In data we trust? A comparison of UCDP GED and ACLED conflict events datasets

Cooperation and Conflict

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-141

  Eck, Kristine ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

armed conflict; civil war; conflict data; events data; geocoding; geographic study of war

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857932334     PISSN: 00108367     EISSN: 14603691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010836711434463     Document Type: Article

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