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
UN in Armed Conflicts
The UN has been active in the management and resolution of armed conflict particularly since the end of the Cold War. In this project the overall trends and foci of UN activities are analysed.
Contact: Peter Wallensteen
Reconciliation after Internal Conflict
This project focuses on reconciliation after internal conflict. Under which conditions do countries initiate reconciliation processes and when do they succeed?
Contact: Karen Brounéus
Conflict Termination
The Project aims at collecting and analysing different types of conflict termination. Conflict outcomes are coded into a new dataset with a focus on the role of negotiations and military force.
Contact: Joakim Kreutz
Political and Social Effects of Internal Armed Conflict
Civilian effects have been much discussed. They are difficult to assess in a systematic and comparable way. This project aims at working on the methodology and its application to situation of internal armed conflict.
Contact: Margareta Sollenberg
International Mediation in Internal Armed Conflict
Contact: Peter Wallensteen
Who, Where and Why: Understanding the Microfoundations of Civil War
Contact: Desirée Nilsson
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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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