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Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence housed at the University of Maryland, offers a course looking at the who, what and how of Terrorism Studies, by introducing students to cutting-edge research from the social and behavioral sciences and the experts investigating these topics. The course will begin with a unit looking at widely held myths about terrorism and utilizing empirical data to discuss the realities of broad trends and patterns in terrorist attacks over time. The course will then review the psychological factors at play in individual radicalization and recruitment into terrorism, followed by an analysis of terrorist group dynamics. The course will next look at terrorist group operations, including their attacks and some of the supporting behaviors that allow them to carry out attacks, including use of media, financing, recruitment, and training. The course will conclude by looking at the factors that drive terrorist group persistence or endurance versus terrorist group desistance, and will bring the varied course concepts together through a detailed look at the case of Al-Qa’ida. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to study and work with the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database (GTD), the largest database of terrorist incidents in the world, learning its capabilities and developing basic skills in searching and displaying terrorism data.

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Rating 4.5★ based on 68 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Starts Oct 19 (187 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
Instructors Kate Izsak, Dr. Gary LaFree, Bill Braniff, Joyce Rasing
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Language English
Subjects Social Sciences
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society

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great course

A good learning for Urban socio-political Disaster Great Course, the study notes and additional resources are really helpful.

Great course, although some of it was slightly sketchy, particularly what had to do with statistical material.

Great course.

recommended course...thanks for START team... Great Course!!

That's a great course with a lot of updated information about the terrorism in the world.

Great course to build upon existing knowledge of terrorism, media and the impact of terrorism internationally.

Great Course.Well presented excelente me entrego las herramientas necesarias para poder iniciar mi trabajo en el campo designado.

Great Course!

Great course, really enjoyed it.

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university of maryland

Thanks to University of Maryland for such a great adventure.

The course makes use of both a wealth of US wide experts as guest lecturers and active use of the University of Maryland START database.

Questions about technical issues of the course were not answered and solved by the University of Maryland.However, I learned some new things.

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recommend this course

Besides, there is no need of any previous knowledge and by this mean, I recommend this course to everyone generally interested in the issues of terrorism.

I will recommend this course to anyone seeking to expand their knowledge base!

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very good

Very interesting content presented by very good professors .

Outstanding material and great use of the GTD helpfull Very good course, I got a lot out of it.

A very good course in the modern times where there is increased terrorism threat across the globe,, I really enjoyed this course and learned a lot.

Very good information in a very useful way Nowadays, "Understanding Terrorism and the Terrorist Threat" is a big challenge to the humankind.

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well as

It was pivotal to a structured understanding of terrorism basics, the use of terrorist incidents data as well as in particular on getting view into the radicalisation process and dynamics of indidviduals, groups and organisation being involved in terrorism.

I flagged the quiz itself, as well as creating a thread on the discussion boards.

Doctor LaFree and professor Braniff especially, as well as the rest of the participating professors are fantastic.

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Rating 4.5★ based on 68 ratings
Length 7 weeks
Starts Oct 19 (187 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera
Instructors Kate Izsak, Dr. Gary LaFree, Bill Braniff, Joyce Rasing
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Social Sciences
Tags Social Sciences Governance And Society

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