results. Drawing on data from the Correlates of War database, we present an empirical analysis of conflict intensity …

practices and offers advice to those involved in collecting conflict data as well as those who are regular users of such data … quantitative data on conflict processes. …

As far back as Thucydides, scholars have hypothesized that power affects the onset of conflict. Despite its importance … conflict. In this article, we develop a new measure of external power that explicitly accounts for the external sources of …

We highlight how efforts to collect systematic data on conflict have helped foster progress in peace and conflict … new wave of disaggregated conflict data. We survey progress in the development of conflict data and how this interacts … disaggregation and agency in conflict research. We focus on disaggregation in three specific dimensions, namely the resolution of …

probability of civil conflict onset. We argue that welfare spending contributes to sustaining peace because the provision of … social security) increases, the likelihood of civil conflict onset declines significantly, controlling for several other … covariates of internal conflict. Additional data analysis shows that general public spending and military expenditures are …

results. Drawing on data from the Correlates of War database, we present an empirical analysis of conflict intensity …

In 2011, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) recorded 37 armed conflicts with a minimum of 25 battle … violence than conventional armed conflict. The number of active conflicts still remains at a relatively low level compared to …

There is a large literature on the economic costs of military conflict, which uses a variety of methods including … accounting procedures, statistical models and event studies of how stock markets respond to news of conflict. This literature is … arbitrariness by not considering benefits. This article uses four questions to structure a discussion of the calculation of conflict …

In 2013, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) recorded 33 armed conflicts with a minimum of 25 battle … 1946. For the past ten years the amount of active armed conflict has fluctuated between 31 and 37. Six peace agreements … difficulty in mapping the conflict in Syria, for which no credible battle-related deaths in 2013 can yet be reported. …

The authors analyse newly collected time-series data measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt … different dimensions of the conflict. The authors find that the combination of political repression and military counter … other hand, the overall level of conflict intensity in Egypt can be mitigated by food subsidies. Finally, the existence of …