Magical Acts by Groups in Civil Conflicts (MAGICC) Dataset

The Magical Acts by Groups in Civil Conflicts (MAGICC) Dataset contains information on the magical practices of rebel organizations. The dataset contains measures of whether magical practices are featured throughout the organization, at both the rank-and-file and leadership levels, as well as the presence of rebel leaders who claim to have magical powers beyond that of the average member. The article introducing this dataset is published in the Journal of Peace Research and can be found here. I co-created this dataset with Nazli Avdan.

We also include a zip file that contains the replication data and code, as well as various supplementary materials. These supplemental materials include the appendix for the dataset release article, the codebook, and the qualitative narratives used to code the variables. These latter three are combined into a single document. All of this material can be found here.