Uppsala Conflict Data Program
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is a project to collect data on military conflicts since 1946. The project is led by the University of Uppsala in collaboration with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) .
Emergence
In the 1970s, members of Uppsala University began to analyze and de facto record military conflicts. In 1988 a first publication of the data was published in the SIPRI yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . A database of military conflicts from 1989 to 2002 was created by 2002. With the help of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the database was expanded to include historical data up to 1946. Thanks to the collaboration between the Uppsala and Oslo faculties , UCDP now covers a period from 1946 to 2016. A large report is published every year that contains the latest data and is printed in many magazines. In addition, there are now smaller databases that pay special attention to individual continents . These are also renewed regularly.
organization
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program is based at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. The project is led by Dag Hammarskjöld and Peter Wallensteen . The project employs around 15 people, who mainly work as researchers or assistants. Even students be part of the UCDP.
Partnerships
The UCDP is operated by Uppsala University in partnership with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). There is also close cooperation with the Human Security Report Project . The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is also one of the supporters and partners of UCDP. The data of the UCDP project has appeared in the institute's yearbook since 1988.
Definition of a "military conflict"
An essential part of the database is the definition of a military conflict that is relevant for the database . The definition of a military conflict in the Uppsala Conflict Data Program states that this conflict must have resulted in at least 25 deaths as a result of military actions. There are also three types of military conflict - state, non-state and unilateral. In the case of a state conflict, at least one state is involved, while a non-state conflict is a conflict between non-state organizations. So-called unilateral violence refers to the use of military force by a state or an organization against civilians . This category includes, for example, terrorist attacks . The definition of the UCDP is now also used by other organizations and has become a standard for the investigation and analysis of conflicts.
Data
The main information available on the Uppsala Conflict Data Program website is:
- the absolute number of military conflicts around the world / year
- the countries involved in military conflict for any period between 1946 and 2016
- the number of deaths / year in a country and the distribution among the various types of military conflict
- the number of deaths as a result of military conflicts worldwide from 1989 to 2012
- the geographical distribution of deaths within countries
The most important key figures 1976–2016
For the sake of clarity, the data from the UCDP are shown here at 5-year intervals:
| Number of state military conflicts | Number of non-state conflicts | Number of cases of unilateral violence | Dead state conflict | Dead non-state conflict | Dead unilateral violence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 30th | not specified | n / A | n / A | n / A | n / A |
| 1981 | 41 | n / A | n / A | n / A | n / A | n / A |
| 1986 | 44 | n / A | n / A | n / A | n / A | n / A |
| 1991 | 52 | 22nd | 33 | 70,309 | 3,974 | 8,981 |
| 1996 | 41 | 22nd | 36 | 28.206 | 4,250 | 39,469 |
| 2001 | 39 | 36 | 30th | 22,430 | 5,008 | 7,463 |
| 2006 | 33 | 29 | 28 | 19,865 | 3,246 | 4,421 |
| 2011 | 38 | 41 | 23 | 23,088 | 6,752 | 5,790 |
| 2016 | 50 | 60 | 21st | 87,018 | 9,034 | 6,278 |
Germany in the UCDP
In Germany, Uppsala University counted 20 deaths between 1989 and 2016. One death occurred on July 2, 1989 when a British soldier was killed in a car bomb attack. The IRA is committed to this so that the death can be assigned to the military conflict Great Britain -IRA. This conflict also includes two further deaths from October 1989 and the murder of two British soldiers in Dortmund on June 1, 1990. On September 17, 1992, four Kurdish activists were shot in Wilmersdorf. The Iranian secret service pulled the strings , so these deaths were part of the Kurdish-Iran conflict. The other deaths occurred on December 16, 2016 in the attack on the Berlin Christmas market . This terrorist attack is part of the unilateral violence of a state or an organization against civilians.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peace Pesearch Institute Oslo (PRIO): UCDP / PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset - PRIO. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ↑ UCDP Dataset Download Center. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Human Security Report (ed.): Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21st Century .
- ^ SIPRI Yearbook: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security | SIPRI. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
- ^ Definitions - Uppsala University, Sweden. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ^ Definitions - Uppsala University, Sweden. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ^ UCDP - Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
- ↑ July 2nd, 1989 - What was on July 2nd, 1989 - Events of the day - Chroniknet . In: Chroniknet . ( chroniknet.de [accessed June 11, 2017]).
- ^ Contract murder in Wilmersdorf . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed June 11, 2017]).
- ^ UCDP - Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .