The Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC)
The Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) is a five-year collaborative project in which TraCCC staff and students are working under the leadership of Development Services Group (DSG) to provide the data and analysis for the U.S. State Department’s congressionally mandated Statistical Annex for the Annual Country Reports on Global Terrorism.
The project uses AI to identify open-source reporting on terrorist incidents around the world. TraCCC’s role is to train data entry staff, do country methodologies, analyze the data, research each incident that meets criteria, collect information on the perpetrators, victims, weapons and tactics related to the incident, and enter them into a database. This research requires analysis of different media sources in the languages of the countries involved, so the TraCCC team includes native speakers of a wide variety of languages, including French, Spanish, Arabic, Somali, Russian, Turkish, and Pashtun. Our staff includes students and alumni from schools and departments throughout George Mason University (Schar School, Carter School, Scalia Law School, Criminology Department, Engineering School, etc.)
For more information on the Statistical Annex
Background Information: Country Reports on Terrorism and Patterns of Global Terrorism
For TraCCC scholars’ recent publications on terrorism, click here.
- With Porous Borders and Endemic Corruption, Can Syria Mitigate the Captagon Threat?
- Americans Are Not the Only Targets of Iranian-Backed Militia Groups in Iraq and Syria
- Hezbollah’s Global Networks and Latin American Cocaine Trade
- Cocaine Networks Merge with Fentanyl Trafficking Between the Middle East and Central America
- Erdogan’s 20-Year Legacy, Upcoming Elections in Turkey, and Impacts on the U.S. and EU
- ISIS-Khorasan Appears to Be Replacing the Taliban’s Terror in Afghanistan
- Deadly Earthquakes in Turkey: How Endemic Corruption Worsens the Situation
- ISIS and Its Regional Affiliates Remain Persistent and Pervasive Threat Worldwide
- Turkey’s Upcoming Critical Elections and Its Possible Impacts on Tense Relations with the EU and US
- Are al-Qaeda’s 2022 Activities a Harbinger of the Terror Group’s Resurgence?
- Turkey and U.S. Relations Are Under the Shadow of Terrorist Attacks Allegedly Linked to Kurdish Groups in Syria
- Back to the Past: How Taliban Rule Has Wiped Out Afghanistan’s Gains and Provided Haven for Terrorists
- What’s Behind ISIS Khorasan’s Relentless Attacks on Mosques in Afghanistan?
- ISIS and al-Qaeda on the Move in Africa, Intent on Spreading Their Influence and Jihadist Ideology
- Six Years After Coup Attempt, Henri Barkey Speaks on Turkish Government’s Accusations Against Him
- Sweden, Finland, and NATO: Pawns in Erdogan’s Bid for Re-election Amid a Tattered Domestic Economy?
- Emerging Cocaine Trafficking Routes Between Latin America and Middle East Fuel Drug Trade Expansion
- Can the Relationship Between Turkey and the United States Ever Be Repaired?
- Why Turkey Has Handed Over the Jamal Khashoggi Case to Saudi Arabia
- Alternative Ways to Seek Regional and Global Influence: How Shadowy Organizations Serve the Interests of Turkey, Iran, and Russia
- The Impacts of Organizational Structure on Salafi-Jihadist Terrorist Groups in Africa
- Should the Houthis Have Remained on U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organizations List?
- How Autocrats Exploit the Definition of Terrorism for Their Own Purposes
- The ISIS Model and its Influence Over Global Terrorism
- Activity Shows Terror Groups and Right-Wing Extremists Were Undeterred by COVID-19 Pandemic
- ISIS Expansion with Affiliate in Mozambique Increases Terrorist Group’s Threat
- ISIS or al-Qaeda: Which Looms as the Greater Threat to Global Security?
- New Threats in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Taliban’s Capacity, Tehrik-i Taliban, and ISIS-Khorasan
- Under False Pretenses: Who Directed the Assassin to Kill the Russian Ambassador in Turkey in 2016?
- Names Are Never Only Names: A Nominal Analysis of Terrorist Organizations
If you are interested in joining our team, please send a resume to traccc@gmu.edu