Data can be located by issue number. The Kansas Event Data System uses automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data. These data are used in statistical early warning models to predict political change. Data sets can be downloaded. It covers the years 1816-1992 and provides information about conflicts in which one or more states threatens or uses force against one or more other states.
Data are in a zipped file.
The project is designed to provide information in standardized form that will contribute to the understanding and peaceful accommodation of conflicts involving communal groups. Selected project materials on 268 groups are available. National publications and statistical yearbooks, current statistics and Internet sites This site by the U.N. is a good source for international information and points to sites maintained by individual governments. Each site listed may include only tabluated data but may also include data available to download. Some of these files can be downloaded and some have on-line subsetting or statistical analysis capabilities.