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Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset
NILS PETTER GLEDITSCH
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
PETER WALLENSTEEN
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
MIKAEL ERIKSSON
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
MARGARETA SOLLENBERG
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
HÅVARD STRAND
Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of or part of 2001. Armed conflict remains a serious problem in the post-Cold War period. For three decades, the Correlates of War project has served as the main supplier of reliable data used in longitudinal studies of external and internal armed conflict. The COW datasets on war use the relatively high threshold of 1,000 battle-deaths. The Uppsala dataset on armed conflict has a lower threshold, 25 annual battle-deaths, but has so far been available for only the post-Cold War period. This dataset has now been backdated to the end of World War II. This article presents a report on armed conflict based on this backdate as well as another annual update. It presents the procedures for the backdating, as well as trends over time and breakdowns for the type of conflict. It assesses the criteria for measuring armed conflict and discusses some directions for future data collection in this area.
Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 39, No. 5,
615-637 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0022343302039005007
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T. ADDISON and S. M. MURSHED
Debt Relief and Civil War
Journal of Peace Research,
March 1, 2003;
40(2):
159 - 176.
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C. CRAFT and J. P. SMALDONE
The Arms Trade and the Incidence of Political Violence in Sub-saharan Africa, 1967-97
Journal of Peace Research,
November 1, 2002;
39(6):
693 - 710.
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A. MACK
Civil War: Academic Research and the Policy Community
Journal of Peace Research,
September 1, 2002;
39(5):
515 - 525.
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