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| Spatial Conflict Analysis× | UCDP Conflict Data Analysis× | |
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| Field | International Relations | International Relations |
| Family≠ | Regression model | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 2002 | 2013 |
| Originator≠ | Spatial-analysis-of-conflict literature (e.g., Michael Ward & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch) | Uppsala Conflict Data Program (Ralph Sundberg & Erik Melander for UCDP-GED) |
| Type≠ | Spatial regression / spatial-statistical modeling of conflict | Coding and analysis of organized-violence events and conflicts |
| Seminal source≠ | Ward, M. D., & Gleditsch, K. S. (2002). Location, location, location: An MCMC approach to modeling the spatial context of war and peace. Political Analysis, 10(3), 244–260. DOI ↗ | Sundberg, R., & Melander, E. (2013). Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset. Journal of Peace Research, 50(4), 523–532. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Spatial Analysis of War and Peace, Geographic Conflict Modeling, Spatial Econometrics of Conflict, Georeferenced Conflict Analysis | UCDP Analysis, UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset Analysis, Uppsala Conflict Data Analysis, Organized Violence Event Analysis |
| Related | 3 | 3 |
| Summary≠ | Spatial conflict analysis models armed conflict while taking geography seriously: conflict is not randomly scattered but clusters in space, and a place's risk depends on its neighbors. Building on georeferenced data and spatial-statistical methods — as in Ward and Gleditsch's (2002) MCMC approach to the spatial context of war and peace — it uses spatial weights, tests for spatial autocorrelation, and fits spatial regression models so that conflict, peace, and their predictors are analyzed as interdependent across locations rather than as isolated observations. | UCDP conflict data analysis is the coding and quantitative study of organized violence using the datasets of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. UCDP distinguishes three categories of organized violence — state-based armed conflict, non-state conflict, and one-sided violence against civilians — and codes them from the level of individual fatal events up to annual conflict dyads. The Georeferenced Event Dataset (UCDP-GED), introduced by Sundberg and Melander (2013), pins each event to a place and date, enabling fine-grained spatial and temporal analysis of where and when violence occurs. |
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