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Safeguarding Anti-Corruption Activists and Journalists: Insights from CIPE’s Knowledge Partner Session

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Mahmut Cengiz and Terrorism After October 7

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Who Are Iran backed Militia Groups Targeting US Bases in the Middle East?

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COLUMN: Is Pakistan a New Safe Haven for ISIS and Al Qaeda?

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Louise Shelley was quoted in a Yahoo Finance article entitled, “George Mason’s TraCCC Launches Second Annual Hackathon to Fight Counterfeiters.”

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Mahmut Cengiz and Terrorism After October 7

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Who Are Iran backed Militia Groups Targeting US Bases in the Middle East?

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COLUMN: Is Pakistan a New Safe Haven for ISIS and Al Qaeda?

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Mahmut’s Overview of the October 7th Hamas Terrorist Attacks in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip

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TraCCC Director, Dr. Louise Shelley, was awarded with the Earle C. Williams Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Social Impact for her body of work and its social impacts.

TraCCC produces numerous publications on topics related to the center’s areas of research, including money laundering, drug trafficking, and corruption.

As a student of TraCCC, you will study with and learn from world-class scholars who are committed to quality teaching.

TraCCC produces numerous publications on topics related to the center’s areas of research, including money laundering, drug trafficking, and corruption.

PROJECTS

           Democracy and Anti-Corruption Defenders Fellowship (DAC)

The Democracy and Anti-Corruption Defenders (DAC) Fellowship program provided an opportunity for nationals of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras who have worked to strengthen democracy or combat corruption and impunity in their home countries to increase their capabilities to continue in this important work. The fellowship brought these individuals together to promote the emergence of an ecosystem of actors working collaboratively to address corruption in the Northern Central America (NCA) region. The program was implemented by the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University (GMU).

This project seeks to assess key safe haven hubs of global illicit trade, examining their impact, sectors affected, COVID-19-related threats, facilitating factors, policy responses, convergence of illicit trade types, involvement of legitimate economy actors, and the role of corruption, aiming to inform efforts to disrupt illegal networks and illicit markets globally.

The Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) is a collaborative project led by Development Services Group (DSG) involving TraCCC staff and students using AI to identify open-source reporting on global terrorist incidents and provide data and analysis for the U.S. State Department's Annual Country Reports on Global Terrorism, with a diverse team including native speakers of various languages and contributors from different departments at George Mason University.