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In order to promote the goals of the Center and to enable increased understanding of legal issues associated with terrorism, the Center for Terrorism Law is affiliated with educational institutions conferring undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The Center also engages in professional exchanges with various business and private organizations in order to contribute to proactive research focusing on antiterrorism and counterterrorism responses. Finally, the Center provides a service as a partner in the San Antonio, Texas community, as well as the national and global communities, by participating in and hosting events that foster professional information exchanges to explore the impact of domestic and international terrorism laws on civil liberties.

Educational Affiliations

Homeland Security/Defense Education, United States Northern Command Consortium
The Homeland Security/Defense Education Consortium (HS/DEC) is a network of teaching and research institutions focused on promoting education, research, and cooperation related to and supporting the homeland security/defense mission.  The consortium is committed to building and maintaining a community of higher education institutions supporting this mission and the overall homeland security effort through the sharing and advancement of knowledge.  In its effort to comprehend and address the threat, HS/DEC supported research and education adopts a broad conception of homeland defense and security.

Role of United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM):  As the DoD lead for homeland security education, USNORTHCOM chairs the HS/DEC steering committee.  USNORTHCOM is located at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, CO.  It was established on October 1, 2002 and is the single military headquarters focused on national defense of the homeland and assisting the nation following a major natural disaster or man-made attack.  There are currently about 500 military and civilian personnel assigned to the four-star command.  The Center for Terrorism Law, St Mary's University School of Law serves as one of the affiliated educational institutions.

University of Virginia School of Law Center for National Security Law

The Center for National Security Law is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary advanced research, scholarship, and education about legal aspects of national security problems.

Established at the University of Virginia School of Law in April 1981 (and known until 1990 as the "Center for Law and National Security"), the Center has an active publications program, sponsors scholarly conferences, and provides instructors and financial assistance for teaching of relevant courses at the School of Law. The Center also sponsors an annual National Security Institute during the summer, designed to provide advanced training for government officials, professors of law, and professors of international relations in this growing field.

Link: http://www.virginia.edu/cnsl/

The Ohio State University

The Consortium comprises public and private academic institutions engaged in scientific research, technology development and transition, education and training, and service programs concerned with current and future U.S. national security challenges, issues, problems and solutions, at home and around the world.  The goal of the National Academic Consortium for Homeland Security is to help improve the security of the U.S. and its worldwide interests, while protecting and preserving its values, freedoms and civil liberties, and economic interests and competitiveness. The specific objectives of the Consortium are to help:

1. Improve understanding of national security issues, especially terrorism and strategies for counter-terrorism;
   
2. Promote development of better-informed public policy, strategy, plans and programs regarding issues; 
   
3. Develop new technologies and transition those technologies into effective, practical and affordable solutions to (current and future) international and homeland security problems; and
   
4. Educate and train the people required by governmental and non-governmental organizations, to effectively accomplish international and homeland security roles and responsibilities. 
   

The primary role of the Consortium is to promote, support and enhance academic research, technology development, education and training, and service programs dealing with all aspects of international and homeland security, through collaboration and information- sharing among academic institutions, researchers and scholars. Our vision is that the Consortium also becomes an effective sounding board and consultative body to assist federal-government decision makers in developing more effective national policies and programs concerning academic research and technology development, education and training, and related service programs pertaining to national security.

Link: http://www.academiccontinuity.org/?q=node/310

Community Affiliations

Organizational Affiliations

The Center for Terrorism Law is supported inpart by a subcontract withThe University of Texas at San Antonio. Accordingly, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedby the Center are those of the Center and do not necessarily relect the views of TheUniversity of Texas at San Antonio. Similarly,any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed by theCenter for Terrorism Law do not necessarily reflect the views of any other entity or organization to includeSt. Mary's University or St. Mary's University School of Law.

Center for Infrastructure Assurrance and Security (CIAS)
The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) is the research arena at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The CIAS is designed to leverage San Antonio's Infrastructure Assurance and Security (IAS) strengths as part of the solution to the nation's Homeland Defense needs and deficit of IAS talent and resources. The CIAS has successfully integrated academic, government and industry efforts resulting in a dynamic organization dedicated to infrastructure assurance, research and education. It is the anchor of a collaborative multi-tiered program focused on growing San Antonio's IAS talent and supporting national IAS Research and Development.

Link: http://www.utsa.edu/cias

Air Intelligence Agency (AIA)
Air Intelligence Agency with headquarters at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, was activated Oct. 1, 1993. On Feb. 1, 2001, AIA was realigned under Air Combat Command as a primary subordinate unit and serves as its primary information operations force provider normalizing and synchronizing IO capabilities into the warfighter's arsenal. The agency's mission is to deliver multi-source intelligence products, applications, services, and resources. It also provides IO forces and expertise in the areas of information warfare, command and control warfare, security, acquisition, foreign weapons systems and technology, and treaty monitoring, to support Air Force major commands, Air Force components, and joint and national decision makers.

Link: www.fas.org/irp/agency/aia/index.html

Network Information and Space Security Center (NISSC)
Established at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the NISSC mission is to facilitate cooperation and collaboration between its constituencies in the military, industry, academia, and government in order to meet the challenges presented by homeland security and homeland defense.

Link: http://www.nissc.org

The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) was established in 1996 at the academic Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC) in Israel. ICT is unique in that it focuses solely on the subject of counter-terrorism. All of its efforts and resources are dedicated to approaching the issue of terrorism globally - that is, as a strategic problem that faces not only Israel but other countries as well. In todayÃÆ’Æ’Ã ¢Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡ ¬ ¢s global village, regional conflicts extend beyond national borders. The International Policy Institute seeks international cooperation in the global struggle against terrorism, paving the way for multilateral action against terrorist networks, benefactors, and states sponsoring terrorism. ICT is a research institute and think tank dedicated to developing innovative public policy solutions to international terrorism. The Institute aims to affect policy at the highest levels, in joint cooperation with the world community.

Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR) is an American and Israeli nonprofit corporation created to help organizations succeed and prosper in a world threatened by terrorism. ITRR's Israeli and American experts provide counter-terrorism training, seminars, and security specialization in dealing with threats such as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), suicide bombers, and other forms of international terror striking both the public and private sector. ITRR established the Targeted Actionable Monitoring Center (TAM-C) to provide accurate and actionable intelligence about potential security threats throughout the world. With a multilingual team of researchers and analysts, TAM-C gathers and provides intelligence on terrorist activities and plans, information on international hot-spots, historical "red-flag" dates, and real-time security alerts. Operating under the auspices and with the resources of TAM-C, the Ground Truth Network (GTN) leverages ITRR's international contacts and sources to provide real-time intelligence from the field. In this way, the Ground Truth Network keeps international corporations apprised of threats to their assets and personnel throughout the world.

Link: www.terrorresponse.org