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Predicting Suicide Attacks: Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets
Author(s): Walter L. Perry (Author), Claude Berrebi (Author), Ryan Andrew Brown (Author), John Hollywood (Author), Amber Jaycocks (Author), Parisa Roshan (Author), Thomas Sullivan (Author), Lisa Miyashiro (Author)
- Publisher: RAND
- Publication Date: 5 April 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 0833078003
- ISBN-13: 9780833078001
Book Description
As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial features. This test case focused on terrorist bombing incidents in Israel, but the findings indicate that the methodology merits further exploration.
