CASCON Project: Local Conflict Data, 1945-1969

This study contains data on local conflicts for 52 nations in the period 1945-1969. The data are part of the database of the CASCON Project, an experimental information storage and retrieval system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to aid policy analysts in dealing with developing conflicts. Data are provided for approximately 500 factors affecting the course of each conflict, such as the situations, conditions, or relationships that tend to influence a conflict toward or away from violence. The factors are coded into three phases, the dispute, conflict, and hostilities phases. They are also grouped into several categories: previous or general relations between sides, great power involvement, general external relations, military and strategic, internal organizations, ethnic, economic, internal political pressures or situations, characteristics of one side, communication and information, and actions or controls in the disputed areas. For each conflict, the factor is further coded as either having no information available, not present, present but with no influence, with much, some, or little influence toward violence, or with much, some, or little influence away from violence.

本研究收录了1945年至1969年期间52个国家的局部冲突数据。这些数据属于CASCON项目数据库的一部分，该数据库是由麻省理工学院开发的一种实验性信息存储与检索系统，旨在协助政策分析师处理正在发生的冲突。数据涵盖了约500个影响每场冲突进程的因素，例如倾向于加剧或缓解冲突的局势、条件或关系。这些因素被编码为三个阶段：争议阶段、冲突阶段和敌对阶段。它们还被分为若干类别：各方之间的先前或一般关系、大国介入、一般外部关系、军事与战略、内部组织、民族、经济、内部政治压力或局势、一方特点、沟通与信息以及争议区域的行动或控制。对于每场冲突，因素进一步被编码为无信息可用、不存在、存在但无影响、有很大、有一定或很小的影响趋向暴力，或有很大、有一定或很小的影响远离暴力。