rebel_leader: Rebel Organization Leaders (ROLE) Database

rebel_leaderR Documentation

Rebel Organization Leaders (ROLE) Database

Description

Dataset that provides a wide range of biographical information on all top rebel, insurgent, and terrorist leaders who were active in civil wars between 1980 and 2011. The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(rebel_leader)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 425 rows and 20 variables.

Details

  • leadercode. Leader code.

  • name. Full name.

  • state. The conflict country against which the leader fought.

  • conflict. Name of the conflict in which the leader fought.

  • group. Name of group.

  • gender. Gender of leader.

  • birth_year. Year of birth.

  • dead. Is leader dead? Coded as of December 31, 2018.

  • birth_place. Place of birth.

  • education. Highest level of completed education.

  • study_area. Area of study for highest degree achieved.

  • entry_method. How did the individual come to lead the organization?

  • western. Dummy variable where 1 means the leader obtained a degree (bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, or equivalent) from a university in the US, UK, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, or Switzerland and 0 otherwise.

  • married. Dummy variable where 1 means the leader was married at some point and 0 otherwise.

  • children. Dummy variable where 1 means the leader had children and 0 otherwise.

  • religion. The religion with which the leader self-identified.

  • elite_family. Did the leader come from an elite family with political power or connections?

  • occupation. The leader’s primary occupation prior to his/her becoming rebel organization leader.

  • train_abroad. Dummy variable where 1 means the leader received training abroad from a foreign military or foreign rebel group before becoming leader and 0 otherwise.

  • death_cause. Cause of death.

Source

Acosta, B., Huang, R., & Silverman, D. (2023). Introducing ROLE: A database of rebel leader attributes in armed conflict. Journal of Peace Research, 60(2), 352–361. https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221077920


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