Nachama Rosen
Assignment 5
Source 1:
1. DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda Armed Conflict Location and Event Data
2. ACLED is designed to present an assessment of violent political activity within a state.
3. Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED)
4. http://www.acleddata.com/index.php/data
5. December 2012
6. January 1997-December 2012
7. Vector Dataset
8. Unknown source scale
9. Event time, event type, actors, location, coordinates, source, notes, fatalities
Source 2:
1. The Ethnic Power Relations data set
2. GeoEPR provides the regional bases and settlement patters of the ethnic groups included in
the Ethnic Power Relations dataset (EPR). The data is provided in GIS (geographic information
system) shapefile format.
3. The EPR project is a collaborative effort between researchers at ETH Zurich and the
University of California Los Angeles.
4. http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/epr
5. March 30th, 2011
6. 1946 – 2005
7. Polygons
8. Unknown source scale
9. ID that matches EPR data set to identify the group, the geographic period which is defined
as the period where the group geography can be treated as constant , settlement type (6
options)
Source 3:
1. The Ethnic Power Relations data set
2. The Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset identifies 733 politically relevant ethnic groups in
155 sovereign states from 1946 to 2005, provides group size estimates, codes the level of
access to the executive branch by representatives of these groups in each year, and notes if an
armed conflict was fought in the name of a particular ethnic group.
3. The EPR project is a collaborative effort between researchers at ETH Zurich and the
University of California Los Angeles.
4. http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/epr
5. February 10th, 2010
6. 1946-2005
7. Stata data set
8. Unknown source scale
9. Country, groups, year
Source 4:
1. UCDP Geo-Event Dataset - Point data
2. This dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized
violence. The basic unit of analysis is an “event”. An event is defined as “The incidence of the
use of armed force by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians,
resulting in at least 1 direct death in either the best, low or high estimate categories at a specific
location and for a specific temporal duration.”
3. Uppsala Conflict Data Program
4. http://pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/datasets/ucdp_ged/
5. November 2012
6. 1989-2010
7. Vector Dataset
8. Unknown source scale
9. Event time, event type, actors, location, coordinates, notes, fatalities
Source 5:
1. Social Conflict in Africa Database (SCAD)
2. SCAD includes georeferenced data on protests, riots, strikes, coups, communal violence, and
other types of social unrest in Africa. SCAD includes all countries in Africa with a
population of over one million.
3. The Climate Change and African Political Stability Program is a five-year research program
at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at
Austin, partnered with the College of William and Mary, Trinity College Dublin, and University
of North Texas.
4. http://www.strausscenter.org/ccaps/data
5. March 2012
6. 1990-2011
7. Excel spreadsheet with longitude and latitude coordinates
8. Unknown source scale
9. Start and end dates of event, type of event, actors and targets involved, number of
participants, number of fatalities, use of government repression, event locations, and issues of
contention