Social Sciences

Terrorism Studies

Combating Terrorism Center - The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point educates, advises, and conducts research to equip present and future leaders with the intellectual tools necessary to understand the challenges of terrorism and counterterrorism.

Databases

• Global Terrorism Database - The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2016 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 170,000 cases.
• Start - The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism—better known as START—is intended to propel the scientific study of terrorism, counterterrorism and community resilience forward. It collects and disseminates valuable datasets so that academics, analysts, and practitioners can take these objective baselines as their starting point for future analysis and decision-making.
• Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Intelligence Centre - News, exclusive features, detailed reference and an interactive terrorist events database. Login with your westpoint.edu email address.
• War & Terrorism Collection - Browse articles on war and its causes, current events, terrorism, and more.

• Criminal Justice Collection - Browse articles on law, law enforcement, security, terrorism, and more.

Websites

• Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) - The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southeastern and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.

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