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 Conflict Termination dataset v.2010-1, 1946 - 2009
Content: This dataset provide information on specific start- and end- dates for conflict activity and means of termination for each conflict episode. The data is available as a conflict-level dataset which correspond with the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset v4 – 2010, and a dyad-level dataset which correspond with the UCDP Dyadic Dataset v1 – 2010.
Citation for the data: Kreutz, Joakim. 2010. “How and When Armed Conflicts End: Introducing the UCDP Conflict Termination Dataset," Journal of Peace Research 47(2): 243-250.
Other recent publications of the data: “Human Security Brief 2007” (Human Security Research Group, Simon Fraser University).
Latest update: 29 November 2010
Older versions
UCDP Conflict Termination dataset v.2.0, 1946 - 2006
Latest update: 1 May 2008
UCDP Conflict Termination dataset 1989 – 2003
UCDP Conflict Termination dataset v.1.0, 1946 - 2005
Latest update: 1 December 2006
Replication Data
Kreutz, Joakim. 2010. How and When Armed Conflicts End: Introducing the UCDP Conflict Termination Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 47(2): 243-250
UCDP Conflict Termination dataset version 1.0
Codebook UCDP Conflict Termination Dataset v 1.0
How and When Armed Conflicts End_appendix
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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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