Erik Melander

TL;DR: The rationale for the new UCDP GED is introduced, the basic coding procedures as well as the quality controls are explained, and an example of how the data can be used is provided, by illustrating the association between cities and organized violence, taking population density into account.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on trends in organized violence from data collected by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), with almost 90,000 deaths recorded by UCDP last year, 2017 saw a decrease for t...

TL;DR: In 2007, 34 armed conflicts were active worldwide, up by one from 2006 and by five from 2003, the year with the lowest number of active armed conflicts since the 1970s as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined to what extent gender equality is associated with lower levels of intrastate armed conflict and found that more equal societies, measured either in terms of female representation in parliament or the ratio of female-to-male higher education attainment, are associated with higher levels of intra-state armed conflict.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of political gender equality on personal integrity rights abuse is tested using multiple regression techniques and a dataset spanning most countries of the world during the period 1977-96.