A Machine Learning Approach for Enhancing Defence Against Global Terrorism

The objective of this work is to predict the region and country of a terrorist attack using machine learning approaches. The work has been carried out upon the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which is an open database containing list of terrorist activities from 1970 to 2017. Six machine learning algorithms have been applied on a selected set of features from the dataset to achieve an accuracy of up to 82%. The results suggest that it is possible to train machine learning models in order to predict the region and country of terrorist attack if certain parameters are known. It is postulated that the work can be used for enhancing security against terrorist attacks in the world.