The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), part of the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), in Oslo, Norway provides public access to their research datasets.
“CSCW has developed a set of datasets for use in the study of the determinants of armed conflict. In addition, CSCW has adapted several other datasets for use in quantitative studies of armed conflict. We have grouped the datasets thematically into four categories:”
Data on Armed Conflict
- Uppsala/PRIO Armed Conflict Database
- Battle Deaths Data
- Conflict Sites 1946-2003
Governance Datasets
- Tatu Vanhanen’s Polyarchydataset
- Archigos
- Polity IIId
- Polity IV
Geographical and Resource Datasets
- Lentgh of international boundaries
- Distances between states
- Shared rivers
- Shared river basins
- Diamond Resources
Economic and Socio-Demographic Data
- Ethnic Composition Data
- Demographic Data
- Expanded Trade and GDP
Also, over 30 datasets from articles published by PRIO‘s Centre for the Study of the Civil War and the Conditions of War and Peace Programme are available for download on the Replication Datasets page.