CPOST Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism

American Political Violence

On Jan 6, 2021, supporters of former President Trump stormed the US Capitol and initiated a myriad of violent and destructive acts inside the building, shocking the nation and leaving many to wonder about the potential of future violence. In the wake of this organized riot, Robert Pape, Keven Ruby and a team of CPOST researchers compiled and analyzed a dataset of all individuals arrested by the FBI and Washington DC police for offenses related to the storming of the Capitol and found several trends that point to a larger mass political movement that has violence at its core.

On April 6th CPOST released a major update to its Capitol Hill Insurrection analysis and wider movement based on three separate studies.

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Database on Suicide Attacks

CPOST is proud to, once again, make our Database on Suicide Attacks (DSAT) publicly available. Major updates were made to the DSAT — which now includes ways to link the DSAT to the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, among other improvements.

Professor Robert Pape, Alejandro Albanez, and Alexandra Chinchilla wrote a Special Data Feature in the Journal of Peace Research, titled Introducing the New CPOST Dataset on Suicide Attacks, to formally introduce the DSAT to the world. To enhance and facilitate access to our database, CPOST developed a user friendly dashboard with interactive graphics to explore stats and trends from all suicide attacks included in the DSAT.