Global Suicide Attacks

Post date: Aug 19, 2016 12:19:29 PM

DESCRIPTION: Data is on militant organizations between 1985 and 2006. Each node signifies a militant organization or other type of entity that conducts suicide attacks.

DATA FORMAT: UCINET, .csv

DATA: 1-mode matrix for each year, organization by organization. Undirected, binary ties represent a known physical relationship between agents from different but “connected” organizations.

1985 10 x 10

1986 4 x 4

1990 4 x 4

1993 4 x 4

1994 4 x 4

1995 9 x 9

1996 6 x6

1997 4 x 4

1998 10 x 10

1999 7 x 7

2000 10 x 10

2001 15 x 15

2002 11 x 11

2003 21 x 21

2004 25 x 25

2005 27 x 27

2006 31 x 31

SOURCE: Available from Manchester. Reconstructed from Benjamin Acosta & Steven J. Childs (2013) ‘Illuminating the Global Suicide-Attack Network’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 36:1, 49-76

CITATION: Benjamin Acosta & Steven J. Childs (2013) ‘Illuminating the Global Suicide-Attack Network’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 36:1, 49-76

KEYWORDS: Terrorist, militant, political