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As a topic of research and training expertise, terrorism has boomed since Sept. 11, 2001. Not coincidentally, the spigot of both government and private funding has been flowing wide open into the field. Thousands of potential sources now claim expertise in terrorism, from academics to think tanks to expert witnesses to for-profit firms that hawk anti-terrorism law enforcement or consumer products. (A Stanford University sociologist put together a research paper on the burgeoning subject—not terrorism, but terrorism experts: “The Rise of the Terrorism Expert: The Emergence of a New Field of Expertise.”) As always, journalists should be aware of the motivations of potential sources. This source list includes the RAND Corporation, the vast California-based nonprofit has one of the world’s largest and most venerable terrorism research divisions, with dozens of experts on staff who can speak to a number of terrorism-related topics. It might be a good place to start in the non-government sector.
The annual H.F. Guggenheim symposium has emerged as a key date on the nation’s calendar of criminal justice events, primarily because it is the only conference that brings together a select audience of journalists, academics, practitioners and policy makers to discuss current issues of criminal justice facing the nation. You are cordially invited to join [...]
Washington, D.C.
Public affairs: (202) 282-8010
www.dhs.gov
This cabinet-level department, created in 2003, includes the Transportation Security Administration, FEMA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection, the Secret Service, Coast Guard and Citizenship and Immigration Services. The webpage includes background information on the department and its security initiatives. The department has 200,000 employees and a 2008 [...]
Officer of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Washington, D.C.
Press Relations:
(202) 647-2492 or (202) 647-1512
www.state.gov/s/ct/
This office produces the government’s annual “Country Reports on Terrorism,” available through the website. Led by a presidential-appointed ambassador, the office says it “coordinates and supports the development and implementation of all U.S. Government policies and programs aimed at countering terrorism overseas.”
St. Mary’s University School of Law
San Antonio
Jeffrey Addicott, director
(210) 431-2219 or (210) 431-2274
terrorismlaw@stmarytx.edu
http://www.stmarytx.edu/ctl/
This research center says it focuses on legal issues associated with antiterrorism and counterterrorism, with emphasis on cyberspace and “information assurance technologies.” The center examines these legal issues with an eye toward achieving “a proper balance between global security and civil justice” in [...]
Alexandria, Va.
Vince Talluci, terrorism specialist
talucci@theiacp.org
(703) 836-6767 Ext. 210
Wendy Balazik, media contact
(703) 836-6767
balazik@theiacp.org
www.theiacp.org
The IACP is the world’s oldest and largest organization of police executives, with more than 20,000 members in nearly 100 countries. In addition to Talluci’s expertise, the organization maintains separate member committees on both homeland security and terrorism.
Global Terrorism Analysis
Washington, DC
Stephen Ulph, senior fellow
(202) 483-8888
pubs@jamestown.org
www.jamestown.org
The Jamestown Foundation, founded in 1984 to promote democracy in totalitarian countries, publishes the Terrorism Monitor, a biweekly journal that focuses on al-Qaeda and terrorism. It provides periodic analysis of a number of terrorism-related issues. The foundations says its mission is “to inform and educate policy makers and [...]
Charles B. Strozier, Director
(212) 237-8432
Terrorism@jjay.cuny.edu
John Jay College of Criminal Justice created this center in 2001, after losing 67 students and alumni in the World Trade Center disaster. The school says the goals of the center “are to study terrorism conceptually in ways that are familiar and appropriate for a university and to identify the practical applications [...]
Oklahoma City
Tamara Pratt, communications director
(405) 278-6307 or (405) 760-2216
www.mipt.org
This non-profit institute was established after the bombing of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. It says, “Those who survived and family members of those lost believed it important to create an Institute to actively engage in research and study, programs and [...]
Terrorism Strategies for Local Law Enforcement
Washington, D.C.
Jerry Murphy, project director
(202) 466-7820
gmurphy@policeforum.org
Craig Fischer, communications director
(202) 454-8332
cfischer@policeforum.org
www.policeforum.org
PERF, a national association of law enforcement executives from large cities, has produced a series of “white papers” to “address local law enforcement’s concerns in preventing and preparing for terrorist acts, even as they maintain their community policing and traditional law [...]
