From ISVG
The Institute for the Study of Violent Groups is a research institute that performs open source collection, exploitation, and analysis on terrorist, extremist, and transnational criminal threats. ISVG leverages the best open source resources of the US Government and the private sector with its unique network of international contacts to analyze open sources through the lens of enhanced cultural understanding of terrorism, extremism, and criminality.
ISVG uses a standardized collection and coding methodology developed over 5 years that organizes the minutiae of terrorist, extremist, criminal and political activities in a comprehensive relational database. This database has more than 300 tables and more than 1,500 variables and is constantly being expanded and appended to capture new signatures and patterns of terrorist, extremist, and criminal activity. ISVG uses a dedicated collection staff to scour open sources, both English language and foreign, to find information on incidents, groups, individuals, and organizations that are entered into the database.
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