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National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
The University of Maryland and its major partners, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Colorado, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of South Carolina, were awarded $12 million over the course of three years for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). This Center ddresses a set of broad, challenging questions on the causes of terrorism and strategies to counter terrorism, developing the tools necessary to improve our understanding of, and response to, the magnitude of the threat, examining the psychological impact of terrorism on society, and strengthening the population’s resilience in the face of the terrorism. (Awarded January 2005.)
The link address is: http://www.start.umd.edu/