This page hosts open source data referred to during blog discussions and other data that might be useful for researchers.
All of it is free to use.
Foreign Fighters:
Foreign fighters have been the thrust of my research over the past three years. Below are some of the data I have used that might prove to be useful to others. The end result thus far has been three articles, several appendices and a coded data set for the Sinjar Records; released in November 2007.
Articles:
1) “Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan: What Foreign Fighter Data Reveals About the Future of Terrorism?”, Small Wars Journal, 2008.
2) “Foreign Fighters: How are they being recruited?”, Small Wars Journal, 2008.
3) “Countering Terrorism from the Second Foreign Fighter Glut”, Small Wars Journal, 2009.
Appendices:
The above articles are supported by a database and quantitative analysis. Explanation of the data sources and further discussion of the foreign fighter records can be found here.
A) Appendix A: Data & Discussion
B) Appendix B: Discussion of Countries
D) Appendix D: Regression and Other Analyses
Databases:
1) Sinjar Records-2007
The Sinjar Records were released in November 2007 by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. To produce the above analysis, I constructed an excel database which coded the records into a usable format allowing for quantitative and qualitative analysis. For additional information on this database, see Appendix A above.
Foreign Fighter Database in .xls
2) I also strongly recommend David Malet’s Foreign Fighter Project which houses additional data and resources related to foreign fighters including some exceptional analysis of historical foreign fighter movements.
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