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Europe's oldest terrorism research facility, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) is based at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews.The CSTPV is dedicated to the study of the causes, dynamics, characteristics and consequences of terrorism and related forms of political violence while committed to rigorous, evidence-based, scholarly analysis that is policy-relevant but independent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/about.html )〕 In addition, the CSTPV investigates the responses of states, civil society, and international organizations to violent modes of waging conflict.〔Rupert Herbert-Burns, Sam Bateman and Peter Lehr (eds.), Lloyd's MIU Handbook of Maritime Security, (Fl: Auerbach Publications, 2008) p.xix〕 As the basis of its work, the CSTPV maintains databases, manifestations, and consequences of terrorism and other forms of political violence.〔Lloyd's MIU Handbook of Maritime Security, ''op.cit.〕 CSTPV has been able to expand its research and teaching work as the result of a donation from the Worldwide Support for Development (WSD), chaired by Japanese philanthropist Dr Haruhisa Handa. Hence it was also named as Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence.〔 ==History== The Centre was founded in 1994 by Paul Wilkinson and Bruce Hoffman〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cstpv/news/index_files/bruce-hoffman.php )〕 and created the Rand-St. Andrews terrorism incident database which provides data for their studies.〔Hsinchun Chen, Edna Reid, Joshua Sinai, Andrew Silke, Boaz Ganor (eds.), Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security, (New York: Springer, 2008) p.15〕 In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen University, Wilkinson had established The Terrorism Research Unit in the department, which developed a terrorism database in coordination with RAND. At that time RAND's terrorism database was overseen by Brian Jenkins who in 1989 was replaced by Bruce Hoffman. Hoffman left RAND to set up CSTPV some time in 1994. In 1998 Bruce Hoffman returned to RAND and Paul Wilkinson took over as Director, amalgamating the role with his position as Chairman. When Wilkinson stepped down Magnus Ranstorp was appointed Acting Director and then briefly Director from early to mid 2005. In May 2006 Alex Schmid took over as Director. That autumn CSTPV moved into new premises, occupying now the whole second floor of the West-wing of the New Arts Building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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