An Overview of Databases on Conflicts and Political Crises

Petra Rodik (), Drazen Penzar and Armano Srbljinovic ()
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Petra Rodik: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy - University of Zagreb
Drazen Penzar: SOKO Z.I.
Armano Srbljinovic: Croatian Ministry of Defence's Institute for R&D of Defence Systems

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, 2003, vol. 1, issue 1-2, 9-21

Abstract: This paper provides an overview of important projects concerned with the development of databases on conflicts, crises and similar political events and those dealing with the structural characteristics of nation-states. The various databases are usually differently conceptualized, even when they describe the same phenomenon. Different conceptualization of the problem leads to distinct operational definitions, and eventually to divergent coding rules. Therefore, the researcher intending to use the existing data for statistical analysis or modelling social processes can become lost browsing the multitude of diverse datasets. In this overview, the short descriptions of important data-gathering projects include information on the institutions where the projects are placed, their principal investigators, time span and number of cases they include. Finally, all databases are classified according to their focus (event/structure) and their level (nation-state/international relations) of observation. Classification-ACM-1998: H.0 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]

Keywords: database; conflict; political event; nation-state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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