One of the many forms that biological warfare may take is the targeting of major food crops. In a poor country where millions of citizens depend on staple crops such as rice, an act of bioterrorism that destroys the crop would create a famine, resulting not only in malnutrition and starvation but also in reduced immune resistance to a range of common illnesses. To reduce the potential of delibe...

When do Americans view political violence as legitimate? In this article, I use experimental methods to examine public perceptions of domestic perpetrated advance right-wing or left-wing agendas. Specifically, the extent which alignment ideology (conservative/liberal) with a cause influences legitimacy for objectively equivalent acts violence. Controlling variables such perpetrator identity, de...

Despite Ghana’s non-experience of terrorism amid the internal and external threats, scholars are yet to push this subject into realm discourse. Canvasing exclusive knowledge from institutional practices, we investigated counter-terrorism strategies employed by security institutions safeguard country. Applying thematic textual analysis via interviews twelve personnel availed us, unmasked that al...

This article explores the relationship between Kenya and the Global War on Terror (GWOT) insofar as it relates to national politics, regional security, and the international community. The author first examines the historical context of Kenya’s relationship with terrorism on a domestic level, then offers a profile for past and future perpetrators, and lastly explains the reasons that Kenya is a...

This paper discusses the provision of GIS to non-GIS users. Intelligence plays a vital role in combating not only international terrorism but also domestic crimes. In order to explore the full potential of the intelligence materials available, GIS technology shall be made more accessible to non-GIS users, such as frontline police officers and other law enforcement agents. A standalone police/se...

This study is the first to estimate the effect of war service in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) on domestic violence. We exploit a natural experiment in overseas deployment assignment among active duty servicemen by relying on theoretical and empirical evidence that, conditional on military rank and occupation, deployment assignments are orthogonal to the propensity for violence. Our result...