Registration is now open for the Terrorism Analysis: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methodologies and Tools professional education summer course at George Mason University on July 22-24, 2013.
Course Description This course introduces participants to a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies for the study of terrorism. This two-day course provides participants with an in-depth understanding of single and multi-methodological tools and techniques. Ultimately, participants learn how to create and utilize analytical tools applicable to the current and emerging needs of professionals and academics with responsibilities for preventing, preparing for, responding to, and/or predicting terrorism.
Course Features
- Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be awarded by George Mason University
- Syllabus and reading materials
- Lunch and breaks on all days
- Certificate of attendance
Course Objectives
- Identification of best use practices for a variety of open-source terrorism data sets.
- Appreciation of the advantages, drawbacks, and potentialities offered by the use of terrorism variables.
- Learning toentify, test for applicability, and comparatively assess the relative importance of specific variables for explaining, understanding and predicting terrorist behavior.
- Structure cross-variable interrelations – and the weighing of relative importance – in theentification of terrorist behaviors of particular interest.
- Understand how various methodologies interact to synergistically inform and empower various tools useful in preventing, assessing, responding to, and predicting terrorist behaviors of interest. Using this knowledge to structure entirely new approaches in the creation of tools for assessing and predicting terrorist behaviors.
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