All databases
25 of the most important academic databases on armed conflicts: “Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project” (ACLED), “Correlates Of War” (COW), “Center for Systemic Peace” (CSP), “Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research” (HIIK), “Peace Research Institute Oslo” (PRIO), “Uppsala Conflict Data Program” (UCDP) etc.
27 analysis metadata: I/ Conflict variable, II/ Time variable, III/ Space variable, IV/ Data structure, V/ All variables, VI/ Transparency, VII/ Update, VIII/ Access etc. For full details, see the “CONFLICT DATABASE COMPASS codebook” article.
Below, you’ll find an analysis sheet for each database.
Via the “DATAWAR compass” page, you can search by metadata.
[ACLED] Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (v. 2019-08-13-2022-08-23)
“The ACLED project codes reported information on the type, agents, location, date, and other characteristics of political violence events, demonstrations and select politically relevant non-violent events. ACLED focuses on tracking…
[COW] Dyadic Inter-State War Dataset (v. 3.0)
“The dyadic war dataset is built and fully compatible with the dyadic MID dataset (Maoz et al. 2019). It provides dyadic records of interstate wars over the period of 1816-2010,…
[COW] Extra-State War Data (v. 4.0)
“The Correlates of War (COW) Project has utilized a classification of wars that is based upon the status of territorial entities, in particular focusing on those that are classified as…
[COW] Inter-State War Data (v. 4.0)
“The Correlates of War (COW) Project has utilized a classification of wars that is based upon the status of territorial entities, in particular focusing on those that are classified as…
[COW] Intra-State War Data (v. 4.1)
“The Correlates of War (COW) Project has utilized a classification of wars that is based upon the status of territorial entities, in particular focusing on those that are classified as…
[COW] Intra-State War Data (v. 5.1) (Participants version)
“The Intra-state Dataset v4.0 was released with the other updated war data (inter-state war, extra-state war, and non-state war) in Resort to War: A Data Guide to Inter-State, Extra-State, Intra-state,…
[COW] Intra-State War Data (v. 5.1) (Wars version)
“The Intra-state Dataset v4.0 was released with the other updated war data (inter-state war, extra-state war, and non-state war) in Resort to War: A Data Guide to Inter-State, Extra-State, Intra-state,…
[COW] Non-State War Data (v. 4.0)
“Previously, the Correlates of War (COW) Project has examined only wars that involved the government of a member of the interstate system (a state) in one form or another. The…
[CSP] Major Episodes of Political Violence (MEPV) and Conflict Regions (v. 2012) (Full Set)
“Center for Systemic Peace, Major Episodes of Political Violence, 1946-2018 (War List), [A/] Annual Set lists annual, cross-national, time-series data on interstate, societal, and communal warfare magnitude scores (independence, interstate,…