CRS Datasets Directory
The CRS Datasets Directory provides a list of datasets on peace and conflict. The dataset was compiled by Conflict Research Society on behalf of Conciliation Resources in 2016, funded by UK aid from the UK Department for International Development.
| Category | Topic | Data sources | Description | Temporal Coverage | Geographic coverage | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset | This is the industry standard dataset on armed conflict. The UCDP considers an armed conflict to be a contest over the government and/or territory, where armed violence between two actors (one of which is the state) results in at least 25 battle-related deaths per year. | 1946-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | UCDP Non-State Conflict Dataset | This follows the same criteria above, but codes armed conflict between non-state actors i.e. violence occuring between rebels groups or militia forces. | 1989-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | UCDP One-sided Violence | This follows the same criteria above, but codes violence carried out against civilians in the threatre of war and extrajudicial killings in custody. | 1989-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset | This is an event dataset combining the three types of UCDP conflicts above. The dataset includes 128,264 georeferenced incidences of armed conflict, non-state violence and one-sided violence. | 1989-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | COW Intra-State War Data (v4.0) | This is an alternative leading dataset on armed conflict. This dataset encompasses COW datasets on non-state, intra-state, interstate, and extrastate (comparable to the UCDP datasets). However, armed conflicts here are coded when a conflict reaches 1000 battle-related deaths. | 1816-2007 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Social Conflict in Analysis Database Version 3.0 (SCAD) | This is a leading event dataset comprising of social events such as protests, strikes, riots, state repression, intra-government violence and violence by non-state actors. Violent events are low-intensity and very rarely meet the criteria of the UCDP datasets. | 1990-2015 | Africa and Central America/Caribbean | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset Version 6 (ACLED) | This is another leading event dataset comprising of social conflict involving a variety of actors: rebels, governments, militias, armed groups, protesters and civilians. This dataset includes violent and nonviolent events involving these actors and also reports changes in territorial control. | 1997-2015 | Mainly Africa and limited coverage in Asia (2015-2016) | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset Version 6 (ACLED) | This dataset also has events on criminal vigilante violence | 1997-2015 | Africa | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Banks Cross-National Time-Series (CNTS) Data Archive | The Banks dataset is another widely used event dataset (although more in Economics than Political Science) comprising a variety of social conflicts including nonviolent resistance, assassinations, purges, guerilla warefare, government crises, revolutions and riots. | 1815-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes V2.0 (NAVCO) | This is the industry standard dataset on nonviolent and violent campaigns against the government, including 250 campaigns. This has widely been used to explore the success of different types of movements, why opposition groups use nonviolent or violent strategies, and the impact of state repression on these campaigns. | 1945-2006 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes V1.1 (NAVCO) | This is the industry standard dataset on nonviolent and violent campaigns against the government, including 250 campaigns. This has widely been used to explore the success of different types of movements, why opposition groups use nonviolent or violent strategies, and the impact of state repression on these campaigns. | 1900-2006 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Mass Mobilisation Data Project | This dataset is similar to NAVCO, but provides more recent events data on violent and nonviolent mass mobilisation against the government. | 1990-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Global Terrorism Database (GTD) | This is the industry standard dataset on terrorist related events, and the most comprehensive includes over 150,000 terrorist attacks. | 1970-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | UNODC Global Study on Homicide | This dataset complies data on rates of intentional homicide count and rate per 100,000 population, by country. | 2000-2012 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | Reputation of Terror Groups dataset (RTG) | This dataset lists 443 terrorist groups operating across 31 years and the characterists of these groups (positive engagements in media and politics and negative enagagement in criminal behaviour such as coersive funding and enagagement in violence) | 1980-2011 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Conflict and Violence | The Turkish State-PKK Conflict Event Dataset | TPCONED is a dataset on the fatal events of the armed conflict between the rebel organization PKK and the Turkish state that took place on Turkish soil and in which there was at least one combatant casualty. For each event, the exact date, location at the county (town) level, location at the province level, number of TSF and PKK casualties, and the data sources are listed. The dataset covers the conflict from its very beginning in 1984. Events were cross checked across different sources to make sure that the resulting dataset is as comprehensive, complete and accurate as possible. | 1984-2019 | Turkey | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Human Rights Obervance | Freedom House - Freedom in the World | This is a global dataset that measures levels of political rights and press freedoms across countries | 1973-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Human Rights Obervance | The Political Terror Scale | This is a leading dataset on human rights abuses, looking at practices and violence deployed by states against its citizens. | 1976-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Human Rights Obervance | CIRI Human Rights Data Project | This is a leading alternative dataset on human rights abuses and repression, looking at practices and policies of states and conditions within them. | 1981-2011 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Human Rights Obervance | Ill-Treatment and Torture (ITT) Dataset | This dataset collates 15,000 public allegations of government ill-treatment and torture based on amnesty international reports | 1995-2005 | Global | Click here |
