By Serena Cheung – Executive Summary – The escalating unpredictability and severity of natural disasters, compounded by the effects of climate change, underscore the critical need for innovative forecasting methods. This urgency is highlighted by the record-breaking 28 weather and […]
Canary in the Coal Mine: Animal Behavior Sounding the Alarm for Natural Disasters →
By Kyle A. Dowdy – Executive Summary – Native American tribes have found themselves in the midst of many challenges, encompassing old and outdated infrastructure, a scarcity of viable employment opportunities, and the widespread concerns of poverty and compromised health conditions. This
By Michael Pfaltzgraff – Executive Summary – One of the most stressful and dangerous situations a firefighter may ever encounter is calling a Mayday – when a firefighter is trapped, lost, disoriented, or otherwise incapable of getting to safety. Between
By Bobby Garcia – Executive Summary – The rising volume of irregular migrants poses a significant challenge for the U.S. government. Although irregular migrants were once composed predominantly of Mexican and Central American nationals, the makeup of contemporary migrant flows
By Christopher Huhn – Executive Summary – “Honey this our opportunity to be together mylove, i will never do anything that will hurt you, mylove noting bad is going to happen, i promise the money there is my money and
By Matthew Davison – Executive Summary – Electoral violence was a common occurrence during Reconstruction (1865-1877). The concentrated terror around voting rights and elections was not random. Nearly every local and national election during the decade after the Civil War
Reconstruction Terror: Origins, Applications, and Implications →
By Eric M. Cooper – Executive Summary – Both the executive and legislative branches of government have mandated that evidence-based policymaking be implemented in federal governmental decisional processes.[1] Evidence-based policymaking is the theory that governments should develop “public policies, programs,
Defeating and Deterring Domestic Terrorists Through Evidence-Based Policymaking →
By Jonathan Miller – Executive Summary – The objective of this thesis is to identify the extent to which defining cyberspace as a domain will affect the formulation of homeland security enterprise (HSE) policy related to cyberspace in the future.
The Space Between: Policy Implications for the Conceptualization of Cyberspace as a Domain →
By Katie Riesner – Executive Summary – Mass migrations arriving at the southwest border of the United States are increasingly overwhelming the U.S. government’s ability to respond. When these events overwhelm U.S. immigration authorities, they can exacerbate security vulnerabilities. For
A Surge on the Horizon: Improving U.S. Foresight Capacity to Anticipate Mass Migrations →
By Jonathan Graham – Executive Summary – Many Americans disapproved of the immigration enforcement policies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during the Trump administration. This thesis begins by asking what can be learned about DHS’s communications strategy during
