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Award-winning Data

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the winner of the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award for 2011. It is the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) which rewards a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

– UCDP was an “enthusiastic and unanimous choice of the Committee” says its chairperson Mark Tessler, University of Michigan, when conveying the news to Professor Peter Wallensteen, Director of the UCDP.

Data from the Department

A wide range of data is collected by researchers at the department. A selection of the publically available data, as well as the UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia (UCDP database), can be accesed through the links below. More data will be added shortly.

UCDP

UCDP Datasets

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) offers a number of datasets on organised violence and peacemaking, most of which are updated on an annual basis. A complete list of datasets are available in the UCDP data section, which also holds the datasets' individual pages where the datasets, codebooks and version histories can be downloaded.

In the UCDP data section, you can also create your own datasets by using the tools "Dynamic Datasets" and "Customized Reports".

For datasets used by UCDP authors of articles appearing in academic publications, see Replication Datasets in the UCDP's data section.

UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia

The UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia (UCDP database) is an online, free of charge, database containing detailed descriptive information on armed conflicts, peace agreements, and several other aspects of organised violence. Coverage is global with information from 1946 and onwards.

Other datasets

More data will be added shortly.

Replication data

Community and Consent

Repclication data for the article "Community and Consent: Unarmed Insurrections in Non-democracies" by Isak Svensson and Mathilda Lindgren. The article was publsihed in the European Journal of International Relations in 2011.

UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset

On 8 December, 2011, the UCDP released its latest addition to its vast number of datasets; the UCDP GED version 1.0-2011. The UCDP GED is an event-based and georeferenced dataset on organized violence, detailing all of the UCDP’s categories of violence (state-based conflict, non-state conflict and one-sided violence) in Africa between 1989 and 2010 at the level of the individual event of violence.

For more information and for downloading the dataset, please visit the UCDP GED webpage.