DERADICALIZATION AND ANTI-TERRORISM FOR EXNAPITER CHILDREN

Optimizing anti-terrorism resource allocation

Critical infrastructure, terrorism, and the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards: the need for collaboration

In response to 9/11 and the increasing concerns over chemical sector security, Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to regulate the safety and security of U.S. chemical facilities. In April of 2007, DHS passed the interim final rule called the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) in order to secure the U.S. chemical infrastructure. Unfortunately, t...

Protecting Hazmat and Anti-terrorism Responders

Most large fire departments that participated in this study expressed confi­ dence in their ability to respond to typical hazardous materials (hazmat) events, such as hazardous cargo spills from trucks involved in highway accidents. In contrast, these same departments were greatly concerned about their ability to respond to large or multiple acts of terrorism. For instance, terrorism response c...

Social network analysis and information fusion for anti-terrorism

0. Abstract We discuss how methods from social network analysis could be combined with methodologies from database mediator technology and information fusion in order to give police and other civil security decision-makers the ability to achieve predictive situation awareness and enable them to plan and execute their actions in a pro-active manner, instead of just reacting to the opponent’s act...

Ideological Basis for Islamic Radicalism and Implications for Deradicalization

The flavor du jour in discussions of Islamic terrorism features a de-emphasis on the ideological component, drawing instead upon epidemiological and criminological concepts; approaching Mexican drug gangs and Islamic extremists as being more similar than they are different. This aids a network scrutiny and suggests buy-out rather than ideological deradicalization. Such new abandonments of the i...