About STR

The Society for Terrorism Research was founded in June 2006 in reaction to the absence of any then-existing integrated and multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the area of terrorism and political violence research. The idea for STR was conceived by Dr. Samuel Justin Sinclair, who proposed the idea his colleagues, Drs. LoCicero, Commons, and Ross. Together, they founded STR and comprised its initial governing board. Dr. LoCicero was elected as the first STR President.

The first public announcement of the formation of STR was made at the 2006 Conference of the American Psychological Association, during a symposium on Addressing Terrorism From a Developmental Perspective.

Also in 2006, Dr. Tali Walters joined the STR Governing Board, and led the effort to conduct the first annual STR Conference, which was held in collaboration with Coloquios Internationales sobre Cerebro y Agresión (CICA) in Madrid, Spain, in 2007.

In 2007, at the first CICA-STR Conference, Dr. LoCicero officially stepped down as the first President of STR, and was succeeded by Dr. Sinclair.

Two additions to the Governing Board took place in September 2007, when Drs. Adam Brown and Daniel Antonius assumed the roles of Secretary and Director of Public Relations and Communications, respectively. Dr. Kimberly Bistis joined the Governing Board in 2008 as a Member-at-Large.