Affiliation:
1. Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
2. Department of War Studies and Military History, Swedish Defence University, Sweden
Abstract
Although conflict issues – the stated goals of actors engaged in conflict – hold a privileged position in many theoretical explanations of the occurrence, dynamics, and resolution of civil war, global issue data are scarce beyond datasets that focus on specific thematic areas. This article aims to bring issues into the forefront of civil war scholarship by presenting the UCDP Conflict Issues Dataset (CID). This global yearly dataset contains 14,832 conflict issues – divided, at the most disaggregated level, into 120 sub-categories – raised by armed non-state groups involved in intrastate armed conflict in 1989-2017. By bringing issues back in, the UCDP CID provides opportunities to reevaluate several central questions about the onset, duration, intensity, and resolution of civil war.
Funder
Vetenskapsrådet
Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science,General Business, Management and Accounting
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