Islamic State Group

Post date: Aug 19, 2016 11:27:10 AM

DESCRIPTION: The data describes relationships between members of the Islamic State supplied to the BBC by IS investigation team.

DATA FORMAT: UCINET, .csv

DATA: 1-mode matrices 56 x 56 persons by persons undirected binary ties.

The data includes three matrices with three types of relationships:

Links (relationship definition unknown)

Components & friends (former companion, close, friends, close coordination, most important companion, close relationship)

Kinship (brothers, brothers working together, young brother, brother, married to sister, son)

SOURCE/AVAILABILITY: Available from Manchester. Reconstructed from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29052475

KEYWORDS: Terrorist, Islamic State