When the database has been fed with a sufficient number of reports of real events about a certain issue, this permits an “evidence-based” dialogue about the perpetrators and their intents and about the victims and their vulnerabilities. Taback and Coupland tested the model using global news reports about violence in general and about attacks on journalists.Taback, Nathan and Robin Coupland (2006). ”Security of Journalists: Making the Case for Modelling Armed Violence as a Means to Promote Human Security.” They went further and termed such an approach “the science of human security.”
