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All set up to meet you at #ecprgc24 in Dublin! If you are interested in how Demscore provides user-friendly free access to data, documentation, and online visualization tools, come talk to us at booth 14 during the ECPR Conference. European Consortium for Political Research

Final call! The Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament is recruiting a Senior lecturer in Peace and Conflict research, specialising in Nuclear Disarmament. The deadline for applications is 23 August 2024. Find out more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Attending #APSA2024? Visit us in Booth 510 to find out how the #Demscore e-infrastructure helps you harmonize data from some of the world’s leading research infrastructures and databases - for free! 🥂Booth reception September 6, with GLD, V-Dem Institute and QoG (booth 408).

What counts as a war must be determined by a global standard rather than the subjective views of different parties, argues UCDP project leader Therese Pettersson in this recent article by Sveriges Television (SVT).👇 svt.se/nyheter/utrike…

🔦Spotlight on Demscore Modules: UCDP/VIEWS UCDP provides data on organized violence and is the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war. Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) VIEWS is an ambitious early-warning system at the frontier of research on conflict forecasting. 🧵1(7) 👇

DEMSCORE v4.0 is now available! Explore new data and features on our website, including two new thematic datasets on Corruption, and Security & Violence. More details coming soon. demscore.se

New in #Demscore v4: The thematic dataset on #Security and #Violence provides a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in studying the patterns, causes, and effects of violence and security. Download at demscore.se/data/thematic-… 🧵1(3) 👇

Die Ukraine und der Nahe Osten sind nur die Spitze des Eisbergs: So viele Konflikte gab es seit dem 2.Weltkrieg nicht mehr 📈 Eine Übersicht in Grafiken 👇🏻 tagesanzeiger.ch/ukraine-nahost… (Abo) tagesanzeiger Mathias Lutz cc UCDP PRIO Global Peace Index Geneva Academy of IHL and Human Rights ACLED

New in #Demscore v4: The Demscore e-infrastructure has been expanded with new datasets from UCDP and MIGPOL. #UCDP Peacemakers at Risk Risk (PAR) Dataset #MIGPOL Historical Immigration Policies (HIP) Explore the new data at demscore.se

💡 Data #Hack: Using Demscore to Combine External Data New Blog Post on a very useful Demscore-hack! Demscore can minimize the usual hassle of combining data from different sources 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬. demscore.se/news/using-dem…

What do the UCDP and Taylor Swift have in common? Australian ABC summarizes 2024 as the year that shook the world: abc.net.au/news/2024-12-2…

Valuable piece on conflict trends in Africa, w/contributions from ACLED UCDP Ken Opalo: wsj.com/world/africa/a…

"An unprecedented explosion of conflicts has carved a trail of death and destruction across the breadth of Africa—from #Mali near the continent’s western edge all the way to #Somalia on its eastern Horn" reports The Wall Street Journal, using PRIO & UCDP data. 🔗wsj.com/world/africa/a…

The debate around the Swedish prime minister’s statement that Sweden currently is neither in a state of #war nor a state of #peace, highlights the importance of #definitions, such as the ones by UCDP. UCDP project leader Therese Pettersson's comments.👉 etc.se/inrikes/kriste…

📢Call for Papers DEMSCORE Conference 2025 We invite submissions for research papers, panels, and workshop proposals for the #DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16 See demscore.se/events/demscor… #SocialScience #Data

UCDP Candidate Events Data are now available for the full year 2024 at ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ This map shows lethal events of organized violence at the PRIO-GRID level (download pdf for better resolution) tinyurl.com/2yrz97va

UCDP's Therese Pettersson talks conflict trends & the emotional toll of researching violence on Finnish Radio Yle Vega. (In Swedish) arenan.yle.fi/poddar/1-73638…

If you are at #ISA2025, come visit the UCDP in booth #109 in the exhibit hall for a chat on conflict data and some Swedish chocolate.

We are now receiving applications for one fully funded #PhDposition in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more. 👉 uu.se/en/about-uu/jo… Also see our general PhD position.👉 uu.se/en/about-uu/jo… #Democracy

In their new paper, Schumann and Bara connect different forms of war-related UCDP violence and specific civil wars. A valuable read for anyone looking to understand how various forms of violence intersect and impact conflict dynamics. doi.org/10.1177/205316…