Cliveden visitors in 2017. As home of Nancy Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set of the 1920s and 30s—a group of political intellectuals. Later, during the early 1960s, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo Affair. During the 1970s, it was occupied by Stanford University, which used it as an overseas campus. Today the house is leased by the National Trust as a five-star hotel. Cliveden means "valley among cliffs" and refers to the dene (valley) which cuts through part of the estate, east of the house. Cliveden has been spelled differently over
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence of its work, the CSTPV maintains databases, manifestations, and consequences of terrorism and other forms of political violence. CSTPV has been able to expand its research and teaching work as the result of a donation from the Worldwide Support for Development (WSD), chaired by Japanese religious leader Haruhisa Handa. Hence it was also named as Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. The Centre was founded in 1994 by Paul Wilkinson and Bruce Hoffman and created the Rand-St. Andrews terrorism incident database which provides data for their studies. In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations