October 21st, 2009

Martha Crenshaw awarded $500,000 to study terrorist patterns

Crenshaw, a senior fellow at FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has received a National Science Foundation grant to identify patterns in the evolution of terrorist organizations. "Mapping Terrorist Organizations" will be the first worldwide study to analyze terrorist groups and trace their relationships over time. Read more »

August 18th, 2006

CISAC researchers consulted on civil war causes

The commonplace assumption that a more homogeneous society is a more peaceful society certainly sounds reasonable. But a growing body of work suggests this thinking is false. CISAC civil war experts James D. Fearon and David Laitin came to a startling finding, in their sweeping 2003 study: "it appears not to be true that a greater degree of ethnic or religious diversity--or indeed any particular cultural demography--by itself makes a country more prone to civil war." Read more »