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UMD Researchers Develop New Methods to Combat Terrorist Group

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Effectively reducing the likelihood and intensity of attacks by the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the perpetrators of the November 2008 assault on Mumbai, India, requires a cocktail of actions including fostering dissent within LeT, hampering the organization’s ability to conduct communication campaigns or provide social services, and disrupting the links between LeT and other Islamist terror groups, says a new study completed by an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Maryland’s Lab for Computational Cultural Dynamics. Presented at

‘Carrot’ Works Better than ‘Stick’ Against Terror in Israel: UMD-Led Study

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 empirically evaluate the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment strategies as antidotes to terrorism. “There aren’t easy answers to combatting terrorism, but overall, our

UMD Graphene photosensor offers better weapons detectors and telescopes to study the Universe & dark energy

UMD Scientists Trick Graphene to Create Faster, More Sensitive Infrared Photodetector that Appears to Beat All Existing TechnologiesUMD Online version: http://newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=2706 COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Researchers at the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials of the University of Maryland have developed a new type of hot electron bolometer a sensitive detector of infrared light, that can be used in a huge range of applications from detection of chemical and biochemical weapons from a distance and use in security imaging technologies such as airport

Preventing, Reversing Terrorist Radicalization: New Research Initiative

$4.5 Million DoD Grant Funds UMD-Led International ProjectMay 2, 2012 COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A University of Maryland-led team of international experts will investigate ways to understand, prevent and reverse the radicalization of young people in destabilized areas of the world, and to keep them from embracing terror as a political tool. The five year project – one of the most comprehensive empirical investigations to date on radicalization and deradicalization – is funded with a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. “Ultimately, we hope to identify tactics

Growing U.S. Violent Extremism by the Numbers: UMD Database

University of Maryland NewsDecember 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 the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism  (START) based at the University of Maryland. The statistics underscore the threat

Basque Separatist ETA's Complicated Ceasefire Record: Report

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 University of Maryland. "ETA has recently had a tendency to issue ceasefires that are later violated," says Gary LaFree 

Napolitano, O’Malley To Discuss Homeland Security at UMD Forum Oct. 11

DHS Secretary, Maryland Governor on Federal-State CollaborationsCOLLEGE 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 Maryland's Stamp Student Union. STREAMING Watch Live Streaming of the Forum on Oct. 11Here: http://tinyurl.com/5s6bf7fRequires Silverlight plugin 

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