Violent Intranational Political Conflict & Terrorism (VIPCAT)
Welcome to the VIPCAT Research Laboratory website. The lab was established in June of 2007 by a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security to facilitate inquiry into the causes and consequences of violent political conflict and terrorism. The lab was moved and re-established at the College of William & Mary in August 2008. Specifically, the laboratory focuses on collecting and analyzing data on the strategic behavior of state and nonstate actors. Moreover, the laboratory examines the consequences of such behavioral interactions such as population displacement and the spread of disease. Read More »
VIPCAT Projects
Project Civil Strife focuses on disaggregation of political conflict. The project disaggregates actors, tactics, time, and space and analyzes conflict-cooperation processes among myriad actors in South and Southeast Asia.
Intelligent Handling of Unstructured Text focuses on turning unstructured text into quantitative data. Historically, we focusedon coding English languagenews sources into events data but have more recently developed capabilities to code “sentiment” and code events from foreign language sources.
Support for the Emergence of Political Violence & Extremism Research Endeavor focuses on analyzing the attitudes of individuals and explaining which factors are associated with the emergence of political violence. We’ve been granted exclusive access to surveys in Pakistan and Iran to analyze and initial findings are forthcoming in two journal articles.
Forced Migration Project focuses on analyzing, explaining, and predicting refugee and internally-displaced persons.
Integrated Crisis Early Warning System focuses on building early warning models of political conflict. Our models are able to forecast occurrences of rebellion, insurgency and ethnic religious conflict with 85%-95% accuracy in 29 countries of South and Southeast Asia.
Partners
Artificial Intelligence Center at the University of Georgia
SWOTT
Center for International Political Analysis