Dr. Audrey Kurth Cronin, a scholar associated with the National War College and Oxford University, was in need of a simple, elegant website to feature her new book, How Terrorism Ends.

In addition to reviews, audio interviews and publications associated with her book, Dr. Cronin also wanted to display her research data, containing variables for 457 case studies representing different terrorist groups.

Building the site on Joomla’s open source platform, howterrorismends.com uses a number of commercial and free components to achieve the simple, professional design. Building on Joomla Bamboo’s “Grid” framework on the front end and the Simpla template on the back-end, several additional components help to add design interest, including Captify Content (to display ‘praise for How Terrorism Ends’), Breadcrumbs Plus, the Phoca Favicon, and the 1PixelOut audio player. To display the large data set in sortable columns, we employed the commercial components from ArtData as well as Joomla EasyTable v3.

To enhance search engine optimization, the site uses a commercial SEF optimizer from Artio that allows the URL re-directs to be specified within the administrative back-end.

You can find more about her book by visiting the site, www.howterrorismends.com:

“Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end–and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important to understand how it ends than how it begins. Only by understanding the common ways in which terrorist movements have died out or been eradicated in the past can we hope to figure out how to speed the decline of today’s terrorist groups, while avoiding unnecessary fears and costly overreactions. In How Terrorism Ends, Audrey Kurth Cronin examines how terrorist campaigns have met their demise over the past two centuries, and applies these enduring lessons to outline a new strategy against al-Qaeda.”