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Author Loertscher, Seth, author

Title Held hostage : analyses of kidnapping across time and among jihadist organizations / Seth Loertscher and Daniel Milton
Published [West Point, NY] : Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (VII, 53 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- Data and methods. -- Section 1: Kidnapping in historical perspective (1970-2013). -- Section 2: The Kidnapping of Westerners by non-state actors (2001-2015). -- When, where and by whom are Westerners kidnapped? -- Does victim nationality matter? -- Does victim occupation matter? -- Which jihadist groups are most active? -- Who holds captives the longest? -- Who executes and who releases? -- Findings in contest. -- Policy implications? -- Appendix A: the inclusion of pirates
Summary The purpose of this report is to provide policymakers, practitioners, and academics with data and analysis regarding kidnapping events perpetrated by jihadist groups against Westerners in non-Western countries. It will do so by first examining all non-state actor kidnappings from both a macro- and micro-level to place the phenomenon in context. This general approach then becomes the springboard from which to compare and contrast trends in jihadist kidnappings with those of other non-state actors. Following a brief introduction that outlines the scope, data, and methods used in the study, the first section's macro-level analysis uses data from the Global Terrorism Database (GDT) maintained by the University of Maryland's START Consortium (7,048 incidents between 1970 and 2013). The second section's micro-level analysis of kidnapping events involving Western hostages since 2001 utilizes an original Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) dataset consisting of 1,485 observations that incorporated data from individual academics, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), non-profit and for-profit research think tanks, and private sector insurance companies
Notes "December 2015."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (CTC, viewed January 11, 2016)
Subject Kidnapping -- Statistics
Jihad.
Jihad.
Kidnapping.
Genre/Form Statistics.
Form Electronic book
Author Milton, Daniel, author
Combating Terrorism Center (U.S.), publisher.