| Conflict Trends | Human Rights Obervance | Global Peace Index (GPI) | This is a measure of national peacefulness, the GPI measures peace according to 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators. | 2008-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Inclusion / Exclusion | Ethnic Power Relations Core Dataset 2014 | This is a industry standard dataset that identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups and their levels of access to state power in every country of the world | 1946-2013 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Inclusion / Exclusion | Geo-EPR Dataset | This uses the EPR data above, but provides geographical locations of where these politically relevant ethnic groups predominately reside (based on polygons describing their location on a digital map). | 1946-2013 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Inclusion / Exclusion | Minorities at Risk (MAR) | This is a leading alternative dataset on ethnic groups and their level of political power. | 1945-2006 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Inclusion / Exclusion | All Minorities at Risk (AMAR) | This is a new leading dataset on ethnic groups and their level of political power, which builds directly on the Minorities at Risk dataset which has previously only focused on discriminated minority groups. | 1940-2006 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Gender (In relation to conflict and inclusion) | WomanStats | This dataset aims to capture the connection between the status of women and security. It covers over 350 variables for 175 nations with populations greater than 200,000 persons. | 2007-2016 (differs from scale to scale though) | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Gender (In relation to conflict and inclusion) | Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict - SVAC | This dataset captures the form and prevalence of sexual violence in armed conflict (international and internal conflicts). It also includes sexual violence in years between conflicts and the first 5 years after conflict. | 1989-2009 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Gender (In relation to conflict and inclusion) | Gender Based Violence Information Management System - GBVIMS | This dataset enables those providing services to GBV survivors to effectively and safely collect, store, analyze and share data related to the reported incidents of GBV. | 2007-2016 | in 24 countries globally | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Comparative Constitutions Project | This dataset collates the formal characteristics of written consitutions of all states since 1789. | 1789-2013 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Democracy and Dictatorship Revised Dataset | This dataset provides a classification of political systems of democracies and dictatorships. | 1946-2008 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | The Polity IV Project Version 5.0 | This dataset is the industry standard for measure of regime type (polity score) of all states with a population above 500,000 since 1800. | 1800-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Quality of Government (QOG) Standard Dataset | This is a leading and extremely comprehensive collection or directory of 100 key datasets on governance and conflict. | 1946-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Institutions and Elections Project (IAEP) Version 2.0 | This is a global dataset on political institutions, institutional provisions and electoral procedures. | 1960-2012 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy (NELDA) Version 4.0 | This is a leading global dataset on national-level elections across the world. | 1960-2012 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World | This is an alternative election global dataset on all democratic elections since 1946. | 1946-2011 | Global but only democratic countries | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Elections and Democracy in Africa | This is an alternative election dataset on African countries since 1989. | 1989-2007 | Africa | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Corruption Perceptions Index | The CPI index ranks countries based on how corrupt the public sector is perceived to be, based on surveys from non-government organisations. | 1995-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | International Country Risk Guide | This is a monthly index on the levels of corruption within a country based on the opinions of country experts. | 1980-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | World Values Survey | This dataset is a leading global survey on beliefs, values and motivations of individuals used to capture conflict related perceptions. | 1981-2014 (note not annual data but waves of data within this period) | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | World Values Survey | This dataset is a leading global survey on beliefs, values and motivations of individuals used to capture conflict related perceptions. | 1981-2014 (note not annual data but waves of data within this period) | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | World Values Survey | This dataset is a leading global survey on beliefs, values and motivations of individuals used to capture conflict related perceptions. | 1981-2014 (note not annual data but waves of data within this period) | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | World Values Survey | This dataset is a leading global survey on beliefs, values and motivations of individuals used to capture conflict related perceptions. | 1981-2014 (note not annual data but waves of data within this period) | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | World Values Survey | This dataset is a leading global survey on beliefs, values and motivations of individuals used to capture conflict related perceptions. | 1981-2014 (note not annual data but waves of data within this period) | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | World Bank World Wide Governance Indictors | This dataset reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for over 200 countries since 1996. | 1996-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | State Fragility Index | This is an index of state fragility based on eight indicators of state legitimacy and effectiveness. | 1995-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Political Systems | Fragile States Index | This is an index of state fragility based on 12 indicators of demographic, societal, and governmental factors. | 2006-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Prio-Grid 2.0 | This is a leading global standardised spatial grid data stucture comibines various sources of data on roughtly 55x55 kilometre grid cells (or 0.5x0.5 degrees). | 1946-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Prio-Grid 2.0 | This data also has the location of drug production, diamonds and gems which can be used to proxy criminal behaviour by armed actors. | 1946-2004 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | NOAA DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Time Series (version 4) | This is a global collection of satellite nighttime light emissions often used as a proxy for economic production. | 1992-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS), v1 | This is a global digital collection of road maps across the world. | 1980-2010 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | G-Econ Dataset Version 4.0 | This is a global dataset on estimates of subnational economic activity across the world. | 1990-2005 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | SEDAC Global Poverty Mapping Project | This is a global collection of spatial data that estimates infant mortality rates and child malnutrition for the year 2000, aimed at mapping poverty. | 2000 only | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | The Demographic Health Survey (DHS) | This is a industry standard household survey with questions relating to health, wealth and HIV. | 1985-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Afrobarometer | This is a leading survey for Sub-Saharan Africa on perceptions and attitudes towards the state, the economy, health, food and governance. | 1999-2013 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Asia Barometer | This is a leading survey for Asiaon perceptions and attitudes towards the state, the economy, health, food and governance. | 2001-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Arab Barometer | This is a leading survey for the Arab World on perceptions and attitudes towards the state, the economy, health, food and governance. | 2006-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | Latinobarometro | This is a leading survey for Latin America on perceptions and attitudes towards the state, the economy, health, food and governance. | 1995-2013 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | United Nations Population Division World Fertility Data | This UN dataset provides estimated fertility rates for all countries across the world. | 1950-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | WHO Global Health Observatory Data Repository | This dataset on various aspects of health-related statistics for 194 member states. | 1990-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | The World Bank World Development Indicators | This is a leading dataset on various country-level indictors of global development. | 1990-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | The World Bank World Development Indicators | This is a leading dataset on various country-level indictors of global development. | 1960-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation | This is a leading dataset on child mortality rates (below age of 5). | 1970-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | UNESCO Data Centre (on Education) | This is a leading dataset on education enrolment and attainment, and financing. | 1970-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | WHO Global Burden of Disease | This is a dataset that complies data on causes of death. | 2000-2012 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | UNHCR Population Statistics Database | This is a industry standard dataset on refugee populations from the UNHCR. | 1951-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Drivers Of Conflict | Development | UN Human Development Index | HDI is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. | 1990-2014 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | Civil War Mediation | This documents approximately 460 third party mediation events in intrastate conflicts. | 1946-2004 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | International Conflict Management | This provides quantitative data on international conflicts and conflict management from 1945 through to 2003. | 1945-2003 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | UCDP Armed Conflict Termination | This dataset includes six possible outcomes for all inter- and intrastate conflicts. | 1946-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | UCDP Managing Intrastate Low-intensity Conflict (MILC) dataset | This is an event-dataset that covers all measures taken by third parties in low-intensity intrastate dyad-years in the time period 1993-2004. | 1993-2004 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | UCDP Managing Intrastate Conflict In Africa | This dataset contains all third party interventions in conflict dyads in Africa between 1993 and 2007. | 1993-2007 | Africa | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | Diplomatic Interventions and Civil War | This dataset includes 438 diplomatic interventions in 68 of 153 conflicts between 1945 and 1999. | 1945-1999 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Conflict Management | International Crisis Behaviour | This dataset 470 