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Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative
The Critical Infrastructure Higher Education Initiative (CI HEI) was a highly successful five year partnership between the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) at George Mason University and the U.S. Department of...
Self-Study Course: Counterterrorism in the United Kingdom
Course — website/web application. Paul Jonathan Smith. Updated May 2017 The following three modules address counterterrorism in the United Kingdom. Tracing the UK response to violent subnational terrorism back to its efforts against the...
Self-Study Course: Social Network Analysis
Course — website/web application. Developed in conjunction with Sean Everton, Co-Director and Michael Aspland, Faculty Associate for Research at the CORE Lab in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School This course is...
Self-Study Course: The Global Jihadi Threat
Course — website/web application. Nadav Morag. [Updated Dec 2016] Islam is a faith of richness and complexity that has manifested itself over time in a broad variety of ways. Unfortunately, it is also used...
Self-study Course: Deception Detection Techniques
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security, has identified micro-facial expressions suggestive of deception. Using this information, the team created the Deception Detection Techniques Course to provide...
Self-Study Course: Understanding Terrorism: A Social Science View on Terrorism
Course — website/web application. David Brannan and Anders Strindberg. Over the last 25 years, much of the research on terrorism has been accomplished without rigorous adherence to analytical frameworks. This series of three modules...
Self-Study Course: Research Process and Methods
Course — website/web application. Lauren Wollman. The goals of the lectures are to explore the practices and modalities of good research, to learn a set of research steps or phases required to conduct thesis...
Self-Study Course: Critical Infrastructure Protection – Transportation Security
Course — website/web application. Kip Hawley. This self-study course is comprised of three lecture modules developed by Kip Hawley, former Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), focusing on risk-based solutions for airport and...
Self-Study Course: Terrorist Financing and State Response
Course — website/web application. Jacob Shapiro. This course examines exactly how far we have come in our understanding of the ways in which terrorists raise, store, and transfer funds. It also evaluates challenges facing...
Self-Study Course: Intelligence for Homeland Security: Organizational and Policy Challenges
Course — website/web application. The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the ensuing War on Terror have focused the nation’s attention on homeland security. This course examines...
Self-Study Course: Homeland Security in Israel
Course — website/web application. Nadav Morag. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has had to cope with ongoing periods of terrorism punctuated by periods of war. While this has been an unfortunate reality for...