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Global Terrorism Database II, 1998-2004

Principal Investigator(s): LaFree, Gary; Dugan, Laura

Summary: The Global Terrorism Database II (GTD2) project was undertaken to address the fact that there is little robust empirical analysis of terrorism. Due to this lack of available empirical data regarding terrorism, the researchers sought to code and verify a previously unavailable dataset composed of terrorist events recorded for the entire world from 1998 through 2004. The goal of the GTD2 was to create a comprehensive and sound data set on global terrorism that can be used to derive methodologicall... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22600.v1

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