Fighting over Oil: Introducing a New Dataset Export

@article{citeulike:1593216, abstract = {Recent research on armed civil conflict has suggested that oil-producing countries tend to experience conflict more often. However, this research relies on weak and incomplete measures of petroleum resources. To facilitate more rigorous research on the possible links between hydrocarbons and conflict, this paper presents and describes a new global dataset, PETRODATA. The dataset includes 890 onshore and 383 offshore locations with geographic coordinates and information on the first discovery and production year. PETRODATA allows researchers to control for both the spatial and temporal overlap of regions with hydrocarbon reserves and armed conflict. To illustrate the use of data, we conduct a duration analysis on the types of armed civil conflict. The results suggest that oil and gas located in conflict area lengthen governmental conflicts but have no effect on conflicts over territory.}, author = {Lujala}, citeulike-article-id = {1593216}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.svt.ntnu.no/iso/Paivi.Lujala/home/Papers/LujalaRodThieme%20PETRODATA%20200606.pdf}, comment = {Lujala, Rod, and Thieme presents a new dataset, PETRODATA, which enables researhcers to analyze at the country level as well as sub-national level. As an illustration of the use of data, they conduct a conflict duration analysis. They find that the presence of hydrocarbon reserves in conflict area lengthens the duration of governmental conflict but not territorial conflict. }, keywords = {gas, gates-strand2004, gleditsch2002, hydrocarbon, oil, petrodata, war-duration}, posted-at = {2007-08-26 00:26:10}, priority = {0}, title = {Fighting over Oil: Introducing a New Dataset}, url = {http://www.svt.ntnu.no/iso/Paivi.Lujala/home/Papers/LujalaRodThieme%20PETRODATA%20200606.pdf} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1593216 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1593216 N2 - Recent research on armed civil conflict has suggested that oil-producing countries tend to experience conflict more often. However, this research relies on weak and incomplete measures of petroleum resources. To facilitate more rigorous research on the possible links between hydrocarbons and conflict, this paper presents and describes a new global dataset, PETRODATA. The dataset includes 890 onshore and 383 offshore locations with geographic coordinates and information on the first discovery and production year. PETRODATA allows researchers to control for both the spatial and temporal overlap of regions with hydrocarbon reserves and armed conflict. To illustrate the use of data, we conduct a duration analysis on the types of armed civil conflict. The results suggest that oil and gas located in conflict area lengthen governmental conflicts but have no effect on conflicts over territory. TI - Fighting over Oil: Introducing a New Dataset KW - gas KW - gates-strand2004 KW - gleditsch2002 KW - hydrocarbon KW - oil KW - petrodata KW - war-duration N1 - Lujala, Rod, and Thieme presents a new dataset, PETRODATA, which enables researhcers to analyze at the country level as well as sub-national level. As an illustration of the use of data, they conduct a conflict duration analysis. They find that the presence of hydrocarbon reserves in conflict area lengthens the duration of governmental conflict but not territorial conflict. AU - Lujala UR - http://www.svt.ntnu.no/iso/Paivi.Lujala/home/Papers/LujalaRodThieme%20PETRODATA%20200606.pdf ER -