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Vol 5, No 1 (2011): Perspectives on Terrorism
Table of Contents Articles
A Blast from the Past: Lessons from a Largely Forgotten Incident of State-Sponsored Terrorism Ken Duncan
Internet Websites and Links for (Counter-)Terrorism Research Berto Jongman
Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Origin- Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of U.S. Muslims Clark McCauley, Sarah Scheckter
Situational Awareness in Terrorism and Crime Prevention Glenn P. McGovern
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Phi Beta Iota: We highlight with great regard the contribution of Berto Jongman from The Netherlands, whose map of World Conflict & Human Rights remains a classic reference work.
Mar 13
Sorry about that. Berto Yongman’s map is no longer available but utterly needed, with water scarcity to be added. He joined his government and is no longer allowed to exhibit his extraordinary talent in public.
2002 Jongman (NL) World Conflict & Human Rights Map 2001/2002
2001 Jongman (NL) World Conflict & Human Rights Map
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Aug 18
Six-Front War
o the left is the map we created when it was clear the USA was going to invade Iraq and blow what should have been the surgical demise of Osama Bin Laden. This slide was created for and used in the opening briefing to the SES course on national security at the Western Management Development Center, and in 19 briefings around the country to the American Committees on Foreign Relations (ACFR).
The only really decent conflict map, now out of production, is Berto Jongman’s World Conflict & Human Rights Map also available in a Simplified World Conflict Map.
Caliphate Variant 100-Year War
Notes: If bin Laden could have asked his maker for the most helpful possible American reaction to 9-11, he could not have done better than the Bush Administration’s ill-considered conventional military attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq. The US is now an occupying force in Iraq, and in Afghanistan it has lost control of the entire country, where under US “non-control” the opium crop has doubled, enriching all the warlords, who will be almost impossible to dislodge without resuming combat operations. We have started a six-front 100-year war.
To the right is a later version used in private briefings.
Dec 2
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Paradise Found
The future of OSINT is M4IS2.
The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2).
The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb):
Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) the instant it is received at any level by any civilian or military element responsive to global OSINT grid. This includes all of the contextual agency and mission specific information from the civilian elements previously stove-piped or disgarded, not only within the US, but ultimately within all 90+ participating nations.
Rule 2: In return for Rule 1, the US IC agrees that the Department of State (and within DoD, Civil Affairs) is the proponent outside the wire, and the sharing of all OSIF originating outside the US IC is at the discretion of State/Civil Affairs without secret world caveat or constraint. OSIF collected by US IC elements is NOT included in this warrant.
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Nov 25
Berto Jongman
Recommended by Researcher Berto Jongman.
2009-11-15 UN Overview of Terrorism Research Desirata Gestation
2009-11-15 UN List of Terrorism Research Priorities
Phi Beta Iota: Researcher Berto Jongman is a disciple and most respectful student of the work of Alex Schmid and more recently, the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) practices of Researcher Arno Reuser, who leads one of a handful of military OSINT teams that are truly on the bleeding edge of accomplishment and global access (analog & unpublished as well as the obvious).
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Nov 15
Berto Jongman
Albert J. (Berto) Jongman (1955) majored in western sociology at the University of Groningen in 1981. During his studies he gained practical experience as a research assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Sweden. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a researcher at the Polemological Institute of the University of Groningen where he dealt with several research topics including the quantitative study of war, political violence, armament and disarmament issues and human rights. In 1987 he moved to the University of Leiden where he acted as datamanager of the Project on Interdisciplinary Research on the Root Causes of Gross Human Rights Violations (PIOOM). He also worked on several research projects, including the World Conflict and Human Rights Map, 20th Century Genocides and Monitoring Human Rights Violations. In 2002 he moved from academia to government. Since early 2002 he works as a senior terrorism analyst for the Dutch Ministry of Defense. His ‘World Directory of Terrorist and other Organizations associated with Guerrilla Warfare, Political Violence and Protest,’ was included in the award-winning ‘Political Terrorism. A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, and Literature’ (2nd edition, 1988) edited by Alex P. Schmid. During the 1990s he regularly contributed to the Dutch Yearbook on Peace and Security. Currently an update of Political Terrorism is being prepared under the title Handbook of Terrorism Research that will be published by Routledge in the Spring of 2010. In his current function he participates in a number of Advanced Research Working Groups of NATO and in activities of the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
Nov 5
Simplified Jongman Map
This chart drew on Berto Jongman’s World Conflict & Human Rights Map. It focuses only on armed conflict. While there are many fine books that looks at “State of the World” and State of this and that, we still do not have a single map or display that properly represents the ten high-level threats to humanity, within which just two–Inter-State Conflict and Civil War–are actually “armed” conflict. Everything else is genocide under another name, including poverty, disease, and proliferation for profit.
Aug 16
Global Threats
This graphic was created after being inspired by Berto Jongman’s brilliant World Conflict & Human Rights Map, a document that went out of creation in 2003 after he joined his national intelligence service. His contribution is sorely missing and much needed again, only with an expansion to respect the profound wisdom contained in the Report of the United Nations High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenge, and Change, A more secure world: Our shared responsibility. LtGen Dr. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret), was the U.S. member of the Panel.
Aug 16
