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
In order to better promote and inform the global community of scholars and practitioners on the products created and launched by the UCDP, a newsletter focused specifically on updates and forthcoming material has now been produced. The alert will continuously inform its recipients of completed updates of the UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia (UCDP database), launches of new datasets and the approximate dates of launches of forthcoming products.
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Previous UCDP Update Alerts
UCDP Update Alert no 1, 3 June, 2010
UCDP Update Alert no 2, 27 July, 2010
UCDP Update Alert no 3, 20 October, 2010
UCDP Update Alert no 4 , 21 December, 2010
UCDP Update Alert no 5, 8 March, 2011
UCDP Update Alert no 6, 17 May, 2011
UCDP Update Alert no 7, 10 August, 2011
UCDP Update Alert no 8, 3 November, 2011
UCDP Update Alert no 9, 8 December 2011
UCDP Update Alert no 10, 23 March 2012
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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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