Schar School of Policy and Government

Since the early 1990s, Congress has mandated that the State Department produce a report on global terrorism. Meet the Schar School team that is doing that.

When Haider Semaisim works on the federally mandated database of global incidents of terrorism with George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, he does so with pride. It is not only an educational and professional endeavor, he said. “It’s personal.”

To defend against terrorism, you have to understand it. Thanks to more than a dozen students, alumni and faculty at George Mason University working on a digital terrorism database, everyone from policy makers to researchers around the world will be a step closer to that goal.

More than 70 graduate and professional students from 14 different majors received advice and practice in networking at a recent event on George Mason University’s Arlington Campus.