James Igoe WalshNov 30, 2022
First substantive Mastodon post! I hope I’m doing this properly 🤫 Beth Whitaker, Justin Conrad, and I have released the Rebel Human Rights Violations (RHRV) dataset, which documents allegations of human rights violations by rebel groups around the world in each year from 1990 to 2020. You can find a pre-print of the paper, forthcoming in @JPR_journal, and the data on Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KT3PZS
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The Rebel Human Rights Violations Dataset

This is the repository for the Rebel Human Rights Dataset, which measures violations of nine international human rights by rebel groups engaged in ...

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We extend the approach used to measure human rights abuses by governments– such as the Political Terror Scale and the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project– to rebel groups The RHRV dataset codes human rights reports from @DOS & Amnesty to identify allegations of nine human rights violations: killings, torture, detention, property crimes, forced recruitment, sexual violence, forced displacement, and restrictions on movement.
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Similar to the Sexual Violence in Armed Confict dataset, the RHRV dataset includes a larger number of human rights violations and only those committed by rebel groups.
http://www.sexualviolencedata.org
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

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are less common that one might think:
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We also find that killings are the most common allegation of rebel human rights violations
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And that overall rebel violations have not declined noticeably over the past 30 years
Nov 30, 2022 at 3:20pmWeb
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We hope other researchers will build on this data collection effort to produce new findings about the causes of human rights abuses. 🙏 to the many graduate and undergraduate students who collected the data (and hopefully learned something about human rights), as well as the Minerva Research Initiative, Director of National Intelligence, Army Research Office, UNC Charlotte, & the Center for International Trade & Security at the University of Georgia for providing support that made this possible
Show threadEvert Te WinkelNov 30, 2022
@jamesigoewalsh absolutely great stuff. I canmot imagine never using this dataset.
Show threadJames Igoe WalshNov 30, 2022
@egtewinkel That's great--I hope you find it useful!