UCDP External Support Dataset
type: Dataset
description: The UCDP, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, contains information on a large number data on organised violence, armed violence, and peacemaking. There is information from 1946 up to today, and the datasets are updated continuously. The data can be downloaded for free, and available in several different versions. The UCDP External Support Data contains information of external support in intrastate conflicts, 1975-2010. Provides information of kind of support, extern actor and specific year. The data is divided into two separate datasets which are analogous, i.e. contain identical data structured in a different manner to simplify various types of research such as different types of statistical analyses: 1. One dataset provide data where the unit of analysis is a warring party-year, providing information on the existence, type, and provider of external support for all warring parties (actors) coded as active in UCDP data, on an annual basis. The dataset contains information for the time-period 1975–2010. It involves 29 variables and 3606 individuals/objects. 2. One dataset provide data where the unit of analysis is the warring party-supporter-year, i.e. each row in the dataset contains information on the type of support that a warring party receives from a specific external party in a given year, using dummy variables for each category of support. The dataset contains information for the time-period 1975–2010. It involves 30 variables and 6519 individuals/objects.
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Högbladh, Stina, Therése Pettersson & Lotta Themnér, 2011. “External Support in Armed Conflict 1975–2009. Presenting new data” Paper presented at the 52nd Annual International Studies Association Convention, Montreal, Canada, 16-19 March, 2011.
citation: CreativeWork
  name: Pettersson, Therése, 2011. “Pillars of Strength – External Support to Warring Parties”, in Therése Pettersson & Lotta Themnér eds., States in Armed Conflict 2010. Research Report 94. Uppsala: Universitetstryckeriet
conditions of access: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
conditions of access: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
creative work status: completed
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  in defined term set: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/dataset-status
  term code: COMPLETED
creator: Stina Högbladh
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Högbladh
  given name: Stina
creator: Therése Pettersson
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Pettersson
  given name: Therése
creator: Lotta Themnér
  type: Person
  affiliation: Uppsala University
  family name: Themnér
  given name: Lotta
date modified: 2024-08-07
date published: 2015-02-13
language: English
keywords: Conflict, security and peace
keywords: Social Sciences
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 5
keywords: Political Science
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 506
keywords: wars
keywords: guerillas
keywords: violence (activity)
keywords: peacekeeping
keywords: guerilla warfare
keywords: peace negotiations
keywords: peace
keywords: guerilla movements
keywords: peace research
keywords: civil wars
keywords: peace work
publisher: Uppsala University
temporal coverage: 1975/2010
version: 1

Uppsala University
type: Organization
department: Department of Peace and Conflict Research

English
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alternate name: eng

Conflict, security and peace
type: DefinedTerm
description: Internal and international security and safety, internal and international conflicts, war and peace, national defence and defence forces (the army). Use note: The police are covered by 'Crime and law enforcement'.
term code: Politics.ConflictSecurityAndPeace

INTERNAL POLITICAL CONFLICT
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CONFLICT
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ARMED FORCES
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guerillas
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violence (activity)
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peacekeeping
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guerilla warfare
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peace negotiations
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peace
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guerilla movements
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peace research
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civil wars
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term code: p15837

peace work
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term code: p4907