What They Are Fighting For – Introducing the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset

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ID6284491
AutoresJohan Brosché (0000-0002-1282-9823, Uppsala University, autor correspondente), Ralph Sundberg (0000-0002-1167-2799, Swedish Defence University)
Ano2023
Data de publicação2023-11-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00220027231218633
OpenAlexW4389057064
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas52

Although conflict issues – the stated goals of actors engaged in conflict – hold a privileged position in many theoretical explanations of the occurrence, dynamics, and resolution of civil war, global issue data are scarce beyond datasets that focus on specific thematic areas. This article aims to bring issues into the forefront of civil war scholarship by presenting the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset (CID). This global yearly dataset contains 14,832 conflict issues – divided, at the most disaggregated level, into 120 sub-categories – raised by armed non-state groups involved in intrastate armed conflict in 1989-2017. By bringing issues back in, the UCDP CID provides opportunities to reevaluate several central questions about the onset, duration, intensity, and resolution of civil war

Armed conflict · Civil Conflict · Conflict analysis · Conflict resolution · Conflict resolution research · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Position (finance · Scholarship · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · Computer Science · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence