Why CTEC?

At the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterrorism (CTEC), our mission is to drive change in pursuit of a more just world by advancing education, research, and analysis across the critical domains of domestic extremism, transnational emerging threats, and online trust and safety. We do this by delivering critically needed research and analysis to effectively move us towards a safer world where individuals in every community can thrive. We achieve this through:

  • Our Resources and Intelligence: CTEC’s team of professionals have honed the expertise and methods necessary to identify and gather intelligence and insights that inform the state of the threat landscape for terrorism and extremism. Ensuring we gather the highest quality of reliable data from our thorough efforts to explore dynamics as they unfold and rapidly evolve is critical to a well-informed understanding of the problem that needs to be countered.
  • Our Approach: CTEC’s expert staff take a rigorous approach to systematically researching and analyzing the information and intelligence we gather in order to identify the key trends and factors contributing to the current threat landscape and what’s needed to address them. We marry the strengths of traditional open-source intelligence with deep academic subject matter expertise.
  • Our Impact: Using proprietary open-source methods, we gather high-quality intel to deliver groundbreaking findings to fill critical gaps that inform effective policies, strategies, and tactics across sectors combating extremism and terrorism. We do this while training students and junior researchers to collaborate and contribute in the Center’s projects, fostering the next generation of researchers and analysts to continue and grow our impact.

Our work is made possible by research grants and gifts from supporters. We appreciate your generosity.

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