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What you should know about this indicator

'1' indicates that the state participated in a conflict. '0' indicates that the state did not participate in a conflict.

States involved in state-based conflicts
State was a primary participant in at least one interstate, intrastate, or extrasystemic conflict that year.
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Peace Research Institute Oslo (2023) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
September 21, 2023
Date range
1946–2022

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

This dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized violence (phenomena of lethal violence occurring at a given time and place). These events are sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded down to the level of individual villages, with temporal durations disaggregated to single, individual days.

You can find more notes at https://web.archive.org/web/20230618115833/https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ged/ged231.pdf

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September 21, 2023
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Citation
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Davies, Shawn, Therese Pettersson & Magnus Öberg (2023). Organized violence 1989-2022 and the return of conflicts between states?. Journal of Peace Research 60(4).
Sundberg, Ralph, and Erik Melander, 2013, “Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset”, Journal of Peace Research, vol.50, no.4, 523-532

A conflict-year dataset with information on armed conflict where at least one party is the government of a state in the time period 1946-2022.

You can find more notes at https://web.archive.org/web/20230624120457/https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ucdpprio/ucdp-prio-acd-231.pdf

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September 21, 2023
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Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Davies, Shawn, Therese Pettersson & Magnus Öberg (2023). Organized violence 1989-2022 and the return of conflicts between states?. Journal of Peace Research 60(4)
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg, and Håvard Strand (2002) Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 39(5).

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“Data Page: States involved in state-based conflicts”, part of the following publication: Bastian Herre, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Max Roser, Joe Hasell and Bobbie Macdonald (2024) - “War and Peace”. Data adapted from Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Peace Research Institute Oslo. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/states-involved-in-state-based-conflicts [online resource]
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Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Peace Research Institute Oslo (2023) – processed by Our World in Data. “States involved in state-based conflicts” [dataset]. Uppsala Conflict Data Program, “Georeferenced Event Dataset v23.1”; Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Peace Research Institute Oslo, “Armed Conflict version 23.1” [original data]. Retrieved July 4, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/states-involved-in-state-based-conflicts