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The Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security's mission is to promote the national security by advancing our understanding of terrorism and the means to combat it through research, teaching, and developing partnerships between universities, industry and government.

News & Announcements

Webcast Conversation on Muslim Americans and Domestic Security.  On Jan. 8, 2010, Triangle Center Director David Schanzer answered questions on anti-terrorism strategies during a live, interactive “Office Hours” webcast.  A recording of this program is currently available on the Duke University Ustream channel.

Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim American Communities, a new report co-authored by Triange Center Director David Schanzer, along with Charles Kurzman of UNC and Ebrahim Moosa of Duke, analyzes the extent of terrorist violence by Muslim-Americans since 9/11 and identifies strategies to head off “home-grown” terrorism.  The report is a culmination of two years of research in Muslim-American communities in Seattle, Houston, Buffalo and Raleigh-Durham.

The Triangle Center and the Duke Islamic Studies Center teamed up with the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute for a Wednesdays at the Center event.  During this hour long lunch-time talk David Schanzer and Ebrahim Moosa discussed findings from a recently completed two-year, U.S. Department of Justice funded study that looks at how American Muslims address messages of extremism in their communities. Along with Charles Kurzman, Associate Professor of Sociology at UNC – Chapel Hill, Schanzer and Moosa set out to learn from the responses of four American Muslim communities -- Buffalo, Houston, Seattle, and the Triangle area -- to radical Islamic movements across the globe.  A Podcast of this event "Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim American Communities" is available on iTunesU. 

On the July 30th episode of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Triangle Center Director David Schazer comments on the issue of homegrown terrorism following seven arrests in North Carolina. 

Strategic Risk Management in Government: A Look at Homeland Security -- a new report published by The IBM Center for the Business of Government includes a paper written by Triangle Center Director David H. Schanzer and RTIs Joe Eyerman.  In it, Schanzer and Eyerman describe the recent history of strategic risk management in the Department of Homeland Security and set forth a series of findings and recommendations directed to the Executive Office of the President, the department, and Congress. A key recommendation is that the department enhance the analytical capability necessary for strategic risk management.