Scholars have spent decades investigating various sources of rebellion, from societal and institutional explanations to individual motivations to take up arms against one’s government. One element of the civil war process that has gone largely unstudied from a cross-national perspective is the role pre-existing organizations in society play in the formation of rebel groups, principally due to a lack of comparable data on the origins of these armed actors across conflicts. In an effort to fill this gap, we present the Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence (FORGE) dataset, which offers information on the “parent” organizations and the founding processes that gave rise to rebel groups active between 1946 and 2011 in intrastate conflicts included in the Uppsala Conflict Data Program’s Armed Conflict Database. The new information on rebel foundations introduced in this research note should help scholars to reconsider and newly explore a variety of conditions before, during, and after civil wars including rebel-civilian interactions, structures of rebel organizations, bargaining processes with the government, participation in post-war governance, and more.

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当组织叛逆时：介绍叛军团体兴起（FORGE）数据集的基础

学者们花费了数十年的时间研究各种叛乱的来源，从社会和制度上的解释到个人动手对抗政府的动机。从跨国角度来看，内战过程中的一个要素基本上未被研究，这是社会中既有组织在反叛团体形成中所扮演的角色，主要是由于缺乏有关这些武装分子起源的可比数据跨越冲突。为了填补这一空白，我们提出了叛军基础基金会（FORGE）数据集，该数据库提供了有关“上级”组织的信息以及在1946年至2011年期间活跃于叛乱组织的州内冲突中的起义过程。乌普萨拉冲突数据计划的武装冲突数据库。