2017 UAPI Summit Special Issue

Director’s Introduction to the UAPI Summit Special Issue

For the 2017 UAPI Summit Special Issue, Homeland Security Affairs presents the best papers from the 2017 University and Agency Partnership Initiative (UAPI) Summit Conference. This issue also contains executive summaries from eleven other outstanding papers from the UAPI Summit. All of the papers submitted for presentation at the meeting were vetted by an academic jury, and then the five best papers were selected by the Homeland Security Affairs Editorial Committee. Read more.

2017 UAPI Summit Special Issue

Protecting the Right to Be an American: How Pennsylvanians Perceive Homeland Security

by Alexander Siedschlag Introduction  Homeland Security is strategically defined as an enterprise based on a concerted national effort: a nation-wide comprehensive activity, including all of government across federal, state, local, territorial and tribal tiers; the public and the private sector; …

Protecting the Right to Be an American: How Pennsylvanians Perceive Homeland Security

Mass Migration and the Media: Convergence and Divergence of Global Media Narratives Towards a Working Model

by Emily Damm, Amy Jones, Skye Cooley, and Elizabeth Roshelli The size and scope of the Syrian refugee crisis has made it a salient humanitarian crisis for the international community that has given rise to fears among European and U.S. …

Mass Migration and the Media: Convergence and Divergence of Global Media Narratives Towards a Working Model

The State of Science Regarding Membership in Terrorist Organizations  and Perpetration of Terrorist Attacks

by Sarah L. Desmarais, Joseph Simons-Rudolph, Christine Shahan Brugh, Eileen Schilling, & Chad Hoggan North Carolina State University Background One strategy in the fight against terrorism involves identifying individuals who are at heightened risk of joining terrorist organizations or perpetrating terrorist …

The State of Science Regarding Membership in Terrorist Organizations  and Perpetration of Terrorist Attacks

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