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News
April 13, 2008
"How to defuse a human bomb." (The Boston Globe). John
Horgan's work on terrorist disengagement featured in this recent
"Ideas" special by Drake Bennett on the new global movement
attempting to promote deradicalization from terrorism and extremism.
Subscription may be required. For the full article, click here.
April 9, 2008
CST Director John Horgan, with Dr. Mia M. Bloom (School
of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia - SPIA)
addressed the International Studies Association (ISA)
Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA on March 27. Horgan and Bloom
presented the first ever analysis of the IRA's "proxy bomb"
operations. Despite the notoriety of these particular attacks, their
significance has been relegated to a mere footnote in the study
of terrorism. The focus of Horgan and Bloom's paper is a series
of proxy bomb attacks that took place in October 1990, when the
Provisional IRA kidnapped civilians from their homes and forced
them to drive vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs)
into British Army Checkpoints. The tactic has recently been repeated
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia. For a copy of the presentation,
send an email to John Horgan via the 'Contact Us' tab on the left.
April 1, 2008
EVENT: ICST Director Horgan to speak on "Disengagement
and Deradicalization from Terrorism" at National Consortium
for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
Seminar, University of Maryland, April 15, 2008. For more information,
click here.
March 31, 2008
RESEARCH: ICST Director Horgan featured in Perspectives on Terrorism,
a journal of the Terrorism Research Initiative
Risk Assessment and the
Terrorist (with co-author Dr Karl
Roberts)
"Given the scale of challenges posed by the
threat of terrorism and the perpetually limited resources available
to counter terrorism, there is widespread agreement – if on
nothing else - on the fact that there is an urgent need to find
ways to prioritise the use of those resources. In this research
note we argue that a greater consideration of the role of psychology
in the development of risk assessment procedures may well be a useful
tool to enable such prioritisation in a number of critical areas."
For the full article, click here.
March 18, 2008
ICST Director Horgan featured in Time Magazine
Reverse Radicalism
Serious study of terrorism has, for the past 20 years, been fixated
on one question. That question, so teasingly close to the right
one, is, Why do people join terrorist groups?
The smarter question, the one experts have now
begun to ask, is, Why do people leave terrorist groups? John Horgan,
a Penn State psychologist, has interviewed 28 former terrorists.
For the full story, click here.
February, 2008
ICST Director Horgan featured in Perspective on
Terrorism, a journal of the Terrorism Research Initiative
Deradicalization or Disengagement?
"As a result of the overwhelming preoccupation with
uncovering the process of radicalization into terrorist activity,
little attention has been paid to the related, yet distinct processes
of disengagement and deradicalization from terrorism. This continuing
neglect is ironic because it may be in the analysis of disengagement
that practical initiatives for counterterrorism may become more
apparent in their development and feasible in their execution."
For the full story, click here.
December 1, 2007
ICST Director Horgan and ICST featured in Scientific American Mind
"What makes a terrorist? What can we do
to prevent people from becoming involved? What are the greatest
obstacles to research on the psychology of terrorism?"
The current issue of Scientific American Mind
features an article on the psychology of terrorism, and features
ICST DIrector John Horgan. Subscription may be required. For the
full story, click here.
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