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Terrorist Attacks on Educational Institutions
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
USA | 2014 |
Author: 
Erin Miller
Corporate author: 
START, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism; Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology
Region: 
Global

The report describes historical patterns of terrorist attacks targeting educations institutions dating back to 1970. Since that year, more than 3,400 terrorist attacks targeting educations institutions took place in 110 countries. These attacks comprised 2.7 percent of all terrorist attacks worldwide during this time period.

Resource Type: 
International normative instruments / policy and advocacy documents
Research papers / journal articles
Theme: 
Civic / Citizenship / Democracy
Globalisation and social justice / International understanding
Others
Level of education: 
Higher education
Other
Keywords: 
human rights
conflict
indicators
religious