INTREPID©

International Network on Terrorism, Radicalization, Extremism, and Political and Irregular Warfare—Directorate

This program aims to be a central online hub and clearinghouse of think tanks, consultancies, agencies, and offices that analyze, recommend, and/or execute narrative-focused strategies and operations. This webpage is only the beginning.

The focus of this program, more specifically, is on narrative strategies for irregular warfare, unconventional warfare, and countering violent extremism. 

Unlike these other fine offices and agencies (listed below), when Narrative Strategies, LLC analyzes non-state actors, it is in the larger strategic context of overlapping narrative environments to include considerations in multiple fields and disciplines. 

Also, unlike these other respected entities, Narrative Strategies, LLC comprises or regularly reaches out to current strategic leaders and practitioners as well as those in the: 

•    Fine arts (especially screenwriting and other storytelling disciplines)

•    Humanities (especially history, philosophy, and literature)

•    Social sciences (especially anthropology and psychology)

•    Physical sciences (especially neurobiology)

We hope researchers and professionals in the private and public sectors find the INTREPID© program helpful especially as the number of counterterrorism and irregular warfare think/do tanks continues to increase throughout the world.

The following are some online resources on terrorism, radicalization, extremism, political violence, irregular warfare, and information warfare—organizations and offices that sometimes refer to narrative warfare in their publications:

• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence: http://icsr.info/category/publications/  

• Institute for Strategic Dialogue: https://www.isdglobal.org  (Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s CounterExtremism.Org: https://www.counterextremism.org/) 

• Project Narrative, Ohio State University: https://projectnarrative.osu.edu/

• Center for the Study of Narrative and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University: http://cncr.gmu.edu

• University of Maryland National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START): http://www.start.umd.edu/ 

• The George Washington University Program on Extremism: https://cchs.gwu.edu/publications 

• Quantum Communications: http://www.quantum.com.lb/

• University of New Haven Institute for the Study of Violent Groups: http://www.isvg.org/organization.php  

• Stanford University: http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/ 

• Hedayah Global Counterterrorism Forum: http://www.hedayah.ae/   

• Combating Terrorism Center at West Point: https://www.ctc.usma.edu/  

• Valens Global: http://valensglobal.com/threat-assessments/ 

• The Brookings Institution: https://www.brookings.edu/topic/islamist-movements/ 

• RAND: http://www.rand.org/topics/terrorist-organizations.html  

• Government Affairs Sawab Centre: http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/default3.asp?ID=534  

• Home Office Proscribed Terrorist Organizations: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/538297/20160715-Proscription-website-update.pdf  

• U.S. Department of State: http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/ and http://www.state.gov/j/ct/     

• National Counterterrorism Center: https://www.nctc.gov/site/groups.html  

• Australian Government National Security Listed Terrorist Organizations: https://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Listedterroristorganisations/Pages/default.aspx  

• Canada Public Safety Currently Listed Organizations: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/crrnt-lstd-ntts-eng.aspx  

• BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world (search for terrorist group profiles by region)

• The Economist: http://www.economist.com/topics/terrorism 

• The Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism of The Henry Jackson Society: http://henryjacksonsociety.org/crrt/

• The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE): http://www.icsve.org/ 

• The Global Center on Cooperative Security’s CVE program: http://www.globalcenter.org/topics/countering-violent-extremism/ 

• Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Commission on Countering Violent Extremism: https://www.csis.org/events/csis-commission-countering-violent-extremism 

• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Center of Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE): http://www.icepcve.org/ 

• International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague: https://icct.nl/topic/countering-violent-extremism/ 

• The Commonwealth program on countering violent extremism: http://thecommonwealth.org/countering-violent-extremism 

• U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism: https://www.state.gov/j/ct/ 

• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program on countering violent extremism: https://www.usaid.gov/countering-violent-extremism 

• The Counter Extremism Project (CEP): https://www.counterextremism.com/ 

• U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) program on violent extremism: https://www.usip.org/issue-areas/violent-extremism 

• Search for Common Ground’s program on violent extremism: https://www.sfcg.org/tag/violent-extremism/ 

• Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC): https://www.trackingterrorism.org 

We will soon add relevant webpage URLs and contact information for some of the following organizations:

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

American Foreign Policy Council

Arms Control Association

Asia Society

Aspen Institute

Atlantic Council of the United States

The Brookings Institution

Canadian Institute of International Affairs

Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Cato Institute

Center for Defense Information

Center for Global Development

Center for Global Security Research

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Center for the Study of Intelligence

Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (Center for International Studies and Research)

Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute

Clingendael (Netherlands Institutes of International Relations)

Council on Foreign Relations

Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Auswaertige Politik (German Council on Foreign Relations)

East-West Institute

Eisenhower Institute

Federation of American Scientists

Foreign Policy Association

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Freedom House

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Henry L. Stimson Center

The Heritage Foundation

Hudson Institute

Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (French Institute of International Relations)

Institute for International Economics

Institute for Policy Studies

Inter-American Dialogue

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

International Crisis Group

International Institute for Strategic Studies

International Peace Academy

Lexington Institute

Middle East Media Research Institute

National Bureau of Asian Research

National Defense University

Naval War College

New America Foundation

Nixon Center

Pacific Council on International Policy

Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Strategic Studies Institute, Army War College

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

World Economic Forum

World Policy Institute