As of early 2024, conflict data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and PRIO are featured in a new section of Our World in Data dedicated to War and Peace.
Our World in Data is a major international interactive database that seeks to document and visualize ‘the large problems that continue to confront us for centuries or much longer and the long-lasting, forceful changes that gradually reshape our world’ related to population, poverty, education, health, energy, food, the environment, human rights, democracy – and now, conflict.
Aside from describing trends in armed conflict across space and time, the section also includes an instructive introduction to how researchers define and measure conflict inspired by PRIO’s research in this field (e.g. the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset and the PRIO Battle deaths data).
‘We are enthusiastic that PRIO’s pioneering research in this area is now included in this widely used database,’ said Siri Aas Rustad, Senior Researcher and Head of PRIO’s Conflict Trends Project.
