Peace data: Concept, measurement, patterns, and research agenda

Paul F Diehl, Gary Goertz and Yahve Gallegos
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Paul F Diehl: University of Texas–Dallas, USA
Gary Goertz: University of Notre Dame, USA
Yahve Gallegos: University of Texas–Dallas, USA

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2021, vol. 38, issue 5, 605-624

Abstract: This data article reviews the revised “peace data,†describing the motivations behind them and offering a general description of the different peace scale levels—severe rivalry, lesser rivalry, negative peace, warm peace, and security community respectively. A brief overview of the evolution of peace and rivalry for the 1900–2015 period is presented. Peace in the international system has increased over time, with a decline in rivalries and an increase in security communities being the most notable findings. The article concludes with a discussion of how the peace data might be used to address new questions in international relations research or reconfigure existing ones.

Keywords: Negative peace; peace; peace scale; positive peace; rivalry; security community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894219870288

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