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November 22nd, 2007:
ICST Director Horgan speaks about the terrorist mind on Irish national radio

"What does it take for ordinary men and women to take up guns, plant bombs, or strap explosives to their bodies?" ICST Director John Horgan speaks to host Ryan Tubridy about what drives someone to become involved in terrorism. Full Radio Interview (scroll down to Thursday 22nd November to access)

November 16, 2007
ICST forms Research Partnership with Combating Terrorism Center at West Point! CTC

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is designed to arm current and future leaders with the intellectual tools needed to defeat and deter terrorist threats to the United States of America.

November 15, 2007
ICST Listed on European Search Engine: INTUTE

The Intute: Social Sciences offices are based at the University of Bristol and the University of Birmingham. Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists.

November 14, 2007
CST Joins the Principal Partners Network of the ISN!

On November 14, 2007, the ICST joined the Principal Partners Network of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN). Since its launch in 1994, the ISN has worked closely with leading academic institutes, think tanks, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and media organizations, and it continues to foster and expand this global network.

ISN Principal Partners are research institutes and organizations that are either involved in joint projects (e.g. Specialized Networks), training initiatives, or share their academic research and full-text publications with the ISN.

November 1, 2007
New Director of ICST
On November 1, 2007, Dr. John Horgan became the new Director of ICST. Prior to his arrival at Penn State, he was based at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews. Dr. Horgan is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of terrorism, and has published extensively on the area. A Chartered Psychologist, he was awarded his PhD (Applied Psychology) from University College, Cork, in 2000. While based in Ireland, he conducted extensive research on the activities of Irish Republican terrorist movements, and in particular published a series of noted articles on the fundraising operations of the Provisional IRA. He is currently finishing a major research project on disengagement and de-radicalization from terrorism, and his latest book Walking Away from Terrorism: Accounts of Disengagement from Radical and Extremist Movements (NY and London: Routledge, 2008) presents the results of his detailed fieldwork interviews he has conducted in several countries. Dr. Horgan is a member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Terrorism and Political Violence, Terrorism Research, and the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling.

Walking Away from Terrorism (Cass Series on Political Violence) (Routledge; 1 edition, March 31, 2008)

The Psychology of Terrorism (Routledge, 2005, recently translated into Spanish, by Gedisa publishers).

The Future of Terrorism (Frank Cass, 2000, co-edited with Max Taylor)

From Profiles to Pathways: The Road to Recruitment eJournal, USA. May, 2007.

September 10, 2007
WUN National Responses to Terrorism Video Seminars

Getting Into the Minds of Terrorists

Co-convenors: Kevin Murphy (Penn State University) and Frank Gregory (University of Southampton)

Understanding the ways nations and societies respond to terrorism and the threat of terrorism has important implications for the prospects for peace and security in an increasingly dangerous world. This seminar series brings together a group of ten social and behavioral scientists whose work helps us to understand terrorism and the responses of nations and societies to terrorism.

All seminars take place at 5pm BST, 11am US Central, 9am US Pacific and 12 US Eastern.

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Please direct enquires to Elisa Lawson, WUN Development Manager, University of Southampton, email: elisa@soton.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2423.

Other WUN National Responses to Terrorism Video Seminars:

October 22, 2007: The UK Counter Terrorist Strategy.

November 26, 2007: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Analysing political violence in the North Caucasus.

December 10, 2007: Homeland security in the UK: the "lead department" approach in comparative context.

January 21, 2008: Islamists, Revolutionaries, Nationalists: How Strong Their Coalitions?

February 4, 2008: How to Understand and Oppose Terrorism: The Case of Iraq.

March 10, 2008: State policies, political structures and terrorist activities.

February 27, 2007
To the Best of My Knowledge with Dr. Graham Spanier

Roots of Terrorism (View Program)

Frustration, disenfranchisement, poverty-many say that's the root cause of terrorism. What is terrorism? What do terrorists hope to achieve? And how can terrorism be combated? Guests are Kevin Murphy, professor of psychology and director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Penn State and Brian Lynch, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

October 22, 2006
Take Note

Pennsylvania Inside Out: Terror (View Program)

Jim Borgardt, Assoc. Prof. of Physics at Juniata College, discusses how experts in nuclear security believe that the likelihood of an isolated strike using a “dirty bomb” is higher than ever.

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