• New CTC Report: Letters from Abbottabad (May 2012)
• New Article: Perception Challenges Faced by Al-Qaeda on the Battlefield of Influence Warfare (J. Forest, April 2012)
• Special Issue of the journal Terrorism and Political Violence 24(2) on Intersections of Crime and Terror
• New Resource on Homegrown Terrorism by the New America Foundation
  
  
• New Issue of the CTC Sentinel, published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point
• New Book: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism (2nd Edition), by James Forest and Russell Howard (McGraw-Hill, 2012)
• Download the free 2012 Counterterrorism Calendar [ large PDF ] courtesy of NCTC
• New Report: Edges of Radicalization: Ideas, Individuals and Networks in Violent Extremism, by Scott Helfstein (CTC 2012)

• My blog (JamesForest.com)
• Article: Nigeria's Terrorism Problem
• Journal Special issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, on Terrorism in Africa, with articles by Jennifer Giroux, James Forest, Freedom Onuoha, Ibaba Samuel Ibaba, Alex Wilner, and more.
• Article: "Ungoverned Territories" in Atlantic Perspective

• National Counterterrorism Strategy, 2011
• Information on terrorist groups:
  • Terrorist Groups, courtesy of the National Counterterrorism Center
  • Terrorist Organization Profiles (TOPS), courtesy of START (U. Maryland)
• Conference Report: Threat Convergence Summit in Zurich, 2010 (See p. 7 for the plenary featuring John Brennan and James Forest)

• Report: Congressional Hearing on Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, featuring Jarret Brachman, Chris Boucek and Barak Barfi (March 2, 2011)
• Report: Terrorist Innovations in Weapons of Mass Effect, by Maria Rassmussen and Mohammed Hafez
• Free Book: Towards a Curriculum for the Teaching of Jihadist Ideology by Stephen Ulph, Jamestown Foundation - provides an introduction to the intellectual infrastructure of the jihadist phenomenon and the process of radicalization

• Combating Violent Extremism: The Counterradicalization Debate in 2011, featuring Peter Neumann, Maajid Nawaz, and Matthew Levitt. Click here for the summary report. You can also download the MP3 audio files of their presentations
• Report: Assaf Moghadam and Brian Fishman, eds. Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qaida and its Periphery (December 2010, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)
• "Zones of Competing Governance," by James Forest - presentation at ISA 2011, Montreal (Powerpoint Slides)
• Updated Call for Authors: Praeger Security International series - the PSI Guides to Terrorists, Insurgents, and Armed Groups (now includes organized criminal networks, gangs, etc.)

• Give to the General Wayne Downing Foundation
• Earn a Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security from the Bush School at Texas A&M University
• Earn a Graduate Certificate (multiple options) from the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at UMass Lowell

New Books Published in the Praeger Security International Series:

• Watching the Watchers, by Jarret Brachman (Foreign Policy, July 2010)
• The Sentinel [PDF] (the monthly Journal of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)
• The Almanac of Al Qaida, by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedman (Foreign Policy, May/June 2010)
• The Role of the Military in Combating Violent Extremism, (Congressional testimony before a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee) by James Forest (March 10, 2010)

• Sheikh to Terrorists: Go to Hell, by Christian Caryl (Foreign Policy, April 14, 2010)
• The Failure of Jihad in Saudi Arabia by Thomas Hegghammer, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (Feb. 25, 2010)
• Renowned Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri issues 600-page anti-terrorism fatwa
  (here's an additional link to a BBC story on this, and here's a link to Qadri's Islamic library website)