Philippine Kidnappings

Post date: Aug 19, 2016 10:55:32 AM

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.

DATA FORMAT: UCINET, .csv

DATA: 2-model matrix 246x105 persons by terrorist events, undirected binary relations are participation in events

SOURCE/AVAILABILITY: Available from Manchester. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cCV3RJihmG3miPFECpV7/full

CITATION: 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.

KEYWORDS: terrorist, Philippines