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GLOBAL TERRORISM DATABASE - GTD (3) answer(s).
 
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Assessing the Abu Sayyaf group's strategic and learning capacit / Gerdes, Luke M; Ringler, Kristine; Autin, Barbara   Journal Article
Gerdes, Luke M Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract It remains unclear whether the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is a well-structured terror organization that poses a strategic threat, or a loosely organized collection of bandits that poses limited risk. Efforts to assess the nature of the organization are complicated by flaws in existing datasets on Violent Non-State Actors (VNSAs). ASG's role in kidnappings serves as a test-case to estimate incongruities among four major datasets on VNSAs. Original data collected at the agent level provides an additional point of comparison and also serves to test the efficacy of ASG's knowledge-dissemination structures, which are key in determining VNSAs' strategic capacities.
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ID:   128985


Effect of competition on terrorist group operations / Nemeth, Stephen   Journal Article
Nemeth, Stephen Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract Scholars have long accepted the contention that competition among terrorist organizations raises the level of violence used by the competitors. This article discusses this claim and advances another-that competition among terrorist organizations creates incentives to use less violence. Using insights from the organizational ecology literature-namely that competition occurs within "species"-I create a variable that assesses intraspecies competition. I test both claims using a data set of domestic terrorism created from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) for the years 1970 to 1997. I find support for the hypothesis that competition leads to more terrorism, validating the claims of outbidding theorists. Furthermore, ideologies have differential effects on whether outbidding occurs, with nationalist and religious terrorist groups responding to competition with more terrorism and left-wing organizations responding with less.
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ID:   124537


Far right lone wolf homicides in the United States / Gruenewald, Jeff; Chermak, Steven; Freilich, Joshua D   Journal Article
Freilich, Joshua D Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract Little is known about the nature of far-right lone wolf terrorism and how this form of violence varies across different types of suspects. Relying on data from the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), we comparatively examine characteristics of far-right homicides in the United States perpetrated by suspects with no evident affiliations with domestic terrorist organizations. Surprisingly, we found that this form of lone wolf terrorism has generally not increased during the past decade. We also found important differences, such as in suspects' mental health, in statuses of homicide offenders who operate alone compared to those who associate or act with others.
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