Data and progress in peace and conflict research

Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (), Nils W Metternich and Andrea Ruggeri
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Kristian Skrede Gleditsch: University of Essex & Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Nils W Metternich: University College London
Andrea Ruggeri: University of Amsterdam

Journal of Peace Research, 2014, vol. 51, issue 2, 301-314

Abstract: We highlight how efforts to collect systematic data on conflict have helped foster progress in peace and conflict research. The Journal of Peace Research has played a key role in these developments, and has become a leading outlet for the new wave of disaggregated conflict data. We survey progress in the development of conflict data and how this interacts with theory development and progress in research, drawing specifically on examples from the move towards a greater focus on disaggregation and agency in conflict research. We focus on disaggregation in three specific dimensions, namely the resolution of conflict data, agency in conflict data, and the specific strategies used in conflict, and we also discuss new efforts to study conflict processes beyond the use of violence. We look ahead to new challenges in conflict research and how data developments and the emergence of ‘big data’ push us to think harder about types of conflict, agency, and the ‘right’ level of aggregation for querying data and evaluating specific theories.

Keywords: conflict; data; Journal of Peace Research; peace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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