ii. Definition - relationships between individuals or organizations when no act is involved.

iii. Links - 2

First person or organization: one party to the relationship

Second person: the other party to the relationship

iv. Time Structure - initial and final dates, plus a date which defines as of when the agency became aware of the relationship

Nature of relationship: the quality of the connection between the two parties

vi. Notes - there are notes associated with relationship

a, b. Kinship relations are often quite important to understand why a pattern of violations has occurred. Other relations (friends, neighbors) can be represented in a very similar way.

c, d. Organizations are related to each other in a variety of complex ways. Hierarchical organizations indicate organizations that are part of larger organizations (e.g., a certain brigade pertains to a certain division; a trade union belongs to a federation of trade unions). Affiliations between organizations indicate simple connections (e.g., a trade union may be affiliated with a political party).

e. as described in previous sections.

f. BASIC entities (NAME, EVENT, INTERVENTION) which have controlled vocabulary attributes (e.g., occupation, location) store those attributes as RULE-INSTANCEs of the Description RULE.

viii. Typical Narrative - with a rendering of the narrative according to the appropriate rules.

Juan (P1) Pueblo, a farmer, married Juana Castaneda (P2) in 1962. Juan's father was Jorge Pueblo (P3).

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) -affiliated Norwegian Labor Confederation (LONOR) had been cooperating with the Salvadoran National Federation of Trade Unions (FENASTRAS) for 6 years (date of report: 1989). The 31.10.1989 bombing of the FENASTRAS Headquarters in San Salvador is widely seen as the trigger for the November, 1989, FMLN General Offensive. Several of the victims of the FENASTRAS bombing were members of the FENASTRAS member union SOICES. (adapted from Dueck et al., 1993a, pp. 41-4)