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
Project Leader
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor of Peace and Conflict Research
Project Period
2007 - ongoing
Contact Persons
Peter Wallensteen, Isak Svensson
Project Description
The project aims to explore the field of international mediation in internal armed conflicts by:
• Conducting comparative studies on the questions of selection, strategies and outcome of international mediation;
• Discuss the experiences and ‘lessons learned’ of individual mediators;
• Gather the experiences from “academic mediation”
Publications
•Lindgren, Mathilda, Peter Wallensteen, and Helena Grusell. Meeting the New Challenges to International Mediation, UCDP Paper 6, Uppsala University, (2010).
• Nilsson Desirée, Crafting a Secure Peace Evaluating Liberia’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2003. Uppsala, November 2009.
• Wallensteen Peter, Eriksson Mikael. Negotiating Peace Lessons from Three Comprehensive Peace Agreements. Uppsala, November 2009.
• Kostic Roland. Reconciling the Past and the Present Evaluating the Dayton Peace Agreement 1995 Uppsala, November 2009.
• Brosché, Johan. Sharing Power — Enabling Peace? Evaluating Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement 2005. Uppsala, November 2009.
• Wallensteen, Peter. 2009. ”The Evolving Field of International Mediation.” Development Dialogue, 53:27-31.
• Wallensteen, Peter: Understanding Conflict Resolution 2007 (2nd edition), ch 10.3
• Svensson, Isak: “Mediation with Muscles or Minds?: Exploring Power and Trust Mediators in Civil Wars”, International Negotiation, (Vol 12, no 2, 2007)
• Svensson, Isak: “Bias, Bargaining, and Peace Brokers: How Rebels Commit to Peace”, Journal of Peace Research, 44(2), 2007
• Svensson, Isak: “Elusive Peacemakers: A Bargaining Perspective on Mediation in Internal Armed Conflicts”, Dissertation thesis, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 2006, Report no 75. ISBN 91-506-1908-X
• Brosché, Johan Darfur - Dimensions and Dilemmas of a Complex Situation, UCDP Paper No.2, Uppsala University 2008.
Other Project Activities
“The Go-Between. Jan Eliasson and the Styles of International Mediation” by Isak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen was launched in November 2010, at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington D.C., as well as at the Otago University in New Zeeland. Further information about the book launch.
The conference Meeting the New Challenges to International Mediation was held in Uppsala, June 14-16, 2010. The final report is available in hard copy and in pdf-format.
Main Financial Support
• Uppsala University
• The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
• UN Mediation Support Unit
• Vetenskapsrådet, The Swedish Research Council
• Folke Bernadotte Academy
Press Information
Sammanfattning, Rapporter till UN Mediation Support Unit (Summary, Reports to UN Mediation Support Unit, in Swedish).
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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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