Abu Sayyaf kidnappings (2014)

Bipartite network of members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines, and the kidnapping events they were involved in.[^icon] [^icon]: Description obtained from the [ICON](https://icon.colorado.edu) project.

npx keepset fetch netzschleuder-kidnappings

Nodes: 351
Edges: 402
Size: 7.7 KiB

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Overview

Id	`netzschleuder-kidnappings`
Namespace	`netzschleuder`
Aliases	`kidnappings`
Category	`graph/v1`
Kind	graph
Domain	Social network
Licence	not recorded by the source
Catalogue	`keepset` 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#	URL	Status	Retrieved	Read by recipe	Pinned snapshot	SHA-256
0	https://sites.google.com/site/ucinetsoftware/datasets/covert-networks/philippinekidnappings	live	2026-04-20		20201011193305raw	`1e5b18ad56c4`
1	https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnappings	live	2026-04-20		20260420154532raw	`cf72970ec6d1`
2	https://networks.skewed.de/net/kidnappings/files/kidnappings.csv.zip	live	2026-04-20	yes	20261022023211raw	`8ea75712428c`

Citations

L. Gerdes, K. Ringler, and B. Autin, "Assessing the Abu Sayyaf Group's Strategic and Learning Capacities." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 37(3), 267-293 (2014) doi:10.1080/1057610x.2014.872021

Recipe

Source	#2
Archive	zip
Member	`edges.csv`
Parser format	`"edge-list"`
Parser encoding	`"utf-8"`
Parser delimiter	`"comma"`
Parser skipLines	`0`
Parser commentPrefixes	`["#"]`
Parser sourceColumn	`0`
Parser targetColumn	`1`

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

Rule	From	To	Direction
move	`meta`	`meta`	both
move	`nodes[].id`	`nodes[].id`	both
move	`edges[].source`	`edges[].source`	both
move	`edges[].target`	`edges[].target`	both

Expected counts

Edges	402
Nodes	351

Properties

Directed	yes
Download bytes	7.7 KiB
Heterogeneous	yes
Multigraph	no
Self loops	no
Weighted	no