
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Rays of Sunlight in a Shadow “War”: FOIA, the Abuses of Anti-Terrorism, and the Strategy of Transparency
Source: Scholarship at Penn Law
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the “Global War on Terror” has marginalized the rule of law. From the dragnet detentions in the aftermath of the initial attacks, to novel and secretive surveillance authority under the Patriot Act, to the incarceration and torture of “enemy combatants,” the administration’s “war” has sought to establish zones of maneuver free of both legal constraint and of political oversight. In the first half decade of these efforts, the tripartite constitutional structure which is said to guard against executive usurpation remained largely quiescent. Opponents both inside and outside of the government turned instead to subconstitutional structures to expose this self-avowed “dark side,” and to lay the foundation for a return to the rule of law. This Article examines four case studies of this strategy of transparency. At the center of each account lies the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The studies highlight, however, the crucial roles played by a broader complex of structures of transparency that have come to constitute the framework of national governance during the last generation, the importance of the integrity of the civil servants administering those structures, and the fulcrum of sustained advocacy.
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US counter-terrorism and human rights report
Source: JURIST (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
Mission to the United States of America, report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, UN Human Rights Council, October 29, 2007 [calling on the US to quickly prosecute or release terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay so that the US can close the detention center].
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Janes Terrorism and Insurgency Intelligence Centre
A full text library of resources relating to terrorist activity worldwide which is maintained by leading defence and international security database supplier Janes information Group and offered to paying subscribers only. It includes daily news updates; country and terrorist group profiles, case studies of specific incidents and expert analysis of trends. Other features include images and detailed statistical data on terrorist finance. A full list of titles include in the package and pricing details is provided on the publisher's website. From Intute.ac.uk
http://jtic.janes.com
http://www.counterterrorismtraining.gov/
With the growing interest in counter-terrorism training and related resources, it's not surprising that the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs created this site. The site draws on expertise provided by a number of public and private organizations, including the National Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Office for Domestic Preparedness. The site is divided into sections that include "Conferences", "Funding", "Research & Statistics", "Equipment", and "Publications". Scholars who arrive at the site may wish to look at the "Research & Statistics" section first, as it brings together a number of resources in this field, such as aerial photographs, a number of recent FBI reports, and a global terrorism map. Additionally, the "Publications" area contains thematically-organized publications that cover port security, threat assessment, and weapons of mass destruction. [KMG] Scout Report
Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain
Source: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A systematic view of terrorism research to reveal the intellectual structure of the field and empirically discern the distinct set of core researchers, institutional affiliations, publications, and conceptual areas can help us gain a deeper understanding of approaches to terrorism. This paper responds to this need by using an integrated knowledge-mapping framework that we developed to identify the core researchers and knowledge creation approaches in terrorism. The framework uses three types of analysis: (a) basic analysis of scientific output using citation, bibliometric, and social network analyses, (b) content map analysis of large corpora of literature, and (c) co- citation analysis to analyse linkages among pairs of researchers. We applied domain visualization techniques such as content map analysis, block-modeling, and co-citation analysis to the literature and author citation data from the years 1965 to 2003. The data were gathered from ten databases such as the ISI Web of Science. The results reveal: (1) the names of the top 42 core terrorism researchers (e.g., Brian Jenkins, Bruce Hoffman, and Paul Wilkinson) as well as their institutional affiliations; (2) their influential publications; (3) clusters of terrorism researchers who work in similar areas; and (4) that the research focus has shifted from terrorism as a low-intensity conflict to a strategic threat to world powers with increased focus on Osama Bin Laden.
See also: Scientists Use the “Dark Web” to Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online (National Science Foundation)
See also: Analyzing Terror Campaigns on the Internet: Technical Sophistication, Content Richness, and Web Interactivity (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; PDF, 1 MB)
See also: Dark Web Terrorism Research
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ACLU Obtains New Details of Possible "Cover-Up" of Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
Source: American Civil Liberties
Pakistan: "The Taliban's Godfather"? - Documents Detail Years of Pakistani Support for Taliban, Extremists
Source: U.S. National Security Archive
Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat (PDF; 2.11 MB)
Source: The New York City Police Department
[CW's Comment: This report has received considerable criticism in the U.S.]
Iran's Revoltionary Guards, the Al Quds Force, and Other Intelligence and Paramilitary Forces
Source: [U.S.] Center for Strategic & International Studies