Counterterrorism Training

This course introduces the Seven-Stage Hate Model (SHM). The SHM is a predictive tool that tracks hate groups from inception to full maturity.

A hate group, if unimpeded, passes through seven successive stages.  In the first four stages, hate groups vocalize their beliefs and in the last three stages, they act on their beliefs.

A transition period exists between verbal violence and acting that violence out. Prior to the groups transition to acting out violence interdiction has the greatest probability of success.

The Seven-Stage Hate Model can be used to predict violence before it occurs. Observers can track individuals and groups as they pass through each of the seven stages and develop intervention strategies before violence occurs.

This Model is universal and extends to terrorist groups. It explains why people willingly detonate suicide bombs and what motivates people to become terrorists and suicide bombers.

This course provides tools for predicting violence and provides intervention and interdiction techniques to prevent violence. The Group Immersion Dynamic and the Personal Pronoun Index determine commitment of terrorists and provide techniques to interview terrorists with a full range of commitment from sympathizer to jihadist.

This course provides practical tools to interview terrorists. The Group Immersion Model determines the level of indoctrination of group members. The students will learn how to identify which terrorists are more likely to talk to investigators.

The Seven-Stage Hate Model can predict acts of violence by terrorist and hate groups as well as workplace and school violence. It has been successfully used to predict and prevent violent terrorist acts in the United States.