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Applications must be submitted via START’s website here. Applications submitted via Handshake will NOT be considered. Please note that the Fall 2022 internship program will be in person at START headquarters in College Park, MD. Remote internships will not be possible for the Fall 2022 semester. START offers paid internships year round on a variety of research projects and teams. During the course of their internship, participants are exposed to the most up-to-date theories, methods and information related to the …
*Applications must be submitted through START’s website here. Applications submitted via Handshake will NOT be considered.* DESCRIPTION This internship will support START research focused on the processes of extremist radicalization in the United States. The core component of this research portfolio is the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) dataset, which contains information on the trajectories, mechanisms, and consequences of violent and non-violent extremism at the individual level. PIRUS and its related projects have generated significant attention …
*Applications must be submitted through START’s website here. Applications submitted via Handshake will NOT be considered.* DESCRIPTION Interns recruited for these positions will be part of the data collection team responsible for START’s flagship project–the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)–and the team’s newest initiative focusing in more detail on terrorism and targeted violence in the United States (T2V). The GTD is the most comprehensive unclassified terrorism database in the world. Currently updated through 2019, the GTD details information on more than …
*Applications must be submitted through START’s website here. Applications submitted via Handshake will NOT be considered.* DESCRIPTION The International Crisis Behavior Project (ICB) has for over 40 years collected and analyzed data on all military security crises in the international system, from 1918 to the present. ICB focuses on crucial themes including crisis trigger, major response, crisis management techniques, third party intervention including mediation, and forms of crisis outcomes. The project is currently engaged in collecting and analyzing data on …