War and Peace - Inter-state Conflicts, Associated Fatalities etc

February 19, 2018

Data on inter-state conflicts, international relations and other correlates of war including war-related deaths and injuries.

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Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) dataset

A whole variety of datasets on armed conflicts 1946-present

http://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/

Some of most relevant:

UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset version 17.2 A conflict-year dataset with information on armed conflict where at least one party is the government of a state in the time period 1946-2016.
- CSV: http://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ged/ged172-csv.zip
- CodeBook: http://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ucdpprio/ucdp-prio-acd-172.pdf

:::info Note: PRIO dataset https://www.prio.org/Data/Armed-Conflict/Battle-Deaths/ merged into Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) dataset :::

Correlates of War

Correlates of War - http://www.correlatesofwar.org/

COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations. Key principles of the project include a commitment to standard scientific principles of replication, data reliability, documentation, review, and the transparency of data collection procedures. More specifically, we are committed to the free public release of data sets to the research community, to release data in a timely manner after data collection is completed, to provide version numbers for data set and replication tracking, to provide appropriate dataset documentation, and to attempt to update, document, and distribute follow-on versions of datasets where possible.

Dataset on old datahub https://old.datahub.io/dataset/cow (from 2007!)

Data

http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/COW-war
- CSV http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/COW-war/intra-state-war-data-v4-1/at_download/file
Lots of code books!

License: Not OPEN

Data is under click-wrap with a bunch of restrictions that mean this is not open data (last checked 2018-02-19):

Data are not to be used for any commercial activity; users of COW data agree not to sell or use the data as part of any financial profit-making activity.
Users agree to cite each of the datasets they use in the manner described on each specific dataset web page.
Users agree not to distribute the dataset to any third party without written permission of the COW director and data host.
Users agree to ask permission for any dissemination, posting, or other use of the data that is not covered by the above restrictions.

Brecke Conflict Catalog

Conflict Catalog:(Violent Conflicts 1400 A.D. to the Present in Different Regions of the World) Authors: Peter Brecke Contents: 3708 conflicts, data on parties, fatalities, date and duration.

TODO: data package!