We examine political attitude change using data from a large national probability sample collected over the months leading up to, and following, 2019 March 15 terror attacks against Muslim minority community in Christchurch, New Zealand. Satisfaction with government declined prior to attack, rose sharply immediately following returned pre-attack levels roughly 3 after attack. Support for ruling...

This paper investigates the effect of terrorism financing and recruitment on attacks. I exploit a Sharia‐compliant institution in Pakistan, which induces unintended quasi‐experimental variation funding terrorist groups through their religious affiliation. The results indicate that higher financing, given location period, generate more attacks same period. Financing exhibits complementarity prod...

Radical environmental groups engaged in ecotage—or economic sabotage of inanimate objects thought to be complicit in environmental destruction—have been identified as the leading domestic terrorist threat in the post-9/11 “war on terror.” This article examines the case for extending the conventional definition of terrorism to include attacks not only against noncombatants, but also against inan...

The ARGOS decision support system is currently being extended to enable estimation of the consequences of terror attacks involving chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological substances. This paper presents elements of the framework that will be applied in ARGOS to calculate the dose contributions from contaminants dispersed in the atmosphere after a 'dirty bomb' explosion. Conceptual method...

During recent years we have seen several large-scale crises. The 9/11 terror attacks, tsunamis, storms, floods and bombings have all been unpredictable and caused a great deal of damage. One common factor in these crises has been the need for information and one important source of information is usually web sites. In this work three new sets of web server access logs are presented and analyzed...