DATAWAR compass

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.
Via the “All databases” page, you’ll find an analysis sheet for each database.
Below, you can search by metadata.

Event (< 0 or 1 death)

Conflict (< 25 deaths)

War (< 100 deaths)

Episode (< 500 deaths)

State-based conflict

Non-state conflict

One-sided violence

TO BE DETERMINED

Day

Year

TO BE DETERMINED

Coordinates

Country

Region

TO BE DETERMINED

Global

Mediterranean Sea and Sahel

TO BE DETERMINED

Unit of conflict (UC)

UC-year

UC-actor

Country-year

Actor-year

Dyad-year

OTHER

TO BE DETERMINED

Intergovernmental organizations

Governmental organizations

Non-governmental organizations

Research organizations

Press media

Social media

Other databases

OTHER

TO BE DETERMINED

Real-time

Month

Quarter

Annually

YES, PERIOD TO BE DETERMINED

TO BE DETERMINED

YES

.XLS/.XLSX

.CSV

.DTA (STATA)

.RDTA

YES

TO BE DETERMINED

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I/1/ Unit of conflict

I/2/ Conflict domain

II/1/ Unit of time

II/2/ Time domain

:

III/1/ Unit of space

III/2/ Space domain

IV/1/ Unit of observation

IV/2/ Number of observations

Number of observations: -

V/ All variables

VI/1/ Sources

VI/2/ Codebook

Date:

VII/1/ Current version

Date:

VII/2/ Regularly updated ?

VIII/1/ Registration ?

VIII/2/ Formats

VIII/3/ API ?