Analyzing Terrorism Using Spatial Analysis Techniques: A Case Study of Turkish Cities

Rusnak, Danielle M.; Kennedy, Leslie W.; Eldivan, Ibrahim Sevki; Caplan, Joel M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0953-3_8

“…Some of our other novel findings are that while geography and fractionalization may limit a county's ability to curb terrorism, the presence of strong legal institutions deters it. Rusnak et al (2012) demonstrate the use of location quotients to control for social and physical contextual risk in Turkey, a nation that has experienced high levels of terrorism. They discuss how counterterrorism resources combined with proper data can be directed to geographic areas where attacks are most likely to occur.…”

Section: Literature On Relations Between Terrorism and Its Economic Imentioning

confidence: 97%

The Impacts of Political Terrorism on Gross Domestic Product in Eurasia: A Spatial Data Analysis

Altay¹,

Çelebioğlu²

2015

EJBE

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“…For example, the field of terrorism research has undergone a geographical shift [89] and geography should provide more support in the security field [90]. Some scholars have used geographical methods to study the relationship between domestic and global terrorism [91], performed geographical profiling by combining locations of various terrorist attack incidents, identified their spatial patterns [74], assessed terrorism risks in a region, and analyzed the spatial distribution patterns of a region's vulnerability [79], [80]. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has designed a map of global terrorism indicators (GTI) to describe the main spatial distribution patterns and trends of global terrorism [92] (Figure 1).…”

Section: B Security Situation Awareness and Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geosocial Media as a Proxy for Security: A Review

Han¹,

Li²,

Cui³

et al. 2022

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<p>Since the rapid growth of urban populations, the study of urban systems has gained considerable attention from researchers, decision makers, governments, and organizations. Urban systems are complex and dynamic such that they produce emergent patterns such as self-organization and nonlinearity. Agent-based modelling presents an approach to simulating and abstracting urban systems to reveal and study emergent patterns from urban-related entities. However, agent-based models are difficult to effectively optimize and validate without high quality real-world data. Geosocial media data provides agent-based models with location-enabled data at high volumes and frequencies. Integrating agent-based models with geosocial media data presents opportunities in advancing and developing studies in urban systems. This paper provides a general overview of concepts, review of recent applications, and discussion of challenges and opportunities in the context of using geosocial media data in agent-based models for urban systems. We argue that ABMs focused on studying urban systems can benefit greatly from geosocial media data, given that research moves towards standard guidelines that enable the comparison and effective use of ABMs, and geosocial media data under appropriate circumstances and applications. </p>

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“…For example, the field of terrorism research has undergone a geographical shift [89] and geography should provide more support in the security field [90]. Some scholars have used geographical methods to study the relationship between domestic and global terrorism [91], performed geographical profiling by combining locations of various terrorist attack incidents, identified their spatial patterns [74], assessed terrorism risks in a region, and analyzed the spatial distribution patterns of a region's vulnerability [79], [80]. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has designed a map of global terrorism indicators (GTI) to describe the main spatial distribution patterns and trends of global terrorism [92] (Figure 1).…”

Section: B Security Situation Awareness and Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geosocial Media as a Proxy for Security: A Review

Han

¹

,

Li

²

,

Cui

³

et al. 2019

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Security issues such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks have attracted increasing global concern and attention. How to effectively detect security events has become worrisome to countries worldwide. Advances in mobile Internet technology have led to hundreds of millions of users using social media daily to post microblogs, text messages and multimedia information, generating enormous amounts of social media data that reflect people's social behaviors. Studies have proven that the timely intelligence can be extracted from these data. In particular, geosocial media when combined with location information can be used as a proxy for security event detection and security situational awareness. This paper provides a synopsis of the geosocial media data and the related processing/analysis methods used for detecting security events, and summarizes the general framework of security-related analyses based on geosocial media. Four major categories of analysis methods and application cases, including natural language processing, social network analysis, location inference and geospatial analysis, and image or video understanding, are discussed in detail. The paper concludes with possible future directions and areas of research that could be addressed and investigated. We hope to provide a clarion call to the scientists, practitioners, and other stakeholders to enhance the capabilities and accuracy of security events detection and security situational awareness and assessment using geosocial media.

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Analyzing Terrorism Using Spatial Analysis Techniques: A Case Study of Turkish Cities

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The Impacts of Political Terrorism on Gross Domestic Product in Eurasia: A Spatial Data Analysis

The Impacts of Political Terrorism on Gross Domestic Product in Eurasia: A Spatial Data Analysis

Geosocial Media as a Proxy for Security: A Review

Geosocial Media as a Proxy for Security: A Review

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