Armed Conflicts, 1946--2008 Export

@article{citeulike:6081745, abstract = {In 2008, the number of active armed conflicts was 36, up by one from 2007. Over the past few years, the number of active conflicts has not seen any drastic changes from one year to the next. However, the number of armed conflicts has increased by nearly one-quarter since 2003, which was the year with the lowest number of active armed conflicts since the 1970s. While the number of conflicts continued to increase, the number of wars (i.e. conflicts with over 1,000 battle-related deaths) remained at a very low level, with only five recorded for 2008. Four conflicts listed in 2007 were no longer active in 2008, but during the year, two conflicts were restarted by previously recorded actors (in Burundi and in Georgia). Furthermore, three new conflicts erupted, one of which was fought between states (Djibouti--Eritrea). Thus, the record-long four-year interlude 2004--07 with no interstate conflict was broken. 10.1177/0022343309339112}, author = {Harbom, Lotta and Wallensteen, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {6081745}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343309339112}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/46/4/577.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/46/4/577.full.pdf}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0022343309339112}, journal = {Journal of Peace Research}, keywords = {civil\_war, data, peace, resource\_conflict}, month = {July}, number = {4}, pages = {577--587}, posted-at = {2009-11-07 03:27:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Armed Conflicts, 1946--2008}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343309339112}, volume = {46}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6081745 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6081745 N2 - In 2008, the number of active armed conflicts was 36, up by one from 2007. Over the past few years, the number of active conflicts has not seen any drastic changes from one year to the next. However, the number of armed conflicts has increased by nearly one-quarter since 2003, which was the year with the lowest number of active armed conflicts since the 1970s. While the number of conflicts continued to increase, the number of wars (i.e. conflicts with over 1,000 battle-related deaths) remained at a very low level, with only five recorded for 2008. Four conflicts listed in 2007 were no longer active in 2008, but during the year, two conflicts were restarted by previously recorded actors (in Burundi and in Georgia). Furthermore, three new conflicts erupted, one of which was fought between states (Djibouti--Eritrea). Thus, the record-long four-year interlude 2004--07 with no interstate conflict was broken. 10.1177/0022343309339112 IS - 4 JF - Journal of Peace Research EP - 587 TI - Armed Conflicts, 1946--2008 VL - 46 SP - 577 KW - civil_war KW - data KW - peace KW - resource_conflict AU - Harbom, Lotta AU - Wallensteen, Peter PY - 2009/07/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343309339112 ER -