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- Eck, Kristine
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A Beginner’s Guide to Conflict Data : Finding and Using the Right Dataset
- 2005
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents a guide to identifying and using the right conflict dataset. It is composed of two parts: 1) a brief overview of factors researchers might consider when choosing a conflict dataset, and 2) a listing of approximately 60 of the most prominent conflict datasets. The first part of the paper includes a brief description of the historical evolution of conflict data. It then turns to various factors researchers might consider when using conflict data, focusing specifically on needs of the researcher, whether they be policy-related, qualitative research or quantitative research. For each of these categories, there is a discussion on conflict data that are relevant for those users, and substantive recommendations are provided for which dataset to choose. The second part of the paper is divided into two sections: armed conflict dataset and events datasets, both of which contain an alphabetical listing of prominent datasets. For each dataset, a description is provided, as is information on the temporal and spatial domain; the type of event in focus (usually armed conflict or war); how this event is defined; the violence threshold employed for case inclusion; a brief list of data coded; the principal researcher; and how to access the information.
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- Lindgren, Mathilda, et al.
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Meeting the New Challenges to International Mediation : Report from an international symposium at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, June 14-16, 2010
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The discussions of the Uppsala symposium on Mediation in June 2010 highlighted a number of issues novel either to researchers or to practitioners. The meeting was organized around eight such themes. In short, the discussions showed that there are selections effects which makes the evaluation of success in mediation very difficult (more difficult conflicts get more mediation attempts), and that a biased mediator or mediation mandating actor is not always negative. If a conflict is about the control of government or of a particular territory, this affects the mediation approach as well as the durability of the outcome and the following peacebuilding efforts. Mediation styles vary and may sometimes create, for instance, cultural problems for a mediator. Mandates can be constraining for the mediator, but also solve some problems in mediation. Building fruitful relations between researchers, practitioners and policy makers can generate more resources for mediation. The proliferation of mediation efforts in the same conflict raises new issues of coordination and involves the dangers of negative competition. External shocks are seldom considered in the literature, but may provide breakthroughs for mediations as well as ending such efforts. Outcomes of mediation are not only equal to reaching an agreement. The long-term peacebuilding effects of mediation provides for new challenges to mediation research and practice where the researchers may appear not only to be constructive collaborators for practitioners, but also turn into ‘myth busters’. This report puts some meat to these one-liners.
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- Möller, Frida
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Identifying Conflict Prevention Measures : Comparing Two Approaches
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study of conflict prevention has only recently become moresystematic and moved away from an exclusive reliance on casestudies. With the efforts of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program(UCDP) and the Folke Bernadotte Academy, a dataset of thirdparty measures taken in armed conflicts at low intensity hasbeen created. The dataset, ‘Managing Intrastate Low-level Conflicts’(MILC) covers all existing low-level armed conflicts for theperiod of 1993-2004.There is a lingering discussion regarding whether systematicallycollected data based on news media sources, other currentreports and general insight actually captures the events thatdiplomats, mediators and other actors would regard as significant.Some would even question if systematic data like the MILCdataset can generate an accurate and unbiased account of thephenomena it tries to quantify. This study is responding to theseconcerns by comparing news based information with informationbased on memoirs and historical accounts.Analyzing the case of Burundi using both approaches, the purposeof this study is to see if different approaches will result ina similar or different understanding of third party activities ina particular crisis. Comparing the MILC dataset with data collectedin other ways and using other types of material will helpus understand the strengths and limitations of a systematic approachbased on news reports. This in turn will provide a betterfoundation for interpreting and analysing this systematic data.
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- Strandow, Daniel, et al.
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The UCDP and AidData codebook on georeferencing aid : Version 1.1
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This codebook details how aid events that are available from AidData and other donor sources can be assigned latitude and longitude coordinates, i.e. be geo-referenced, under the UCDP/AidData coding rules. The rules are derived from the UCDP Geo-referenced Event Dataset (GED) Codebook version 1.0 (Sundberg et al., 2010) which covers the geo-referencing of violent events. The system has been adapted and complemented by additional rules to enable the coding of aid projects rather than battles. The UCDP GED is used as a starting point as it permits us to identify and record a hierarchy of locations differentiated by various precision scores.Sources vary in the precision that locations are reported; sometimes the exact location is named and in other instances the general area is reported. Following UCDP, the system of geo-referencing used by UCDP/AidData can therefore cope with coordinates at four main levels, ranging from point locations, through two administrative divisions, to the country level. Eight precision categories are connected to the coordinates in order for researchers to select subsets of the data set that contain different levels of precision. The main objective is to record all locations to which aid dollars are committed or distributed. Locations that benefit indirectly are not coded, unless the geographic locations of the indirect areas are significant enough to be clearly spelled out in project documents.
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