Terrorist Attacks on Educational Institutions
- Author
- Erin Miller
- Corporate Author
- National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology
- Resource Language
- English
- Year of publication
- 2014
- Topic
- Civic / Citizenship / DemocracyGlobalisation and social justice / International understandingOthers
- Resource Type
- International normative instruments / policy and advocacy documentsResearch papers / journal articles
- Level of education
- Higher educationOthers
- Region
- Global
- Place of publication
- College Park
The report describes historical patterns of terrorist attacks targeting educations institutions dating back to 1970. Since that year, more than 3,400 terrorist attacks targeting educations institutions took place in 110 countries. These attacks comprised 2.7 percent of all terrorist attacks worldwide during this time period.
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