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
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