AGENDA

Roundtable on Social and Behavioral Sciences and Terrorism

"Screening for Terrorists"

National Research Council

Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
May 13, 2003

NAS Building, Room 250

2101 Constitution Ave, Washington DC 20418

Morning Session

9:00 am. Welcome and Greeting (Coffee and Pastries available)

Michael Feuer, Executive Director, Division on Behavioral and

Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

Philip Heymann, Professor of Law and Government, Harvard University,

Co-chair, Roundtable

Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,

Department of Justice, Co-chair, Roundtable

9:15 Presentations
Characteristics of Suicide Bombers

Ariel Merari, Professor of Psychology, Tel Aviv University,

Jerusalem (will participate by video-conference)

Marc Sageman, Forensic Psychiatrist (will briefly discuss

preliminary data from biographies of over 100 Al Qaida Terrorists)

Airport Security — Screening the General Population

Rafi Ron, Consultant - Former Director of Security at Ben Gurion
International Airport and the Israel Airport Authority

Recommendations from the Markle Foundation Task Force

Philip Zelikow, Executive Director, National Commission on

Terrorist Attacks on the United States

10:45 BREAK
11:00 Discussion - Roundtable

11:30 Presentations
Can We Rely on Technology and Data mining to Solve Our Security
Concerns: The Role of Variation and Measurement Error

Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University

Cross-cultural judgments of deception.

Charles Bond, Texas Christian University

Afternoon Session

12:30-1:15 WORKING LUNCH

Discussion — Roundtable

1:15 Presentations
Legal Issues in the Use of Profiles

Debra Livingston, Columbia University School of Law

Psychological errors and logical pitfalls in racial profiling

Jack Glaser, University of California, Berkeley

2:00 Discussion — Roundtable

2:30 Presentations
ProfilinR Terrorists: Lessons from Research

Andrew Silke, Home Office, United Kingdom

How Does One Become a Terrorist and What Marks the Process?
Applications of a Theory of Deviant Legitimation.

Jonathan Drummond, Major, USAF, Princeton University

3:15 Discussion ~ Roundtable

4:00 Adjourn