Commercial Military Actor Database_V1

This Commercial Military Actor Database (CMAD) is aimed at supporting research on civil war and commercial military actors. First, the CMAD covers all civil wars from 1980 to 2016 across all of the world’s regions except Europe, which enables the investigation of long-term regional and global trends. Second, the CMAD encompasses the corporate market segment and mercenary outfits, which facilitates the analysis of how those actors have impacted conflicts differently. Third, containing detailed information about the relationships behind exchanges, the CMAD allows users to disaggregate market exchanges. This is the first version of the Commercial Military Actor Dataset (2021), which was used for the Journal of Conflict Resolution publication.