Building and using datasets on armed conflicts
By: edited by Mayeul Kauffmann.
Contributors: Kauffmann, Mayeul.; North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.
Series: NATO science for peace and security series -- v. 36
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781586038472
Subjects: Databases -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division."

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Indicators and Databases for Risk Prevention, Grenoble, France, 21-23 June 2007."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The creation and use of data : scientific requirements and political utility / Wolf-Dieter Eberwein; title: An overview and typology of conflict data : the advantages of data diversity / Kristine Eck; title: Databases on defense for influencing state policies / Jean-Marie Collin; title: Calling a conflict a conflict : violence and other aspects of war / Joakim Kreutz; title: Databases on terrorism : constructing a database on hostage-barricade terrorism and abductions / Galit M. Ben-Israel; title: Reviewing CIDCM databases : modeling and indicator development in risk assessments and early warnings / Lyubov Mincheva; title: Indexes for measures of conflict and cooperation / Ranan D. Kuperman; title: Enhancing openness and reliability in conflict dataset creation / Mayeul Kauffmann; title: Merging and meshing data : difficulties, lessons, and suggestions / D. Scott Bennett; title: The ACLED data project : purpose and methods / Clionadh Raleigh and Joachim Carlsen; title: Visualization of conflict networks / Ulrik Brandes and Jürgen Lerner.