This textbook offers an overview of different methods and sources for information gathering
for peace research, as well as the challenges presented by such work. Research on conflict …

How does sourcing affect which events are included in international relations datasets? The
increasing number of machine-coded datasets offers the promise of coding a larger corpus …

In a much-cited recent article, Obermeyer, Murray, and Gakidou (2008a) examine estimates
of wartime fatalities from injuries for thirteen countries. Their analysis poses a major …

Background Armed violence is a major public health and humanitarian problem in Iraq. In
this descriptive statistical analysis we aimed to describe for the first time Iraqi civilian deaths …

The spread of Internet and mobile phone access around the world has implications for both
the processes of contentious politics and subsequent reporting of protest, terrorism, and war …

Temporally and spatial disaggregated datasets are commonly used to study political
violence. Researchers are increasingly studying the data generation process itself to …

Researchers aspiring to say something about a large number of cases, that is, those who
want to be able to generalize from their findings, need good quality data that is comparable …

Beeinflussen Massenmedien den Gang der internationalen Politik? Alexander Brand gibt
hierauf eine differenzierte Antwort, die Medien weder zu Sündenböcken für fehlgeschlagene …

Subnational comparative research has received increasing attention as a method that is
academically rigorous and offers in-depth knowledge about specific cases. However, the …

In 2022, the world experienced the deadliest year of armed conflict since the 1994 Rwandan
genocide. Much of the intensity and frequency of recent conflicts has drawn more attention to …