InfoGuides: Terrorism: Find Data

Open (Freely Available) Terrorism Datasets

RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents
Over 40,000 events from 1968-2009. Free for research and analysis. If using the data in your research, you must attribute to RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents.
Global Terrorism Database
Open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970-2014.
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research
Center for Systemic Peace datasets covering political violence, displaced populations, state failure, terrorist bombings, and more. Copyright applies to data if used, reproduced, or redistributed.
Political Instability Task Force: Worldwide Atrocities Dataset
"Global dataset that describes, in quantitative terms, the deliberate killing of non-combatant civilians in the context of a wider political conflict." Coverage 1995-2012, 2013-2016
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
Data on political violence and protests in the developing world. Information includes location, types of events, actors, fatalities, and territorial control.

Correlates of War
Quantitative data project for topics in International Relations including militarized disputes, war, and territorial changes.
European Values Study
Conducted every 9 years this survey provides data on how Europeans feel about religion, politics, society, work, and family.
Minorities at Risk
MAR project provides data on politically active communal groups of at least 500,000 people. Monitors status and conflict.
Peace Research Institute of Oslo Data on Armed Conflict
Datasets relating to armed conflict, including religious cleavages and civil war; ACLED; Battle Deaths, and Onset and Duration of Intrastate Conflict.
World Values Survey
A worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world.
SIPRI Databases
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute maintains four databases on arms transfers, military expenditures, peace operations, and the arms industry.

ITERATE
The International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events dataset files are available at Fenwick Library in the Data Services Lab.

Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive (CNTS)
Offers a listing of international and national country-data facts. Contains statistical information on a range of countries from 1815 to the present. Categories include demographic, social, political, and economic topics.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
One of the world’s oldest and largest social and behavioral science data archives, ICPSR contains many studies that are of use for research and instruction. For more, see the ICPSR Infoguide or contact Data & Digital Scholarship Services.

Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center
The Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center (TPDRC), organizes, streamlines and distributes data collected by government agencies, researchers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on study and response to terrorism for descriptive and scientific analysis by academics and researchers.

Statista
Integrates more than 80,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 22,500 international sources. Includes statistics and studies gathered from market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, government sources and international organizations. Create graphs, reports and infographics. Data is easily exportable for analysis. Statista reports now allow you to create your own interactive industry comparisons with Tableau Workbook. Find the free tool at the Tableau website.