international crises, 35 protracted conflicts, and 1036 crisis actors from 1918-2013. | 1918-2013 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | (Inclusive) Peace Processes and Implementation | Peace Accords Matrix | This dataset contains 34 comprehensive intrastate peace agreements and tracks the implementation of 51 different types of provisions including: Ceasefire, Decentralization/Federalism, Constitutional Reform, Military Reform, Media Reform, and Verification Mechanism. | 1989-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | (Inclusive) Peace Processes and Implementation | Women and Peace Agreements Database | The database lists all the peace agreements between 1990 and the present day which have provisions on women, gender or sexual violence (301 observations), and provides full search features for what those provisions deal with. | 1990-2015 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | (Inclusive) Peace Processes and Implementation | Political Settlements and Peace Processes | PSRP has created the PA-X Peace Agreement Database, a database and repository of peace agreements from 1990 to 2018 that is capable of underpinning both qualitative and quantitative research. PA-X data is being used in a variety of initiatives and visualisations. | 1990-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | (Inclusive) Peace Processes and Implementation | UCDP Peace Agreements | This dataset covers peace agreements signed between at least two opposing primary warring parties in an armed conflict 1975-2011. | 1975-2011 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | (Inclusive) Peace Processes and Implementation | Police Reform in Peace Agreements | This dataset includes data on how peace agreements address the various technical, political, and international facets of post-conflict police reform. | 1975-2011 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | (Inclusive) Peace Processes and Implementation | UN Peace Agreements Database | This is a searchable database with currently 819 documents that can be understood broadly as peace agreements and related material. Full texts of the agreements accessible in different languages, searchable using different criteria, including themes, region, conflict type. | 1897-2016 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Characteristics of Armed Groups (proscription) | Non-state actors in civil war | This dataset contains detailed information on 477 state–rebel group dyads in 578 conflict spells. | 1945-2011 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Characteristics of Armed Groups (proscription) | Political Party Formation of Armed Opposition Groups | This dataset provides information on armed opposition groups within the UCDP dataset and whether they transitioned to political parties. | 1990-2009 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Characteristics of Armed Groups (proscription) | Dataset on Post-Civil War Power and Compromise | This dataset provides data on the military balances and political compromises that are made between the government and rebels forces in the post civil-war period. | 1990-2012 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Transitional Justice - Peace Processes | Transitional Justice Database | This dataset includes all countries that have experienced a transition from authoritarian rule to democracy or an internal armed conflict during the period of analysis - 91 transitions to democracy in 74 countries & 154 cases of internal armed conflict in 92 countries. | 1970-2004 | Global | Click here |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Transitional Justice - Peace Processes | Transitional Justice Peace Agreements Database | This dataset contains information relating to 660 documents addressing approximately 102 conflict dyads spanning 85 jurisdictions. It includes: proposed agreements not accepted by all relevant parties (but setting a framework); agreements between some but not all parties to conflicts; agreements essentially imposed after a military victory; joint declarations largely rhetorical in nature; agreed accounts of meetings between parties even where these do not create substantive obligations. In cases where a series of partial agreements were later incorporated into a single framework agreement, all of the constituent agreements are listed separately. | 1990-2008 | Global | Click here |
| Geographic Data | Africa | Afrobarometer | Surveys on public attitude on democracy and governance in African countries | 6 survey rounds, most recent 2014 | Regional | Click here |
| Geographic Data | Asia | Asiabarometer | Assesses the types of goods and services citizens value in order to improve the quality of their own lives and their country’s, as well as the developmental, democratic and regionalizing potentials | 2003-2008 | Regional | Click here |
| Geographic Data | South Caucasus: Georgian-Abkhaz context, Nagorno Karabakh | Caucasus Barometer | Annual household survey about social economic and political attitudes | 2008-2015 | Country level - Georgia and Armenia | Click here |
| Geographic Data | South Caucasus: Georgian-Abkhaz context, Nagorno Karabakh | Survey regarding 2008 Russia-Georgia Conflict | Attitudes towards politics in the country, the 2008 conflict | 2008 | Country level - Georgia | Click here |
| Geographic Data | Americas | LAPOP - AmericasBarometer | Public opinion surveys in the Americas (including US & Canada) | 2004-2014 | Regional - (41 countries) | Click here |
| Geographic Data | Colombia | CERAC - Database of the Armed Conflict in Colombia | More than 20,000 events - allowing analysis of actions of all conflict parties | 1988-2004? | Country level | Click here |
| Geographic Data | Colombia | CERAC - Municipalities | Captures status of conflict in each municipality | 2000-2012 | Click here | |
| Inclusive Peace Processes | Political Apologies | The Political Apologies Database | The Political Apologies Database is an inventory of political apologies offered by states or state representatives to a collective for human rights violations that happened in the recent or distant past. | 1947-2020 | Global | Click here |
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