The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organisation, think-tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. The CFR defence and security thematic area offers several resources on various topics and regions relevant to CT.
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point educates, advises, and conducts research to equip present and future leaders with the intellectual tools necessary to understand the challenges of terrorism and counter-terrorism. CTC offers diverse regional expertise on counter-terrorism topics and publications covering several relevant actors and groups.
The Chatham House's mission is to help governments and societies build a sustainable, secure, prosperous and just world through dialogue, research and leadership, and examining the latest thinking on counter-terrorism strategies, ‘lone-wolf terrorism’, cyber terrorism, domestic terrorism and threats from jihadist groups.
CVTRC, as part of Royal Holloway University, has research interests focused on understanding societies and cultures from new perspectives and generating thoughtful enquiry about the functioning of human societies and cultures. Their primary research strengths are in modern Europe, terrorism and radicalisation, and modern intellectual history, especially in the areas of political ideas, religion, and identity.
As a research center, CTEC applies advanced analytical approaches to deepen academic, tech, and policymakers' understanding of challenging emergent extremist threats. As an academic institution, CTEC mentors and prepares students to be the next generation of analysts, researchers and practitioners.
The Centre for the Prevention of Violence of Radicalisation Leading to Violence (CPRLV) is the first independent non-profit organisation aimed at preventing radicalisation leading to violence and hate-motivated acts by educating, mobilising and supporting the people of Montreal and Quebec in a community-based approach that is deployed in order to take pre-emptive action, oriented towards accessibility for all, in collaboration with partners from all backgrounds and rooted in both scientific and practical expertise.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a bipartisan, non-profit policy research organisation dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges. CSIS offers projects and publications on patterns in global terrorism and the evolution of CT practices today.
The Centre for Asymmetric Threats and Terrorist Studies (CATS) is a national center within the Swedish Defence University tasked with developing and disseminating knowledge about asymmetric threats within the context of societal security and resilience. Through research, analysis and training, CATS concentrates on terrorism and intelligence studies, as well as cyber and influence operation.
The Center for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) brings together expertise in understanding the psychological and social drivers of the threat, the skills and technologies that enable its effective investigation, and the protective security measures that help counter the threat in the first place. CREST offers projects on CVE, Cyber Actors, Disinformation, VE, Radicalisation and Risk Assessment.
The Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK) provides research, analysis and commentary on conflicts and strategic issues. ISPK is committed to furthering the security policy discourse in Germany and abroad through focused, interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research.