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Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset
- N. P. Gleditsch, P. Wallensteen, M. Eriksson, M. Sollenberg, H̊avard Strand
- Political Science
- 1 September 2002
In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of or part of 2001. Armed conflict remains a serious problem in the post-Cold War period. For three decades,…
Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths
- Bethany Lacina, N. P. Gleditsch
- History
- 1 June 2005
Both academic publications and public media often make inappropriate use of incommensurate conflict statistics, creating misleading impressions about patterns in global warfare. This article…
A Diamond Curse?
- P. Lujala, N. P. Gleditsch, E. Gilmore
- Geology
- 1 August 2005
While territory, oil, and water are frequently mentioned as resources likely to promote interstate conflict, diamonds have emerged as a prominent factor in explanations of civil war. In this article,…
Conflicts over shared rivers: Resource scarcity or fuzzy boundaries? *
- N. P. Gleditsch, K. Furlong, H. Hegre, Bethany Lacina, Taylor Owen
- Economics
- 1 May 2006
Whither the weather? Climate change and conflict
- N. P. Gleditsch
- Environmental Science
- 1 January 2012
Until recently, most writings on the relationship between climate change and security were highly speculative. The IPCC assessment reports to date offer little if any guidance on this issue and…
Armed Conflict and The Environment: A Critique of the Literature
- N. P. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 1 May 1998
Conflict over scarce resources, such as minerals, fish, water, and particularly territory, is a traditional source of armed struggle. Recently, wideranging claims have been made to the effect that…
Conflict Diamonds: A New Dataset
- E. Gilmore, N. P. Gleditsch, P. Lujala, Jan Ketil Rod
- Geology
- 1 July 2005
Natural resources, and diamonds especially, are commonly believed to play a significant role in the onset and duration of armed civil conflict. Although there is ample case study evidence that…
Shared rivers and conflict – A reconsideration
- Marit Brochmann, N. P. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 1 November 2012
Is climate change a driver of armed conflict?
- O. M. Theisen, N. P. Gleditsch, H. Buhaug
- Political ScienceClimatic Change
- 3 January 2013
The world is generally becoming less violent, but the debate on climate change raises the specter of a new source of instability and conflict. In this field, the policy debate is running well ahead…
Shared rivers and interstate conflict
- H. P. W. Toset, N. P. Gleditsch, H. Hegre
- Economics
- 1 November 2000
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