There exists the need to educate policy-makers, and the public in general, on the nature and intensity of the terrorism threat in the twenty-first century. The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies has an intellectual obligation, as well as a moral and practical responsibility, to participate in the international effort to arrest the virus of terrorism. The purpose of the International Center for Terrorism Studies (ICTS) is four-fold:1. To monitor current and future threats of terrorism;2. To develop response strategies on governmental and non-governmental levels;3. To effect continual communication with policy-makers, academic institutions, business, media, and civic organizations.4. To sponsor research programs on critical issues, particularly those relating enabling technologies with policy, and share findings nationally and internationally.Duties include: monitoring developments and conducting research on terrorism and counterterrorism, peace processes, regional insurgencies and ethnic conflicts, terrorism and law, developing and maintaining a database on terrorism and regional developments; compiling bibliographies and chronologies, and summarizing research materials; collecting and assembling data; copy editing and proofreading