Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism: Terrorist Group Financing
Announcing the new Center for Terrorism & Security Studies at UMass Lowell
Special Issue of Perspectives on Terrorism: Terrorist Group Decision-Making
• WMD and Terrorism article in Journal of Strategic Security
• Global Trends in Kidnapping by Terrorist Groups
• Intersections of Crime and Terror
• Political Violence and the Illicit Economies of West Africa
• Special Issue of The Combating Terrorism Exchange: "Social Media and Jihad"
• Law Enforcement Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism by START (September, 2012)
• The Terrorism Lectures by James Forest (July, 2012)
  
  
  
  
• JSOU Report: Confronting the Terrorism of Boko Haram in Nigeria by James Forest (May, 2012)
  
• CTC Video presentation at GoogleIdeas Event: Illicit Networks, featuring Scott Helfstein
  
• CTC Report: Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Laden Sidelined? (May 2012)
  
• Open Source Intelligence Toolkit
  
• Article: Perception Challenges Faced by Al-Qaeda on the Battlefield of Influence Warfare (J. Forest, April 2012)


• Special Issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence 24(2) on Intersections of Crime and Terror



• Call for Peer Reviewers
  The Editorial Board of Perspectives on Terrorism is looking to expand its database of peer reviewers for article submissions. All those interested in participating in this important peer review process should send their CV (or a brief bio summary) along with contact information and a short list of 3-5 topics of particular interest and expertise to: james_forest at uml.edu. As with many other scholarly journals, each year an issue of Perspectives on Terrorism will publish a list of appreciation recognizing all peer reviewers who have contributed to that year's issues. In addition to furthering the journal's success, participation in the peer review process also provides useful insights on emerging research in the field. Typically, a reviewer will be asked to evaluate only one article per year, and we are committed to ensuring that peer reviewers will not be asked to review more than two articles per year.
  
  
• Resources on Homegrown Terrorism by the New America Foundation
• Recent Issue of the CTC Sentinel, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
• Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism (2nd Edition), by James Forest and Russell Howard (McGraw-Hill, 2012)
• Download the free NCTC Annual Counterterrorism Calendar
• Edges of Radicalization: Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent Extremism, by Scott Helfstein (CTC 2012)

• My blog (JamesForest.com)
• Article: Nigeria's Terrorism Problem
• Journal Special issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, on Terrorism in Africa, with articles by Jennifer Giroux, James Forest, Freedom Onuoha, Ibaba Samuel Ibaba, Alex Wilner, and more.
• Article: "Ungoverned Territories" in Atlantic Perspective

• National Counterterrorism Strategy, 2011
• Information on terrorist groups:
  • Terrorist Groups, courtesy of the National Counterterrorism Center
  • Terrorist Organization Profiles (TOPS), courtesy of START (U. Maryland)
• Conference Report: Threat Convergence Summit in Zurich, 2010 (See p. 7 for the plenary featuring John Brennan and James Forest)

• Report: Congressional Hearing on Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, featuring Jarret Brachman, Chris Boucek and Barak Barfi (March 2, 2011)
• Report: Terrorist Innovations in Weapons of Mass Effect, by Maria Rassmussen and Mohammed Hafez
• Free Book: Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology by Stephen Ulph, Jamestown Foundation - provides an introduction to the intellectual infrastructure of the jihadist phenomenon and the process of radicalization

• Combating Violent Extremism: The Counterradicalization Debate in 2011, featuring Peter Neumann, Maajid Nawaz, and Matthew Levitt. Click here for the summary report.
• Report: Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman, eds. Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qaida and its Periphery (December 2010, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)
• "Zones of Competing Governance," by James Forest - presentation at ISA 2011, Montreal (Powerpoint Slides)
• Updated Call for Authors: Praeger Security International series - the PSI Guides to Terrorists, Insurgents, and Armed Groups (now includes organized criminal networks, gangs, etc.)

• Give to the General Wayne Downing Foundation
• Earn a Graduate Certificate (multiple options) from the School of Criminology & Justice Studies at UMass Lowell

New Books Published in the Praeger Security International Series:

• My Pen Pal the Jihadist, by Jarret Brachman (Foreign Policy, July 2010)
• The Sentinel [PDF] (the monthly Journal of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)
• The Almanac of Al Qaeda, by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedman (Foreign Policy, May/June 2010)
• The Role of the Military in Combating Violent Extremism, (Congressional testimony before a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee) by James Forest (March 10, 2010)

• Sheikh to Terrorists: Go to Hell, by Christian Caryl (Foreign Policy, April 14, 2010)
• The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia by Thomas Hegghammer, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (Feb. 25, 2010)
• Renowned Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri issues 600-page anti-terrorism fatwa
  (here's an additional link to a BBC story on this, and here's a link to Qadri's Islamic library website)