The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) has recorded ongoing violent conflicts since the 1970s. The data provided is one of the most accurate and well-used data-sources on global armed conflicts and its definition of armed conflict is becoming a standard in how conflicts are systematically defined and studied.
About UCDP
UCDP Paper No. 1
Eck, Kristine. A beginner's guide to conflict data. Finding the right dataset. (2005) pdf
UCDP Paper No. 2
Brosché, Johan. Darfur - Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Situation (2008) pdf
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UCDP Paper No. 3
Sundberg, Ralph. Revisiting One-sided Violence - A Global and Regional Analysis (2009) pdf
UCDP Paper No. 4
Strandow, Daniel, Michael Findley, Daniel Nielson, and Josh Powell. The UCDP and AidData codebook on georeferencing aid. Version 1.1 (2011) pdf
UCDP Paper No. 5
Möller, Frida. Identifying Conflict Prevention Measures: Comparing Two Approaches (2010) pdf
UCDP Paper No. 6
Lindgren, Mathilda, Peter Wallensteen, and Helena Grusell. Meeting the New Challenges to International Mediation (2010) pdf
UCDP Paper No. 7
Johansson, Emma, Joakim Kreutz, Peter Wallensteen, Christian Altpeter, Sara Lindberg, Mathilda Lindgren, Ausra Padskocimaite. A New Start for EU Peacemaking? Past Record and Future Potential (2010) pdf
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Latest News
New UCDP GED YouTube-video!
A short video of organized violence in 1989-2010, over time and space. A derivative of the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (out now!)
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Major UCDP data release
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.
Also on 8 December, 2011, the UCDP released new data on external support in internal armed conflicts for the time period 1975-2009.
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The Arab Spring in the UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
The events of the Arab Spring will shortly be added in the UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia. Click on the links below for a background note on the Arab Spring and a timeline including events until late December 2011.
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