How has domestic extremism changed two years after Jan. 6?
ABC News interviewed CTEC Research Fellow Amy Cooter on the second anniversary of the Capitol riots. Cooter embedded with a militia group during her graduate research work.
The Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) conducts in-depth research on terrorism and other forms of extremism.
CTEC honors and remembers our friend and colleague, Mike Donnelly. His contributions to the Center and to MIIS will never be forgotten. If you would like to learn more about the Michael Donnelly CTEC Research Fellowship, click here.
Formerly known as the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program, CTEC collaborates with world-renowned faculty and their graduate students in the Middlebury Institute’s Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies degree program.
Our research informs private, government, and multilateral institutional understanding of and responses to terrorism threats. CTEC is a mixed-methods research center, meaning that our experts and students use analytic tradecraft, data science, and linguistics. We mentor our students and the wider MIIS community on skills that are in demand from government agencies, international organizations, technology companies, and financial institutions.
While CTEC is affiliated with MIIS’s Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies (NPTS) department, we also employ faculty and students from across MIIS and Middlebury College.
CTEC’s work is made possible by research grants and gifts from supporters. We appreciate your generosity. Make an online donation to CTEC today.
Open positions at CTEC are advertised through the Middlebury Institute’s employment opportunities page on Handshake.
Middlebury College students will find job listings on PeopleAdmin.
In studying terrorism, other forms of extremism, and state sponsors of terrorism, CTEC’s focus is on six crucial areas:
Militant Accelerationism
CTEC is integrated into the curriculum of several Middlebury Institute degree and certificate programs, giving students opportunities to gain real-world work experience as paid research assistants:
Research published by CTEC.
The Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism hosts and supports numerous events, including a speaker series.
Faculty and staff provide CTEC leadership and expertise.
The latest news from the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC).
The Special Operations Research Database facilitates third-party research and students’ skill development, and also preserves the experiences of those in the global war on extremism.
CTEC is home to one of the first dedicated research initiatives to the study of militant accelerationism, called the Accelerationism Threat Assessment and Research Initiative. Led by Senior Research Scholar Matt Kriner, this initiative is at the cutting edge of mixed-methods analysis for understanding, mitigating, and preventing accelerationist violence.
The Michael Donnelly Fellowship, named in honor of our late friend and colleague, carries forward his legacy by supporting two underrepresented MIIS students each year with demonstrated financial need through a funded research position.
ABC News interviewed CTEC Research Fellow Amy Cooter on the second anniversary of the Capitol riots. Cooter embedded with a militia group during her graduate research work.
| by Stephen Diehl
Amy Cooter, senior research fellow at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, wrote an opinion piece for The Conversation, noting a possible change in public sentiment regarding limits of free speech.
| by Caroline Crawford
Diverting Hate, which started as a Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies classroom project, is a new user diversion resource being developed by Kaitlyn Tierney MAIPD ’22 and Courtney Cano MAIPD ’22.