Armed conflicts and natural resources : scientific report on global atlas and information centre for conflicts and natural resources

The project "Global Atlas and Information Centre for Conflicts and Natural Resources" had the aim to collect and to analyze data related to the link between armed conflicts and natural resources. Four pilot study areas were selected: African Great Lakes, Horn of Africa, Western Africa and Central Asia. The newly created conflict event dataset together with datasets of natural resources, economic activity, land cover and other datasets were used to describe conditions of armed conflicts through construction of statistical conflict model. The model was also used to identify the areas with elevated risk of armed conflict. All data, documents and results are available on the project website.