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- Publications
- Influence
Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset
- N. P. Gleditsch, Peter Wallensteen, M. Eriksson, M. Sollenberg, H. Strand
- Engineering
- 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,… Expand
Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths
- Bethany Lacina, N. P. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 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… Expand
A Diamond Curse?
- P. Lujala, N. P. Gleditsch, E. Gilmore
- Economics
- 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,… Expand
Conflicts over shared rivers: Resource scarcity or fuzzy boundaries? *
- N. P. Gleditsch, K. Furlong, Håvard Hegre, Bethany Lacina, T. Owen
- Geography
- 1 May 2006
Abstract Countries that share rivers have a higher risk of military disputes, even when controlling for a range of standard variables from studies of interstate conflict. A study incorporating the… Expand
Whither the weather? Climate change and conflict
- N. P. Gleditsch
- Psychology
- 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… Expand
Conflict Diamonds: A New Dataset
- E. Gilmore, N. P. Gleditsch, P. Lujala, Jan Ketil Rod
- Political Science
- 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… Expand
Armed Conflict and The Environment: A Critique of the Literature
- N. P. Gleditsch
- Psychology
- 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… Expand
Is climate change a driver of armed conflict?
- O. M. Theisen, N. P. Gleditsch, H. Buhaug
- Political Science
- Climatic 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… Expand
Shared rivers and interstate conflict
- H. P. W. Toset, N. P. Gleditsch, Håvard Hegre
- Political Science
- 1 November 2000
Abstract “The previous war in the Middle East was about oil, the next war will be about water.” Such predictions have been made regularly, and particularly with reference to the possibility of… Expand
Climate change and conflict
- Ragnhild Nordås, N. P. Gleditsch
- Political Science
- 1 August 2007
Abstract The prospect of human-induced climate change encourages drastic neomalthusian scenarios. A number of claims about the conflict-inducing effects of climate change have surfaced in the public… Expand