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Russian Counter-Offensive in the International Arena Has Lost Momentum. One of the key goals for 2024 that President Vladimir Putin had apparently set at the end of the second year of the Ukraine war was to execute a sustained foreign policy counter-offensive to reduce Russia’s international isolation to irrelevance.
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Polity 3D. The POLITY3D dataset was collected using the POLITY3 data as a baseline, but added to that specific dating information about each polity change to allow for better temporal calibration with other datasets.
Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989–2021 - Peace Research Institute Oslo
This PRIO Paper examines conflict trends in Africa between 1989 and 2021. 30 state-based conflicts were recorded in 2021, resulting in 19,325 battle-related deaths. 8,917 of these deaths were related to conflicts in Ethiopia between the government and the …
Conflict Trends: A Global Overview, 1946–2022
This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2022 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2022, 55 state-based conflicts were recorded in 38 countries, and 8 of thse conflicts were classified as wars. The wars in …
New data shows record number of armed conflicts
Jun 10, 2024 · Last year saw the highest number of state-based conflicts since 1946. In addition, the past three years were the most violent in the last three decades, according to new conflict trend analysis.
UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset - Peace Research Institute Oslo
Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg & Håvard Strand, 2002. 'Armed Conflict 1946–2001: A New Dataset', Journal of Peace Research 39(5): 615–637.
Journal of Peace Research – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Journal of Peace Research is an interdisciplinary and international bimonthly, covering scholarly work in peace research. It strives for a global perspective on peace and peacemaking, with particular focus on the causes of violence and conflict resolution.
Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1989–2021
Palik, Júlia; Anna Marie Obermeier & Siri Aas Rustad (2022) Conflict Trends in the Middle East, 1989–2021. PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO. This PRIO Paper examines trends in armed conflicts in the Middle East between 1989 and 2021 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In addition, we ...
Shari’a Law and Women’s Rights – Peace Research Institute Oslo …
Ahmad, Neven & Pinar Tank (2021) Shari’a Law and Women’s Rights. GPS Centre Gender and Mediation Backgrounder. Oslo: PRIO. The study of Shari’a and Islamic teachings is a complex endeavour as it requires historical, theological and political …
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