covert_36: Philippine Kidnappings

covert_36R Documentation

Philippine Kidnappings

Description

Data refers to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), a violent non-state actor operating in the Southern Philippines. In particular, this data is related to the Salast movement that has been founded by Aburajak Janjalani, a native terrorist of the Southern Philippines in 1991. ASG is active in kidnapping and other kinds of terrorist attacks (Gerdes et al. 2014). The reconstructed 2-mode matrix combines terrorist kidnappers and the terrorist events they have attended. 2-model matrix 246x105 persons by terrorist events, undirected binary relations are participation in events

Usage

covert_36

Format

igraph object

Source

Available from Manchester (https://sites.google.com/site/ucinetsoftware/datasets/covert-networks). http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cCV3RJihmG3miPFECpV7/full

References

Gerdes, Luke M., Kristine Ringler, and Barbara Autin. "Assessing the Abu Sayyaf Group's Strategic and Learning Capacities." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 37, no. 3 (2014): 267-293.


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