The CRTPV is a consortium of academics operating under the auspices of the Network of Activist Scholars of Politics and International Relations (NASPIR) and the Public Interest Research Network (PIRN) on the issues of the 'war on terror'.  The project commenced on 30 March 2004. The project maintains an email list.  You can sign up for it here . 

The project was originally established by David Miller and Doug Stokes, and is now coordinated by David Miller , Jonny Burnett and Ruth Blakeley .  It also works closely with the British International Studies Association’s Working Group for Critical Terrorism Studies, convened by Richard Jackson. 

Terrorology

A key focus of the group is to uncover the embedded nature of most conventional scholarship on terrorism.  As CAMPACC states, “Academic terrorism ‘experts’ - or terrorologists - are deeply embedded in the elite power structure. They conveniently blur distinctions between political dissent, resistance to oppressive regimes, and violent threats to populations. These experts advise governments on counter-terrorism, thus sanitising Western state terror as legitimate techniques for self-defence.”  (http://www.campacc.org.uk/embedded.htm) The CRTPV researches the origins of this expertise, the influence and credibility that it has, and the consequences of the work.  This includes the preclusion of state terrorism by Northern democratic states in the global South. 

Reports and publications

US Terrorocracy Promotion and the (re-) Production of Capitalism in Colombia (draft) - Doug Stokes

United States and NATO inspired 'psychological warfare operations' against the 'Kurdish communist threat' in Turkey - Desmond Fernandes and Iskender Ozden (external link)

Rise of the Terrorist Professors (Kevin Toolis. New Statesman. London: Jun 14, 2004.Vol. 17, Iss. 811; pg. 26, 2 pgs).

The Real Terror Network (Edward S. Herman, excerpted from the book, published in 1982 by South End Press).

  International Terrorism: Image and Reality (Noam Chomsky, In Alexander George (ed.), Western State Terrorism, Routledge, December, 1991).

  Instruments of Statecraft: US Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism, 1940-1990 (excellent project that provides a good overview of US counter-terrorism activities).  

Why the End of the Cold War Doesn't Matter: The US War of Terror in Colombia (Doug Stokes, Review of International Studies, vol.29, pp.569-585, 2003)

Contesting Political Violence: 'Terrorism', Propaganda and the Media (David Miller, Linenhall Review, 9 (1) Spring:37-39).  

The Running Dogs Of Terrorology (By Nabeel Abraham, Lies Of Our Times, May 1993, pp. 6 -- 8)

Why Torture?  (Ruth Blakeley, University of Kent, Canterbury, 2006)

Blood for Oil? Global Capital, Counter-insurgency and the Dual Logic of American Energy Security  (Doug Stokes, forthcoming, Review of International Studies, 2007)

The Heart of Empire? Theorising US Empire in an Era of Transnational Capitalism  (Doug Stokes, Third World Quarterly, vol.26, no.2, pp.217-236, 2005)

Activities

To date, the CRTPV has coordinated conference panels for the “Error in Terrorism” conference, organised by the Journal for Crime, Conflict and the Media in November 2004, and for the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conferences in December 2005 and 2006 in collaboration with NASPIR.

The CRTPV has also participated in seminars in collaboration with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC).  The first of these, “Embedded Expertise in the War on Terror”, was held in April 2005, and the second, “Torture and Security Agencies in the War on Terror”, in April 2006, in collaboration with the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute at London Metropolitan University, the Muslim Parliament, Garden Court Chambers, Redress, and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.