START is pleased to announce five for-credit internships for Spring 2010for University of Maryland Students. All internships are available toboth undergraduate and graduate students. Four of the internshipsinvolve research supporting major START projects and the finalinternship involves research in conjunction with the NationalCounterterrorism Center. Click on the project links below for moreinformation on each internship project.
* The Counterterrorism Project (CTP) uses qualitative researchmethods to analyze the effectiveness of countermeasures employed againstfive terrorist organizations that attack or threaten to attack theUnited States.
* The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open source,incident-level database that tracks characteristics of terrorist attacksbetween 1970 and 2007.
* The Terrorism and Ethnic Political Violence Project examinesorganizations that represent ethnic minorities’ use of violent andnon-violent tactics to achieve political goals.
* The Terrorism Research Information Clearing House (T-RICH)project uses metadata analytic techniques to compile and catalog STARTstudies.
* The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) sponsors the WorldIncidents Tracking System (WITS), which is the unclassified, open sourcedatabase of terrorist incidents that serves as a companion to NCTC’sclassified information resources.
Please send general questions about START’s internship program toeducation@start.umd.edu. For project-specific questions, pleasecontact the internship supervisor listed under each project on theinternship website www.start.umd.edu/start/education/internships.
Amber Stoesser Lesniewicz
Educational Programs Associate
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses toTerrorism (START)
University of Maryland
3303 Symons Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Office: 301 405 6721
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