TheCentre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), also known as theHanda Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, is aresearch centre at the School of International Relations at theUniversity of St. Andrews, and is Europe's oldestterrorism research facility. The CSTPV is "dedicated to the study of the causes, dynamics, characteristics and consequences of terrorism and related forms of political violence", while committed to rigorous, independent evidence-based scholarly analysis.[1] In addition, the CSTPV investigates the responses of states, civil society, and international organizations to violent modes of waging conflict.[2] As the basis of its work, the CSTPV maintains databases, manifestations, and consequences of terrorism and other forms of political violence.[3]
CSTPV has been able to expand its research and teaching work as the result of a donation from theWorldwide Support for Development (WSD), chaired by Japanese religious leaderHaruhisa Handa. Hence it was also named as Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence.[1]
The Centre teaches a variety of courses and supports research students completing PhDs, DProfs, and MPhils. It also hosts events year round including the annualPaul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture and is home to the Extremism Journal, Contemporary Voices in International Relations and an academic blog.
The Centre was founded in 1994 byPaul Wilkinson andBruce Hoffman[4] and created theRand-St. Andrews terrorism incident database which provides data for their studies.[5]
In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations atAberdeen University, Wilkinson had established The Terrorism Research Unit in the department, which developed a terrorism database in coordination withRAND. At that time RAND's terrorism database was overseen byBrian Jenkins who in 1989 was replaced by Bruce Hoffman. Hoffman left RAND to set up CSTPV some time in 1994.
In 1998 Bruce Hoffman returned to RAND and Paul Wilkinson took over as Director, amalgamating the role with his position as Chairman. When Wilkinson stepped downMagnus Ranstorp was appointed Acting Director and then briefly Director from early to mid 2005.
In May 2006Alex Schmid took over as Director. That autumn CSTPV moved into new premises, occupying now the whole second floor of the West-wing of the New Arts Building.
Schmid remained director until 2009.[6]
After thisRichard English was appointed as director and served until 2016. During this time he was also made Bishop Wardlaw Professor in Politics. His inaugural lecture was used as a basis for his 2016 book,Does Terrorism Work?.
In 2016 Tim Wilson became director of the Centre.
The current Director is Dr Sarah Marsden.
CSTPV offer a full-timePostgraduate Diploma/M.Litt in Terrorism Studies along with two long distanceE-learning courses. CSTPV currently runs two E-Learning courses, an online Certificate in Terrorism course, with their commercial partnersInforma, and a part-time E-Learning PG Dip/M.Litt in Terrorism Studies. The development of these courses is overseen by the Terrorism Studies Programme Board.
| Discipline | Political science |
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| Language | English |
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Former name | Journal of Terrorism Research |
| History | 2010–present |
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| License | CC-BY 4.0 |
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| ISO 4 | Contemp. Voices |
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| ISSN | 2516-3159 |
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Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations, formerlyJournal of Terrorism Research, is a quarterly online journal covering the study ofterrorism. It was established in 2010.[7] It rebranded asContemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations in 2018, beginning with volume 1, issue 1, under that name, after eight volumes of quarterly issues under its former name.[8]
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