Collaborative Research: NSCC/SA: Terror, Conflict Processes, Organizations, & Ideologies: Completing the Picture

合作研究：NSCC/SA：恐怖、冲突过程、组织、

• 批准号: 0904883
• 负责人: Michael Findley
• 金额: $ 6.51万
• 依托单位: Brigham Young University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0904883&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSCC; SA; Terror

This award was funded through the Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict, and Cooperation competition, a joint venture between NSF and the Department of Defense. Understanding the utility and effectiveness of government, and in particular US government, tactics and strategies in influencing the frequency and severity of dissident' tactics and strategies is critical to successfully limiting violent terrorist activity. This research will address this question by specifying a complex adaptive systems model of government-dissident-mass public interactions developed from disparate social science literatures and military doctrine. Specifically, the model considers (1) how mass support for political violence affects the ebb and flow of government-dissident interactions and the emergence and evolution of social networks, (2) how US government diplomatic, information, military, and economic strategies yield intended, unintended, direct, and indirect effects on levels of political violence and the strength of social networks, and (3) how the evolution and strength of networks and the intensity of mass support affects levels of government repression. Implications of this model will be tested using bilinear mixed effects statistical models. The project makes contributions in both the academic and policy arenas ranging from improved academic understanding of government and dissident tactical choices to informing the efforts of practitioners involved in confronting violent challengers. The project has implications for how to constrain and limit violent and terrorist activities around the world and particularly in South, East, and Southeast Asia. Moreover, the project produces a set of extensive linked datasets on actors, groups, governments, foreign actors and their activities as well as their characteristics and network structures for 31 countries from 1997-2008. Finally, the project facilitates the professional development of graduate and undergraduate researchers by employing them as research apprentices, exposing them to new methodologies, and acquainting them with interdisciplinary studies of violent political conflict.

该奖项是通过国家安全，冲突和合作竞争的社会和行为方面资助的，NSF与国防部之间的合资企业。了解政府，尤其是美国政府的效用和有效性，影响持不同政见者战术和策略的频率和严重性的策略和战略对于成功限制暴力恐怖活动至关重要。这项研究将通过指定从不同的社会科学文献和军事学说开发的政府摩擦公共互动的复杂自适应系统模型来解决这一问题。具体而言，该模型考虑（1）大规模对政治暴力的支持如何影响政府分散互动的起伏，社交网络的出现和演变，（2）美国政府政府外交，信息，军事，军事和经济策略如何产生意图，意外，直接，直接，直接和间接对政治暴力的影响以及社交网络的力量以及群众的强度和强度的强度以及（3）的努力和发展的力量以及3）的效果和效果的影响。该模型的含义将使用双线性混合效应统计模型进行测试。该项目在学术和政策领域做出了贡献，从对政府和持不同政见的战术选择的学术理解以及为与暴力挑战者面对面的从业人员的努力告知努力。该项目对如何限制和限制世界各地的暴力和恐怖活动有影响，尤其是在南部，东部和东南亚。此外，该项目还为1997年至2008年的31个国家 /地区生产了一系列有关参与者，团体，政府，外国参与者及其活动的广泛链接数据集以及其特征和网络结构。最后，该项目通过将研究生作为研究学徒，将其暴露于新方法论，并通过对暴力政治冲突的跨学科研究来促进研究生和本科研究人员的专业发展。