Less than four years ago, jihadist violence was widely believed to be in a state of terminal decline. Osama bin Laden and his most senior lieutenants had been killed, and the peaceful uprisings of the Arab Spring seemed to usher in a new era of free domand democracy in which al Qaeda and its jihadist terrorism looked outdated., By the end of 2014, it is no longer al Qaeda or jihadism that look outdated but the predictions of its imminent demise. Far from nearing defeat, jihadist groups everywhere have regrouped and taken advantage of new conflicts and instability. The most spectacularnewcomer is ‘Islamic State’, a group that has declared a Caliphate,holds territory from the Syrian city of Aleppo to the outskirts of the Iraqicapital Baghdad, and has rivalled – if not replaced – al Qaeda as theleader of global jihadism., The aim of this project was to produce a global snapshot of thisphenomenon by recording all the reported deaths that were caused byjihadist groups and networks during the month of November 2014.