Harvard’s educational nature and its efforts to provide a diverse international student body and faculty help provide a positive reputation overseas, Reppert says.
“Harvard is vulnerable, though less so…because it is known around the world [largely because] people around the world have participated in it,” he says.
Taylor says that Harvard’s international character would likely discourage any international attacks, because so many nationalities are represented on campus that an attack would probably injure foreign citizens.
However, the experts agree that it is impossible to thoroughly assess the threat level of any particular target—there are simply too many factors and too many terrorists with different agendas and proclivities,they say.
“There’s really no way to come up with a threat level. All the wisdom in the world can’t do it,” Taylor says.
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