WORKSHOP REPORTS/MATERIALS

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Monday, April 3
 
"Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" - Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Tuesday, April 4
"Welcome" - Kathleen Morrison, Director, Center for International Studies, The University of Chicago; Charles Macal, Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory
"Welcome" - Richard Gullickson, Director, Advanced Systems Concepts Office, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA/ASCO).
"Regional Centers of Excellence - Academic Defense Against Bioterrorism" - Olaf Schneewind, Director, Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research (GLRCE)
"Poverty, Inequality, and Terrorism" - Robert Townsend, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, University of Chicago
"An Emotive Dictionary of Conflict Terms" - Ilai Alon, Visiting Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
 
"What are National Security Threats?" - John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago
 
"Microfoundations of Insurgent Violence" - Mark Smith, Ph.D candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; Janine Davidson, Director, Counterinsurgency Studies with the Center for Adaptive Strategies and Threats, Hicks and Associates, Inc.
   
"Attachments to Land and Interstate Conflict" - Jenna Jordan, Ph.D Candidate, University of Chicago
 
       
   
"Policy, Behavior, and Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Crucible of Strategic Culture: An Initial Framework for Comparative Analysis" - Jeffery Lantis, Associate Professor of Political Science;
Kerry Kartchner, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advanced Systems Concepts Office

Discussant: Joseph Masco, Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago


Wednesday, April 5
 
"Counterforce Revisited" - Charles Glaser, Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
 
"Automatic Machine Translation from Poorly Studied Languages" - John Goldsmith, Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science, University of Chicago
"Assessing Threats and Risks: A Wickedly Complex Problem" - Nancy Hayden, Sandia National Laboratory
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"Introduction to Modeling" - Charles Macal
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"Mechanisms of Occupation and Resistance: Lessons from the British in Iraq" - Daniel Barnard, Instructor, United States Military Academy at West Point, and Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
   
 
   
"Solidarity/Occupational Dynamics Modeling" - Keven Ruby, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Discussant: Jonathan Ozik, Post-doctoral Fellow, Joint Threat Anticipation Center

 
"Modeling Motivation and Intent" - Ryan Hohimer, M&I Ontology Development Team, Pacific Northwest National Lab
     
"Challenges in Threat Modeling" - David Sallach, Argonne/Decision & Information Sciences and University of Chicago