NCSS/W: Substantive Expertise, Strategic Analysis and Behavioral Foundations of Terrorism

该奖项由国家安全、冲突和合作竞赛的社会和行为维度资助，该竞赛是国家科学基金会和国防部之间的合资企业。这个奖项是颁给一个关于恐怖主义行为基础的研讨会。研讨会的主要组织者计划将来自多个学科的研究人员聚集在一起，分享他们的知识并开发未来的研究项目。组织者将针对三个领域的研究人员：1)来自社会学、心理学和犯罪学的研究人员，他们研究恐怖组织的细节，包括他们如何招募和运作，他们成员的动机是什么，以及他们如何应对威胁；2)使用博弈论模拟群体冲突的经济学和政治学研究人员；3)经济学和心理学的研究人员使用实验室和现场实验来测试博弈论模型的预测。研讨会组织者计划将恐怖主义专家的深入知识纳入博弈论模型，然后通过实验室实验对这些模型进行测试。在小组领导的指导下，参与者将在研讨会上展示他们和其他人的研究成果，这些研究成果说明了他们学科的最新进展。通过将这个跨学科小组聚集在一起，组织者希望围绕国家安全、恐怖主义和反恐活动产生新的研究项目。讲习班的产出将包括新的跨学科研究项目，这些项目将通过期刊特刊或编辑卷加以传播。该项目的主要广泛影响是制定更有效和知情的公共政策，以解决恐怖主义问题。

This award is funded through the Social and Behavioral Dimensions of National Security, Conflict, and Cooperation competition, a joint venture between NSF and the Department of Defense.This award is for a workshop on the behavioral foundations of terrorism. The lead workshop organizer plans to bring together researchers from multiple disciplines to share their knowledge and develop future research projects. The organizer will target researchers in three domains: 1) researchers from sociology, psychology and criminology who investigate the particulars of terrorist organizations, including how they recruit and operate, what motivates their members, and how they respond to threats; 2) researchers from economics and political science who model conflict between groups using game theory; and 3) researchers from economics and psychology who use laboratory and field experiments to test predictions of the game-theoretic models. The workshop organizer plans to incorporate in-depth knowledge from terrorism experts into game-theoretic models and then test these models through laboratory experiments. Participants at the workshop, under the guidance of group leaders, will present their and others' research which illustrates the state-of-the-art in their disciplines. By bringing together this interdisciplinary group, the organizer hopes to generate new programs of research around national security, terrorism, and counter-terrorism activities. Outputs from the workshop will include new, interdisciplinary research projects, which will be disseminated via a special issue of a journal or an edited volume. The primary broader impact of this project is to develop more effective and informed public policies that address issues of terrorism.