Les infos clés
En résumé
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence housed at the University of Maryland, offers a course looking at the who, what and how of Terrorism Studies, by introducing students to cutting-edge research from the social and behavioral sciences and the experts investigating these topics. The course will begin with a unit looking at widely held myths about terrorism and utilizing empirical data to discuss the realities of broad trends and patterns in terrorist attacks over time. The course will then review the psychological factors at play in individual radicalization and recruitment into terrorism, followed by an analysis of terrorist group dynamics. The course will next look at terrorist group operations, including their attacks and some of the supporting behaviors that allow them to carry out attacks, including use of media, financing, recruitment, and training. The course will conclude by looking at the factors that drive terrorist group persistence or endurance versus terrorist group desistance, and will bring the varied course concepts together through a detailed look at the case of Al-Qa’ida. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to study and work with the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database (GTD), the largest database of terrorist incidents in the world, learning its capabilities and developing basic skills in searching and displaying terrorism data.
Le programme
- Week 1 - Introduction
- Week 2 - Module 1: How Do We Study Terrorism?
- Week 3 - Module 2: Individual Radicalization
- Week 4 - Module 3: Terrorist Group Dynamics
- Week 5 - Module 4: Terrorist Operations
- Week 6 - Module 5: Al-Qa'ida Case Study
Les intervenants
Dr. Gary LaFree
Director
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
Bill Braniff
Executive Director
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
Kate Izsak
Education Director
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Reponses to Terrorism
Joyce Rasing
Le concepteur
L'université du Maryland est l'université phare de l'État et l'une des principales universités publiques de recherche du pays. Leader mondial en matière de recherche, d'entrepreneuriat et d'innovation, l'université accueille plus de 37 000 étudiants, 9 000 membres du corps enseignant et du personnel, et 250 programmes académiques.
Son corps professoral compte trois lauréats du prix Nobel, trois lauréats du prix Pulitzer, 47 membres des académies nationales et un grand nombre de chercheurs Fulbright. L'institution dispose d'un budget de fonctionnement de 1,8 milliard de dollars, obtient 500 millions de dollars par an en financement externe de la recherche et a récemment achevé une campagne de collecte de fonds d'un milliard de dollars.
La plateforme
Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.
Very good course, I got a lot out of it. Recommended for its clarity, organisation, scope of issues that it covers and the way they are presented.
Very good course, I got a lot out of it. Recommended for its clarity, organisation, scope of issues that it covers and the way they are presented.
This is an excellent primer for someone looking to pursue more knowledge on the subject of terrorism. Although slightly dated and needs to be updated with all the changes that have transpired in past 5 years in the world of terrorist activities it is a well organized class that was educational and rewarding.
Es un curso que abre la mente a quienes nos interesa el tema, y particularmente a los que vivimos en paises que no controlan ni tienen en cuenta estos tópicos.
Just a great class. Very informative. Helps you understand the scope of the issues that surround the subject of terrorism and counterterrorism.
A very good course diving into the foundations to understand the threats out of terrorism and counter-terrorism aspcts. It is inter-disciplinary oriented and putting analysis in context to frameworks from psychology and sociology and considers in depth as well data collected from global terrorism databases. It was pivotal to a structured understanding of terrorism basics, the use of terrorist incidents data as well as in particular on getting view into the radicalisation process and dynamics of indidviduals, groups and organisation being involved in terrorism.<sub /><sup /><strike />
