CETIS Research Assistant Positions

Amount: tbd
Deadline: 08.15.08
To Submit: CETIS currently has immediate openings for qualified applicants and applications are reviewed upon arrival. Please send resume and cover letter to Erin McNerney: emcnerney@start.umd.edu .

The Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), an independent division of the Akribis Group, is a research center dedicated to identifying, better comprehending, and accurately assessing the present and future security threats stemming from a variety of violence-prone extremists and their enablers. In an effort to improve existing scholarship, inform policy, and provide guidance about these important, specialized, and often arcane topics, CETIS undertakes in-depth, cutting-edge research and prepares innovative analyses of terrorist groups, clandestine and covert operations, and political and religious extremism.

At this time, CETIS, in cooperation with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, is seeking Research Assistants to assist with the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). The GTD is currently the most comprehensive unclassified database on terrorist events in the world, and is an indispensable tool for government analysts and academics in the field of counterterrorism.

In the course of their work with CETIS, Research Assistants will:
• Receive training in critical thinking and counterterrorism analysis
• Apply knowledge of terrorist attack types and definitions of terrorism to analyze specific GTD incidents
• Perform in-depth open-source research on specific terrorist attacks and terrorist groups
• Benefit from access to the CETIS network of counterterrorism scholars

Qualifications:

Competitive applicants will either be enrolled in a graduate program or will have recently graduated, with highly qualified undergraduates considered as well. PhD candidates are especially encouraged to apply. The ideal applicant will have knowledge proficiency in Terrorism Studies or International Affairs, and excellent analytical skills.

Both full and part-time RA positions are open presently. There is a minimum time commitment for part-time positions of 120 hours between now and August 15, 2008. RAs may work from anywhere in the United States, provided they have reliable access to a broadband internet connection. The research assistant position is currently unpaid, but could be performed in exchange for academic credit, depending on the requirements of the applicant’s home university.


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