International Center for Terrorism Studies
Jonah Alexander, director
April Calloway, media contact
(703) 525-0770
acalloway@potomacinstitute.org
www.potomacinstitute.org
Established in 1998, this terrorism center is a division of Potomac, a not-for-profit public policy research institute. The center says “modern-day terrorism is widespread, institutionalized, technologically advanced, and global in its consequences. Raising the stakes of this challenge is the proliferation of weapons of mass [...]
Santa Monica, Calif.
Jeffrey Hiday, media contact
(703) 413-1100, x5117 or (310) 451-6913
media@rand.org
www.rand.org
http://www.rand.org/media/experts/policy_areas/homeland_security_and_terrorism/index.html
www.rand.org/pubs/online/terrorism/
This California-based nonprofit has one of the world’s largest and most venerable terrorism research divisions. RAND (its name is derived from “research and development”) was founded 60 years ago, and it has been deeply involved in the study of terrorism since the 1970s. Dozens of [...]
Senior Fellow
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stamford University
Palo Alto, Calif.
(650) 723-0126
crenshaw@stanford.edu
Crenshaw, a longtime professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, is regarded as an expert in political terrorism, having published her first scholarly article on the subject in 1972. She says her current research focuses on suicide attacks, innovation in terrorist campaigns, the distinction between “old” [...]
Executive Director
Investigative Project on Terrorism
Washington, D.C.
(202) 966-5191
stopterror@aol.com
www.investigativeproject.org/
Emerson launched the Investigative Project on Terrorism in 1995, following the broadcast on public television of his award-winning documentary film, “Jihad in America,” which exposed clandestine operations of militant Islamic terrorist groups in America. Emerson is considered an authority on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He is the [...]
Director, International Center for the Study of Terrorism
Penn State University
University Park, Penn.
Susan Mira, staff assistant
(814) 865-5019
smm54@psu.edu
A psychologist, Horgan conducts research on terrorism, particularly on disengagement from terrorist movements. His books include The Psychology of Terrorism (2005) and Walking Away from Terrorism (2008), which includes material from interviews he conducted with former members of radical and [...]
Chairman, ExecutiveAction
Washington, D.C.
(202) 223-4888
http://www.executiveaction.com/nlivingstone
Livingstone is the author of nine books on terrorism, security and foreign policy. He gives frequent speeches on terrorism and says he has published more than 200 articles and appeared on television more than 1,300 times talking about the subject. He describes his firm as “the most unique business solutions and decision-support [...]
Professor of Political Science
University of Chicago
(773) 702-8071
r-paper@uchicago.edu
Pape is regarded as an expert in suicide terrorism and the author of “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.” He is a frequent commentator on the issue in the press and on television.
Professor of International Security Studies
Tufts University
Medford, Mass.
(617) 627-2738
robert.pfaltzgraff@tufts.edu
www.ifpa.org
Pfaltzgraff is a member of U.S. State Department’s International Security Advisory Board, which provides officials with insights and advice on terrorism topics. He is founder and president of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, an independent, nonpartisan organization that conducts research and makes policy recommendations.
Associate Professor of Criminology
University of Baltimore
(410) 837-6086 (office) or (202) 607-5661 (cell)
jross@ubmail.ubalt.edu
www.jeffreyianross.com
Ross, a fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore, counts terrorism, the criminal justice system and prisons among his areas of expertise. He is the author of “Will Terrorism End?,” which traces the history of terrorism [...]
Assistant Dean
University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, Mich.
(734) 763-4404
rprecht@umich.edu
Precht is regarded as an authority on legal issues in prosecuting accused terrorists. He is also an expert in military tribunals for accused terrorists, including “enemy combatants” from Iraq and Afghanistan being detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Precht, who has served as a legal [...]
Associate Professor of Political Science
Emory University
Atlanta
(404) 727-6571
psjt@emory.edu
Taulbee specializes in international relations, law and security policy. His expertise includes areas relating to the legal control of terrorism, the use of mercenaries, the effectiveness of human rights initiatives, the International Criminal Court and the use of non-conventional defense strategies. He says he can off “big picture” overviews [...]
