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#Greenbirds : measuring importance and influence in Syrian foreign fighter networks / Joseph A. Carter, Shiraz Maher, Peter R. Neumann.

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Location

Kanishka

Resource

e-Books

Alternate Title

Measuring importance and influence in Syrian foreign fighter networks

Authors

Publishers

  • London, U.K. : ISCR, [2014]

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Description

1 online resource (32 pages) : charts, photographs

Note

"The research for this paper was made possible by a grant from the Government of Canada’s Kanishka Project."--Acknowledgements.

Summary

"Over the past 12 months, a team of researchers from ICSR have created a database which contains the open source social media profiles of 190 Western and European foreign fighters. More than two thirds of these fighters are affiliated with Jabhat al-Nusrah or the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), the two groups that have, at one point or another, maintained formal relationships with al-Qaeda. The social media activity of these users reveals a unique and unfiltered window into the minds of a population about whom much has been written and speculated. This is the first in a series of papers that draws on information from the database. It examines the question of how foreign fighters in Syria receive information about the conflict and who inspires them."--Pages 6-7.

Subject

Online Access

Contents

Introduction -- Section 1: Methodology -- The database -- The dataset -- Section 2: Results -- The new disseminators -- The new spiritual authorities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

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