Data projects

Strategies of Resistance
​Data Project (SRDP)

​​global data on violence & nonviolence

This project includes yearly data on violent and non-violent actions for all organizations making claims related to self-determination. It builds on the initial list of all organizations in self-determination disputes from 1960 – 2005 from Inside the Politics of Self-determination. Violent acts include fatal and non-fatal violence targeted at the state, in and out-group organizations, and in and out-group civilians. Nonviolent acts include protest, economic noncooperation, social noncooperation, political noncooperation, and nonviolent intervention.
.*update to 2020 coming in 2023* 

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SRDP related papers

​2019. The data release paper: Introducing the Strategies of Resistance Data Project with Marianne Dahl and Anne Frugé. 
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​2017. Strategies of Resistance: Diversification and Diffusion with Marianne Dahl and Anne Frugé. ​American Journal of Political Science.
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​​2016. Diversification and Diffusion. PRIO Policy Brief, 20. Oslo: Peace Research Institute Oslo

Original graphic from SRDP

Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence (FORGE)

organizational roots of rebellion

with Jessica Maves Braithwaite
 
This data collection centers on the origins of violent non-state actors around the world from 1946-2010. We trace the organizational and social origins of rebel groups. This includes the characteristics of groups at the founding stages related to social identification and political agenda, as well as pre-rebellion political organization and participation. 
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FORGE related papers

​2020. When Organizations Rebel: Introducing the Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence (FORGE) Dataset International Studies Quarterly

2024. Backgrounds With Benefits? Rebel Group Origins and Concessions During Civil Wars in Africa Journal of Conflict Resolution

graphic by Indrajit Das

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Leader Ascension & Rebellion

 with Katherine Sawyer
 
This project examines of ways in which rebel leaders come to power in contemporary rebellion. Examining all rebel groups active after 1989, based on the PRIO/Uppsala Conflict Data Project, we identify specific leaders and categorize their ascension type.  These include ascension as founders, by election, by inheritance (following death or imprisonment of incumbent), by splintering off existing group, though the merging of existing rebel groups, being installed by third party, and being selected by a cadre of rebel officers. 

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Leader Ascension related papers
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Conflict Negotiations and Rebel Leader Selection​ with Kanisha Bond and Katherine Sawyer Journal of Peace Research

2021. Rebel Legitimacy and Wartime Sexual Violence. Journal of Politics with Kanisha Bond and Katherine Sawyer