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Policies that reward abstinence from terrorism are more successful in reducing such acts of violence than tactics that aim to punish terrorists, suggests a new study in the August issue of the American Sociological Review. Titled, "Moving Beyond Deterrence: The Effectiveness of Raising the Expected Utility of Abstaining from Terrorism in Israel," the study looked specifically at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and found that between 1987 and 2004, Israeli policies and actions that...
NEW YORK, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, the organization that built its reputation on hard-fought legal battles and victories against terror sponsors, today sent a letter to worldwide mobile satellite company Inmarsat PLC, warning it against providing prohibited guidance services to Iranian oil tankers and Iranian military vessels. The warning letter stressed that Inmarsat's actions would expose the telecommunications giant to criminal...
MTI terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins' research for MTI validates this scenario. SAN JOSE, Calif., July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Research reports published by the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) have underscored the fact that public transportation is still a seriously vulnerable target for terrorism. This was validated by today's bombing of a Bulgarian bus filled with Israeli tourists who had just arrived at the airport. (Logo:...
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Program today releases its agenda for the third annual forum on homeland security and counterterrorism, the Aspen Security Forum, to be held July 25-28 in Aspen, CO. A full schedule is available on the forum website, www.aspensecurityforum.org. The forum is co-presented by CNN.com's "Security Clearance" and The New York Times. Notable sessions include:*Note: All event times are Mountain Time...
LOS ANGELES, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative visionary, John Schofield, who produced Academy Award-winning films such as Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets, and Ali, has produced the must-see documentary of 2012, Top Priority: The Terror Within (www.topprioritymovie.com), which is premiering at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on May 16, 2012. Top Priority: The Terror Within, a documentary film by Fleur De Lis Film Studios, features the story of Julia Davis, a...
America's ongoing war on terror still requires critical questions and analyses WASHINGTON, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the American Security Project released a collection of essays about the current state of the War on Terror one year after the death of Osama Bin Laden. On May 1st, 2011, Osama Bin Laden was killed during Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The year anniversary of bin Laden's death offers us an opportunity to see where we stand in...
Eight years in development, TRAC combines expertise from nearly 3,000 terrorism specialists with real-time intelligence for authoritative research. Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 28, 2012 Before 9/11 few universities offered courses or programs of study on terror and terrorism; instead the issues were studied in political science or international relations courses. But the dramatic events of that day have forever altered the global need for the scholarly study of the subject – perhaps...
NEW YORK, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC welcomed the UN Security Council statement condemning terror attacks against Israeli diplomatic personnel. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The council acted after the attacks last week in Georgia and India, where the wife of one diplomat was seriously injured in a car bombing. "The Security Council statement is an appropriate and necessary response to what happened last week when Israelis were...
N.Y., L.A., Miami, San Francisco, D.C. Top List; Maricopa, Ariz. Rising Nearly a third of all terrorist attacks from 1970 to 2008 occurred in just five metropolitan U.S. counties, but events continue to occur in rural areas, spurred on by domestic actors, according to a report published today by researchers in the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Center of Excellence based at the...
New report sheds light on the growing threat of terrorist attacks carried out by individuals The double terrorist attack in Norway last July, which claimed 77 lives, has moved violent acts committed by single individuals up the political, media and now research agendas. Known as “lone wolf terrorism,” these acts are carried out independently of established terrorist organizations. In his new report Understanding Lone Wolf Terrorism, Dr. Ramón Spaaij, from La Trobe University in...
