Replication Data for: Who, what, and where? Linking violence to civil wars

Here you can find the dataset and code used to produce the analysis section of the paper "Who, what, and where? Linking violence to civil wars." To access the R package introduced in this paper, please consult the authors' GitHub page.

Abstract:
Civil wars are more than battles between governments and rebels; they involve a
multitude of actors who perpetrate different forms of violence linked to the war in
some way. However, scholars often study different types of violence perpetrated
in wars in isolation rather than in their interrelationship - a compartmentalization
that further widens the gap between research and practice. Despite the wide
availability of disaggregated data, linking various forms of violence to one another
and attributing them to a specific civil war remains a challenge. This article discusses
the violence attribution problem and introduces an approach that connects
di↵erent forms of war-related violence to specific civil wars using data on actors,
event locations, and conflict zones. In a practical application of this approach,
we introduce an R package that integrates battle and war-related violence data
collected by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. The overall aim is to provide a
more comprehensive measure of the violence taking place in a particular war and
facilitate a better understanding of the dynamics and interrelations of different
types of violence within civil wars.