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Predicting Suicide Attacks: Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets
ISBN: 9780833078032
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / RAND Corporation
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Political Science ; History;

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.