and elimination through brute force (Repression) Transition from terrorism into other forms of violence (Reorientation) Databases The following terrorism databases are or were made publicly available for research purposes, and track specific acts of terrorism: Global Terrorism Database, an open-source database by the University of Maryland, College Park on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2017 with more than 150,000 cases. MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Worldwide Incidents Tracking System Tocsearch (dynamic database) The following public report and index provides a summary of key global trends and patterns in terrorism around the world Global Terrorism Index, produced annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace The following publicly available resources index electronic and bibliographic resources on the subject of terrorism Human Security Gateway The following terrorism databases are maintained in secrecy by the United States Government for intelligence and counterterrorism purposes: Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment Terrorist Screening Database Jones and Libicki (2008) includes a table of 268 terrorist groups active between 1968 and 2006 with their status as of 2006: still active, splintered, converted to nonviolence, removed by law enforcement or military, or won. (These data are not in a convenient machine-readable format but are available.) See also Notes References Perspectives on Terrorism's Bibliography: Root Causes of Terrorism. 2017. Further reading Bakker, Edwin. Forecasting the Unpredictable: A Review of Forecasts on Terrorism 2000–2012 (International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, 2014) Burleigh, Michael. Blood and rage: a cultural history of terrorism. Harper, 2009. Chaliand, Gérard and Arnaud Blin, eds. The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda. University of California Press, 2007. Coates, Susan W., Rosenthal, Jane, and Schechter, Daniel S. September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds (New York: Taylor and Francis, Inc., 2003). Crenshaw, Martha, ed. Terrorism in context. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Hennigfeld, Ursula/ Packard, Stephan, ed., Abschied von 9/11? Distanznahme zur Katastrophe. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2013. Hennigfeld, Ursula, ed., Poetiken des Terrors. Narrative des 11. September 2001 im interkulturellen Vergleich. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. Hewitt, Christopher. Understanding terrorism in America (Routledge, 2003). Hewitt, Christopher. "Terrorism and public opinion: A five country comparison." Terrorism and Political Violence 2.2 (1990): 145-170. Jones, Sidney. Terrorism: myths and facts. Jakarta: International Crisis Group, 2013. Land, Isaac, ed., Enemies of humanity: the nineteenth-century war on terrorism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Lee, Newton. Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition). New York: Springer, 2015. Lutz, James and Brenda Lutz. Terrorism