Newspaper Article

UMass Lowell gets $2 million grant to study

2014

Overview

UMass Lowell professor and CTSS director John Horgan, with his colleague Professor Scott Flower from the University of Melbourne, Australia, were selected to receive a $1.13 million Minerva grant for their project \"Understanding American Muslim Converts in the Contexts of Security and Society.\" UMass Lowell Professor Mia Bloom's project mapping the pathways of children's mobilization into terrorism was selected to receive a $941,169 Minerva grant. The project, \"Preventing the Next Generation,\" will examine how and why children are increasingly involved in terrorist operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Somalia. \"We've noticed an increasing trend of terrorist organizations using children,\" Bloom said. \"This research is intended to identify precisely how children get involved and how to interrupt and stop the process. The research will contrast children in terrorist groups with child soldiers and children in gangs to better understand how they are alike and how they differ.\"

• Publisher: The Lowell Sun
• Subject: Bloom, Mia / Horgan, John