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Selective Screening Of Rail Passengers, Mti 06-07, Brian M. Jenkins, Bruce Robert Butterworth
Selective Screening Of Rail Passengers, Mti 06-07, Brian M. Jenkins, Bruce Robert Butterworth
Mineta Transportation Institute
The threat of another major terrorist attack in the United States remains high, with the greatest danger coming from local extremists inspired by events in the Middle East. Although the United States removed the Taliban government and destroyed al Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan, events in Europe and elsewhere have shown that the terrorist network leadership remains determined to carry out further attacks and is capable of doing so. Therefore, the United States must systematically conduct research on terrorist strikes against transportation targets to distill lessons learned and determine the best practices for deterrence, response, and recovery. Those best practices …
The Shoah Foundation's Visual History: U-M'S Access To The Holocaust, David Carter, Elliot Gertel, Nerea A. Llamas, Michael D. Miller
The Shoah Foundation's Visual History: U-M'S Access To The Holocaust, David Carter, Elliot Gertel, Nerea A. Llamas, Michael D. Miller
Robert E. Kennedy Library
In 1994, following the filming of Schindler's List, many survivors of the Nazi Holocaust came forward to offer their stories. Realizing that time was running out to document these personal histories, film director Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (SVHF). In late 2003, the U-M University Library initiated contact with the SVHF with the goal of bringing access to the Video History Archive to the U-M campus.
Optimizing Mine Action Policies And Practice, Alan Bryden
Optimizing Mine Action Policies And Practice, Alan Bryden
Global CWD Repository
Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) affect communities and individuals long after conflicts end and therefore have a profound effect on opportunities for post-conflict peacebuilding. In the immediate post-conflict phase the presence, or simply the threat, of landmines can hamper refugee return and the implementation of humanitarian assistance programmes. They pose a long-term social, economic and environmental threat that denies the use of fertile land and access to water and affects flows of people, goods and services. There is also an important security risk from abandoned explosive ordnance stockpiles or caches which, if not properly secured or destroyed following the end …
Safety And Security At Special Events: The Case Of The Salt Lake City Olympic Games, Scott H. Decker, Jack R. Greene, Vinc Webb, Jeff Rojeck, Jack Mcdevitt, Sean Varano, Tim Bynum, Peter K. Manning
Safety And Security At Special Events: The Case Of The Salt Lake City Olympic Games, Scott H. Decker, Jack R. Greene, Vinc Webb, Jeff Rojeck, Jack Mcdevitt, Sean Varano, Tim Bynum, Peter K. Manning
Justice Studies Faculty Publications
Special events offer the potential for considerable threats to public safety. Perhaps no other special event rivals the Olympic Games in scope, duration, and potential for threat to communities, participants, and dignitaries. This paper reports on the results of a study of safety and security at the Salt Lake Olympic Games by a team of researchers with wide-ranging access to operations, personnel and documents from the security effort at the 2002 Winter Games. This paper focuses on three specific areas: changing definitions of safety and security during the Games; the development and maintenance of organizational structures and interaction; and lessons …
Security At Vatican City State, Tom Clonan
Security At Vatican City State, Tom Clonan
Articles
As world leaders converge on Rome for the Papal funeral on Friday, the question of Vatican security will be high on the Holy See’s agenda. This will be especially so given the presence of President George Bush – the first US president to attend a papal funeral – at Friday’s ceremonies. Bush’s visit has been flagged well in advance and will involve his attendance at a highly visible and choreographed set of ceremonies to which hundreds of thousands of mourners will have access. This combination of factors places the US president within a predictable itinerary in proximity to large ‘un-vetted’ …
The Future Of Ireland's Neutrality And Security, Tom Clonan
The Future Of Ireland's Neutrality And Security, Tom Clonan
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The future for Ireland’s conventional defence forces and defence and security policy appears set to follow a peculiarly asymmetrical trajectory. On the one hand, Ireland’s skies, land mass and territorial waters lack even the most basic defensive military oversight or protection. On the other hand, in a process that has denied Irish citizens a healthy debate on military neutrality, Ireland’s Defence Forces are being integrated by stealth into the EU’s newly-created military structures. Ireland's defence forces are being integrated into an EU with grand military ambitions. According to the EU St. Malo Declaration of 1998, this grand design involves Europe …
Improved Document Representation For Classification Tasks For The Intelligence Community, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Ozgur Yilmazel, Svetlana Symonenko, Niranjan Balasubramanian
Improved Document Representation For Classification Tasks For The Intelligence Community, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Ozgur Yilmazel, Svetlana Symonenko, Niranjan Balasubramanian
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
This research addresses the question of whether the AI technologies of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) can be used to improve security within the Intelligence Community (IC).