Introducing the Global Terrorism Database

By Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan. 2007

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Quest for significance and violent extremism : the case of domestic radicalization (2017, background): “In response, many researchers rely on open-source documents such as newspaper accounts and court records to reconstruct the life histories of terrorist perpetrators (Freilich, Chermak, Belli, Gruenewald, & Parkin, 2014; Gill et al., 2014; LaFree & Dugan, 2007).”
On the origin of domestic and international terrorism (2011, background): “We thus corroborate the findings by Lai (2007) and Freytag et al.”
Economic growth and terrorism: domestic, international, and suicide (2015, background): “There are some prob- lems with the database; for example, the data for 1993 are missing (La Free and Dugan, 2007).”
Causality between terrorism and economic growth (2013, methodology): “Raw data for terrorist activity is drawn from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) introduced by LaFree & Dugan (2007).5 The GTD provides data on domestic and transnational terrorism.6 We are therefore able to consider all terrorist activity – terrorism by domestic groups and individuals against…”
The Origins of Terrorism - Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism (2011, methodology): “The data for our dependent variable is drawn from the GTD, the Global Terrorism Database (LaFree and Dugan, 2007).”