Countering terrorism requires cooperation among federal, state, and local response agencies, researchers, and analysts.  This cooperation demands improved communication and collaboration technologies that permit effective data and knowledge sharing across organizations.  In response to these new challenges, since July 2001, The Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) and The University of Oklahoma (OU) under the direction of Dr. Hermann Gruenwald and Dr. Le Gruenwald have established a partnership to create the MIPT Terrorism Database System.  This system acts as a 'one-stop shopping place' where authorized users can find comprehensive information and intelligence on terrorism 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and anywhere in the world through the Internet.

The system provides users with access to three MIPT-sponsored databases: RAND Terrorism Chronology Database, RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database, and MIPT Indictment Database.  The first two databases were compiled by the RAND corporation, of which the RAND Terrorism Chronology Database records international terrorist incidents occurred between 1968 and 1997, while the RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database records domestic and international terrorist incidents occurred from 1998 to present.  The MIPT Indictment Database compiled by both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and The University of Oklahoma records terrorist court cases that have taken place in the U.S. since 1978.

Through the MIPT Terrorism Database System, authorized users are able to search and retrieve terrorism data detailed descriptions as well as analysis statistics.  Users have options to view predefined reports, access graphical summaries, create and execute their own queries, and search the database using different types of keyword searches.

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