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September 10, 2007 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. Download Presentation (PPT) View Quicktime Video Presentation (1 hour) 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. Download powerpoint presentation (9.1 mb) View
archived webcast in Quicktime November 26, 2007: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Analysing political violence in the North Caucasus. View
archived webcast in Quicktime December 10, 2007: Homeland security in the UK: the "lead department" approach in comparative context. View
archived webcast in Quicktime January 21, 2008: Islamists, Revolutionaries, Nationalists: How Strong Their Coalitions? View archived webcast in Quicktime (Not Available
at this time) February 4, 2008: How to Understand and Oppose Terrorism: The Case of Iraq. March 10, 2008: State policies, political structures and terrorist activities
Advanced Research Workshop - The Psychology of Terrorism An Advanced Research Workshop was held on the Pennsylvania State University Campus (October 7-9), bringing together thirteen of the top researchers in the world (representing the US, UK, Israel and Singapore) who produced a set of documents describing the state of our knowledge in the psychology of terrorism, and identifying top research needs and priorities for the future. This workshop included a public dissemination session attended by representatives of the Office of Naval Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, FBI, Economic and Social Research Council, the PS. Office of Homeland Security and the London Metropolitan Police. Webcasts of this event are being prepared and will soon be added to the ICST Website. The principal outcomes of this workshop are summarized in this Workshop Powerpoint. Personality domain approach to public symptom reporting in bioterrorist events: an agent-based simulation approach - University of Pittsburgh This project will be simulate of the effects of personality, age, ethnicity, race socioeconomic status and gender on reporting potential illness to a response facility, based upon models and parameters estimated from the social science and public health literature. The impact of fear of contagion on avoiding ‘infected’ response facilities, the impact of media alerts to symptom complexes (transient increase help-seeking), the impact of infection of person in close proximity and self-arousal by information-seeking behavior will also be included in the simulation (Project status – funded, project starts 9/06). Terrorism and Security Researcher Database The combined efforts of researchers at University of Bristol and Pennsylvania State University has led to the creation of a global database of social and behavioral science researchers who work on, or whose work is directly relevant to terrorism. The database, which currently includes over 500 researchers and research groups, was created by reviewing public-domain records and databases. Researchers who would like to be added to the database, or who would like to have their entries removed or revised should contact Kevin Murphy, Director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism. The database may be downloaded here in the form of an Excel workbook. Development of Geographic and Information Visualization Tools for Analyzing Terrorism Databases - Pennsylvania State University and International Policy Institute for Counter-terrorism. The primary goal of this research is to develop visual analytics tools that are based upon expert knowledge of terrorism and terrorism databases, and use them to represent the spatial, temporal and thematic contexts that are most useful for understanding terrorism data. These tools can be uses to aid in assembling relevant information about terrorism, and to generate and evaluate competing hypotheses against assembled evidence (Project Status – pending funding).
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