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MA from Hebrew University, Israel, in 1996
Professor Victor Asal (Department of Political Science) received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 2003 and his MA from Hebrew University, Israel, in 1996. He is a specialist in Comparative Politics and International Relations and his research currently focuses on why some groups of people decide to kill people they do not know and other groups decide to discriminate against or restrict the rights of people they do not know. For example, working with his colleague R. Karl Rethemeyer and many honors college students, they have built a large data base on terrorist organizations, the Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) database, to explore questions such as: Why, of the 395 identifiable terrorist organizations operating between 1998 and 2005, had only 39% killed anyone ?” (Professor Asal is pictured with five 2010 honors graduates who worked on one of his research projects.)
