News : National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Israeli policies that reward Palestinian efforts to contain violence are more effective than violent crackdowns that punish terrorists and civilians alike, concludes a new University of Maryland-led study analyzing 17 years’ worth of data.

Published in the August issue of the American Sociological Review, the study is the first to...

University of Maryland News
December 11, 2011

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Over the past decade, attacks and plots by homegrown terrorists in the United States have increased, the work of extremists from across the political spectrum - roughly 40 percent of it by so-called 'lone wolf,' non-aligned actors - says an analysis by the National Consortium for...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Basque separatist group ETA has issued what it calls a "definitive cessation of its armed activity" - the seventh ceasefire announced by the organization since 1988, finds a new analysis by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), based at the...

DHS Secretary, Maryland Governor on Federal-State Collaborations
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley will discuss the homeland security architecture in a post 9/11 world, on Oct. 11, 2011 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the University of...