Conflict Data Sets

The 16 data sets below are grouped according to whether they focus primarily on the patterns of conflict occurrence, the causes and processes of conflict, or costs of conflict and conflict early warning. The categories are not exclusive and are intended only as a rough guide. For a more detailed version of this list view the relevant webpage. For a full discussion of the data sets below please download 'Measuring violence: An introduction to conflict data sets' from the SIPRI Yearbook 2002.

Patterns of conflict occurrence

• Correlates of War (COW and COW2)
• Conflict Data Project
• Conflict Simulation Model (Konflikt-Simulations-Modell, KOSIMO)
• Major Episodes of Political Violence (MEPV)
  

Causes and processes of conflict

• International Crisis Behaviour Project
• Correlates of War–Militarized Interstate Disputes (MID 3)
• Behavioral Correlates of War (BCOW)
• Issue Correlates of War (ICOW)
• Rivalry Data Set
• Internal Wars and Failures of Governance: State Failure Data Set
• Minorities at Risk
• Violent Intrastate Nationalist Conflicts (VINC)
• Third Party Interventions in Intrastate Conflict
  

Costs of conflict and conflict early warning

• Protocol for the Assessment of Nonviolent Direct Action (PANDA)
• The Global Event-Data System (GEDS)
• The Kansas Events Data System (KEDS)