PRIO Conflict Site 1989–2008: A Geo-Referenced Dataset on Armed Conflict*

Johan Dittrich Hallberg

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2012, vol. 29, issue 2, 219-232

Abstract: This article presents PRIO Conflict Site, a geo-referenced dataset on armed conflict, which provides geographic information on the location, scope, and size of all conflicts in the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, 1989–2008. In contrast to earlier efforts to map the incidence of conflicts, this dataset is structured in a country-year format that accounts for the temporal dynamics of conflicts. The article reveals that unlike the well-known post-Cold War decline of conflict, there is no contemporaneous decline in the spatial extent of conflict. Furthermore, it is shown that governmental conflicts are more dynamic, both in terms of location and scope, than separatist conflicts.

Keywords: armed conflict; civil war; conflict location; data; geographic disaggregation; geographic information systems; new dataset (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894211433168

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