Suicide Attacks Worldwide
Terrorism imposes great costs on economic and social life as well as molding security policies of countries affected by it. But until recently the study of terrorism suffered from lack of usable data with which to evaluate theories of the phenomenon and create effective policy responses.
In 2001, to aid national security policy makers and to promote a multidisciplinary study of terrorism, the leadership of the National Security Studies Center (NSSC) at the University of Haifa in Israel initiated a large-scale data collection effort. The NSSC effort first focused on documenting every terrorist event in Israel since 1948 and in the occupied territories since 1967. Subsequent work focused on local and international concerns with collection of data on Palestinian suicide bombers, Jewish terrorism, and suicide attacks worldwide.
The NSSC, working with Dr. Ami Pedahzur of the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, is making some of this data available here to students, scholars, and the public to help foster more rigorous interdisciplinary research and improve public policy in the face of the threat terrorism today poses around the globe.
In 2001, to aid national security policy makers and to promote a multidisciplinary study of terrorism, the leadership of the National Security Studies Center (NSSC) at the University of Haifa in Israel initiated a large-scale data collection effort. The NSSC effort first focused on documenting every terrorist event in Israel since 1948 and in the occupied territories since 1967. Subsequent work focused on local and international concerns with collection of data on Palestinian suicide bombers, Jewish terrorism, and suicide attacks worldwide.
The NSSC, working with Dr. Ami Pedahzur of the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, is making some of this data available here to students, scholars, and the public to help foster more rigorous interdisciplinary research and improve public policy in the face of the threat terrorism today poses around the globe.
