The illicit antiquities market is fueled by a well-documented rise in looting at archaeological sites and a fear that the proceeds of such looting may be financing terrorism or rogue states. In this report, the authors compile evidence from numerous open sources to outline the major policy-relevant characteristics of that market and to propose the way forward for developing policies intended to disrupt illicit networks.

Tracking and Disrupting the Illicit Antiquities Trade with Open Source Data

Sargent, Matthew

Marrone, James V.

Lilly, Bilyana

Evans, Alexandra

Nemeth, Erik

Dalzell, Stephen

Business & Money

RAND Corporation

The Risk-Mitigation Value of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential: A Comprehensive Security Assessment of the TWIC Program

Costello, Katherine

Metz, David

Klima, Kelly

Chan, Edward W.

Ligor, Douglas C.

Haldeman, Zachary

Chang, Joseph C.

Hill, Devon

Williams, Heather J.

Soliman, Sarah

Van Abel, Kristin

Véronneau, Simon

Mitch, Ian

Bauer, Ryan Michael

Traub, Joshua Lawrence

Industries

Equal Access International (EAI)'s countering violent extremism (CVE)-themed programming involves training local civil society members in Mindanao to design and implement locally based CVE campaigns. This report contains an evaluation of and recommendations from a set of EAI tech camps and fellowships in the Philippines. The authors of this report include research from a study of EAI CVE radio programming on Mindanao.

Promoting Peace as the Antidote to Violent Extremism: Evaluation of a Philippines-Based Tech Camp and Peace Promotion Fellowship (Countering Violent Extremism)

History

Helmus, Todd C.

Rhoades, Ashley L.

Bodine-Baron, Elizabeth

Smith, Victoria M.

Asia

Given the size and scope of the Russian propaganda campaign that targeted the U.S. electorate in 2016, it is critical to understand the impact of that campaign and mechanisms that can reduce the impact of future campaigns. This report, the third in a series, describes a study that assessed how people react to and engage with this propaganda, and found that media literacy advisories and labeling the source of the propaganda had a counter effect.

Russian Propaganda Hits Its Mark: Experimentally Testing the Impact of Russian Propaganda and Counter-Interventions

Computers & Technology

Posard, Marek N.

Schlang, Danielle

Networking & Cloud Computing

The U.S. Army invests significant resources in recruiting, training, and preparing new soldiers. When a soldier does not complete a full contract term, the Army views this as a net loss. The goal of the research summarized in this report is to determine whether organizational factors matter for producing attrition and to generate hypotheses regarding the mechanisms by which organizational factors generate attrition. The authors made use of the random assignment of soldiers to their first battalion to determine whether the "luck of the draw"-the battalion to which the soldier is assigned and the senior noncommissioned officer (NCO) at that battalion-is directly linked to the observed variation across assignments in eventual first-term outcomes. The authors complemented that analysis with interviews exploring the factors that could be driving differences across units, such as leadership and command culture, availability of soldier supports, management of deployment and training cycles, and installation amenities. The quantitative part of the report shows that organizational factors affect attrition above and beyond the effects of soldier characteristics. The qualitative part highlights potential pathways through which battalion-level characteristics might manifest in differential attrition outcomes. Rather than conceptualizing attrition as a soldier being "fired" for poor performance, this report describes attrition as a process in which leadership may fail to provide needed interventions or to perpetuate a culture in which soldiers want to and are able to remain in service. The authors identify opportunities to address the factors under the Army's control that are associated with attrition. Book jacket.

Organizational and Cultural Causes of Army First-Term Attrition

Jensen, Rebecca

Kidder, Katherine L.

Panis, Christina

Constant, Louay

Zimmerman, S. Rebecca

Military

Mapping White Identity Terrorism and Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism: A Social Network Analysis of Online Activity

Marcellino, William

Jackson, Brian A.

Matthews, Luke J.

DeNardo, Matthew A.

Moore, Pauline

Reference

Risk-Informed Analysis of Transportation Worker Identification Credential Reader Requirements

Bauer, Ryan

Colbert-Kelly, Sean

Gierlack, Keith

Leuschner, Kristin J.

Kolb, Chelsea

To investigate stakeholders' perceptions of fifth-generation (5G) technologies and how those perceptions could affect 5G's use for homeland security, researchers used a combination of literature review, social network and lexical analysis, reviews of existing data and studies in the commercial space, interviews, focus groups, workshops, and expert panel interviews. This report summarizes their findings and recommendations.

Public Perceptions of 5G Technologies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Boudreaux, Benjamin

Mills, Brian

Cunningham, Daniel

Reininger, Hilary

Bradley, Melissa A.

Yeung, Douglas

Weidmer, Beverly A.

Henriquez Sanchez, Natalia

Chesler, Aisha Najera

Eyerman, Joe

Stapleton, Patricia A.

Donohue, Richard H.

Keyes, Tiffany

Mehta, Karishma R.

Deen, Thomas

Kang, Sarah Junghee

Crafts & Hobbies

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