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Actionable Knowledge
The Center is committed to using research to help
individuals, organizations and governments respond effectively and
appropriately to terrorism. All projects undertaken by this Center
are designed to yield knowledge, tools, methods, and policy recommendations
that will contribute to reducing the threat terrorism and to responding
effectively to that threat. For example, research teams who make
up this Center are engaged in studies designed to:
Develop & Disseminate
- Threat warning systems that provide specific,
consistent, accurate and clear information about the threat as
well as guidance about actions individuals should take in response
to the threat
- Training materials for frontline responders,
mental health providers and community agencies involved in providing
emergency and follow-up care.
Develop Computer Systems,
Software & Analytic Methods for
- Performing automated analysis of public information
to be used in forecasting terrorism levels.
- Detecting behavioral patterns and physical
characteristics, such as gait, or facial expression, of suicide
bombers as they approach the target.
Develop Tactics &
Intervention Programs for
- Tracking terrorist communication patterns and
identifying the structural gaps in terrorist networks in order
to target boundary spanners linking diverse cells
- Undermining the confidence of members of terror
groups in the abilities, judgment, and success of their leaders.
- Disrupting the organization of diffused terror
networks
Develop Databases &
Analytic Capabilities for
- Cataloging the actions, decisions and life-cycles
of armed political action groups, including assessments of the
circumstances, interventions and strategies associated with the
demise of these groups.
- Cataloging both historical and real-time data
relevant to the motivations of terrorists, characteristics of
terror attacks, and connections between terrorist organizations.
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