Contributions to the quantitative civil war literature increasingly rely on geo-referenced data
and disaggregated research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates …

Since the late 1990s, there has been a flood of research on natural resources and civil war.
This article reviews 14 recent cross-national econometric studies, and many qualitative …

Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation
and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fractionalization within …

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is
central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research …

In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of
or part of 2001. Armed conflict remains a serious problem in the post-Cold War period. For …

This paper introduces the Non-State Actors in Armed Conflict Dataset (NSA), which contains
detailed information on the state–rebel group dyads included in the Uppsala Conflict Data …

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This article presents ACLED, an Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset. ACLED codes
the actions of rebels, governments, and militias within unstable states, specifying the exact …

This paper conducts the first analysis of the effect of armed conflict on progress in meeting
the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. We also examine the effect of conflict on …

This article presents new data on the start and end dates and the means of termination for
armed conflicts, 1946—2005. These data contribute to quantitative research on conflict …