WiRe+ Dataset, v1

The WiRe+ dataset includes novel measures of youth and LGBTQ+ participation in maximalist nonviolent campaigns from 1990-2020. This project extends the Women in Resistance (WiRe) Dataset, which identifies women’s frontline participation in roles in maximalist campaigns from 1945-2014, by adding comparable indicators for youth and LGBTQ+ participation in nonviolent campaigns only. Observational data were collected from all 209 maximalist nonviolent campaigns in the world, from 1990 to 2020. Maximalist campaigns are defined following the NAVCO data coding conventions, which includes all mass movements aimed at overthrowing the central government of a country, seceding, or establishing a newly independent state. During the study period, 192 of these campaigns pursued the overthrow of the government and 16 campaigns sought secession or self-determination using primarily unarmed resistance. For information on the underlying NAVCO data and indicators, see https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/navco. For information on the WiRe dataset, see https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/BYFJ3Z.