Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) Dataset

The WAAR Project

The Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) Project is a multi-methods research project. The WAAR Project dataset measures reports of women’s participation in more than 370 rebel organizations between 1946-2015.

The dataset features 22 measures of women’s participation in rebel organizations, including presence and prevalence measures across non-combat, combat, and leadership roles and disaggregated measures of participation types.

The WAAR Project Handbook offers contextual, qualitative assessments of women’s involvement in each organization. The (open access) article introducing the data, published in The Journal of Peace Research, is available here.

The dataset and handbook are also available at waarproject.com