The National Incident Management System (NIMS), created after 9/11, has helped government agencies respond to large-scale emergencies, including mass shootings and the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Those involved with the monumental task faced many challenges as they balanced the unquestionable priority of remembrance with the commercial task of recreating an economically vibrant downtown.
Improvised rescues, such as boat owners saving people in flooded Louisiana, have become an integral part of federal and state disaster response efforts.
The protagonist in the novel ‘The Silent Minaret’ gets us to question that powerful political-cultural myth of being tied to nation. That is a remarkable achievement in fiction.
‘American Idol’ fittingly appeared nine months after 9/11 – and ends just in time for Donald Trump’s rise.
The reporting of terrorist atrocities is polarising opinion in a way that is dangerous for the craft of journalism.
Getting out in a crisis is often harder than it looks. But science can help.
The final article of our series on the historical roots of Islamic State examines the role recent Western intervention in the Middle East played in the group’s inexorable rise.
Representing even the Crusades as wars between Christians and Muslims is a gross oversimplification and a misreading of history.
Despite what we’re told, religion isn’t inherently peaceful. People kill in the name of their religion, just as they love in its name.
It is probably not a surprise that a terror attack can have a major impact on people’s mental health. But what sort of effects are common, and how long do they last?
More male babies were born in South Africa nine months after the country hosted the 2010 World Cup. There’s science behind it.
The tactics used by America’s current and potential future enemies are constantly changing. Higher education can help by producing graduates able to work in intelligence communities.
In the years after a traumatic news event, we’re prone to confuse things we saw on TV with what we witnessed in person.
It can’t compete with the US, but the UK became part of mega-memorial culture after the London bombings.
The US and UK were attacked by suicide bombers within a few years of each other, but their responses were very different.
Why are atheists deemed as untrustworthy as rapists?
The new head of Oxford university says it did but while some took post-tragedy patriotism too far, others were pursuing an old agenda.
Tansy Davies’s opera raises serious questions about the appropriation of horrific events into art works.
Many are decrying the film as merely conservative propaganda. But American Sniper – as with many of Eastwood’s films – has a more nuanced approach that addresses modern anxieties.
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor of Music, Culture and Society, City St George's, University of London
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Seattle University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University
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Professor of History, University of Dayton
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Principal Research Fellow, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas
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Professor of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of War Studies, University of Nottingham
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Glenn Family Chair Emeritus of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia