📢 Out Now! DEMSCORE v6 Demscore v6 update includes the new @ucdp.bsky.social annual release, updated @repdem-org.bsky.social Basic datasets, @viewsforecasting.org monthly updates until August 2025, + a new thematic dataset on Laws and Liberties. #SocialScienceData #PoliticalScienceData #Polisky 1(5)

Coming very soon! DEMSCORE v6 offers new updates from UCDP, REPDEM, and VIEWS, and a new thematic dataset. @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org ‬‬ @repdem-org.bsky.social #polisky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #SocialScience #SocialScienceData 1(3)

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation from @sidasweden.bsky.social‬, which manages Sweden's foreign aid. Thank you for this opportunity to hear about your impactful work around the globe, and discuss how our research and data could further support these efforts!

Israeli military's own data shows 83% of deaths in Gaza were civilians. UCDP's Therese Pettersson calls the ratio "unusually high", comparable to Rwanda 1994 and Mariupol 2022. This article highlights immense civilian suffering and raises questions about the reliability of wartime casualty data.

🏆We are happy to announce that #DEMSCORE has received the 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 & 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 Award, in the framework of Acquisition International’s Non-Profit Organisation Award 2025🎉 #SocialScienceData #SocialScience #PolDataSky #PoliSkyData #PoliSciSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky 1(3)

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

📊 The two most used sources of conflict data are @ucdp.bsky.social and ACLED. A recent article examines which factors drive the differences observed in these two datasets. 🔗 Open access article in Research & Politics by Magnus Öberg and Mert Can Yilmaz: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A new article by UCDP's Magnus Öberg and Mert Can Yilmaz in Research & Politics reveals that differences between major conflict datasets aren't driven by sourcing strategies or inclusion thresholds as previously claimed (1/3) Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Presenterade den dystra omvärldsutvecklingen, de ökande konfliktnivåerna med data från Uppsala konfliktdataprogram @ucdp.bsky.social , och diskuterade framtidsutsikter med @erikmelander.bsky.social i Almedalen. #Almedalen

Want to know more about conflict deaths across the world? @ourworldindata.org has now updated their visuals with the latest data from UCDP. ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

The war in Gaza features one of the highest civilian-to-combatant death ratios of any modern conflict. UCDP's Mert Can Yilmaz elaborates on this in Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) www.dn.se/varlden/sven...

Since 2010, the number of conflicts involving states has almost doubled, and the total number of deaths has increased five-fold. Read more about the new UCDP data in this @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social open access article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎙️ UCDP Research coordinator Therese Petterson discusses the @ucdp.bsky.social newly released data for the year 2024 in the latest episode of Researching Peace. She also walks us through how the team ensures the quality of the datasets. 🎧Listen: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9jgwa...

What does the latest data say about global conflict trends? UCDP’s Therese Pettersson joined the launch of the @PRIOresearch Conflict Trends Report, presenting the most recent findings from UCDP that underpin the report. Watch the event here: youtu.be/kJjY8xRXK_k Photo: Kia Michaelsen

The full analysis by Shawn Davies, Therése Pettersson, Margareta Sollenberg and @magnusoberg.bsky.social (all @uupeace.bsky.social) is open access in Journal of Peace Research – read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New UCDP data release! In the 2024 update from the @ucdp.bsky.social, organised violence remained alarmingly high, with 61 state-based conflicts and nearly 160,000 recorded fatalities.

New data from UCDP shows the highest number of active conflicts ever recorded, press release found here: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Right now at the #DemscoreConference: Final panel - How to deal with uncertainty in #conflict data collection and forecasting? @uupeace.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org‬‬‬ @uupeace.bsky.social ‬ #SocialScience #Polisky #PoliSciSky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky 🧵1(3)

Ready to welcome you to the Demscore Conference 2025! Check out the program at www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #Polisky #SocialScienceData #PolDataSky #PoliSciSky @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @ucdp.bsky.social @repdem-org.bsky.social @viewsforecasting.org

We look forward to paper presentations on topics such as “Perception of Corruption Among Local Decision Makers,” “Civil Conflict and Malaria Infection,” “Ethnicity and Public Opinion in Autocracies,” and “Voter Reactions to Coalition Agreements.” @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social 2(4)

Yesterday, we celebrated the @ucdp.bsky.social upcoming annual data release, scheduled for 11 June. For the 2024 datasets the team coded 37 000 events using 60 000 sources to continue providing the best possible conflict data. An amazing effort by the UCDP team!

DEMSCORE version 5.0 includes additional datasets from UCDP: The Cities and Armed Conflict Events (CACE), Deadly Electoral Conflict dataset (DECO), and the Ethnic One-Sided Violence (EOSV) Dataset. Explore at www.demscore.se/data/ @ucdp.bsky.social #Polisky #PoliSciData #SocialScienceData 🧵1(4)

📢 #DEMSCORE v5 is out tomorrow, March 28! The update includes the annual updates from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social & @qoginstitute.bsky.social. #REPDEM Basic dataset has been expanded with countries outside Europe and new, additional datasets from #COMPLAB, @ucdp.bsky.social and #HDATA. #polisky 1(2)

In their latest paper, @realmps.bsky.social and @corinnebara.bsky.social dive into the connections between different forms of war-related UCDP violence and specific civil wars. A valuable read for anyone looking to understand how various forms of violence intersect and impact conflict dynamics.

📢 Data Update: Demscore v5.0 will be available March 28! Free access to harmonized data on #Democracy #Environment #Migration #SocialPolicy #Conflict #Representation @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social #Polisky #SocialScienceData

If you are at #ISA2025, come visit the UCDP in booth #109 in the exhibit hall for a chat on conflict data and some Swedish chocolate.

Shawn Davies, a senior analyst at @ucdp.bsky.social was interviewed by Swedish radio P4. Shawn's work focuses on the war between Ukraine and Russia. Listen to his take on the current state of the conflict. 👇 www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/tre-...

⏰One month left to submit panel proposals and paper abstracts for the DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆 Abstract and Proposal Submission Deadline: March 16, 2025 www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #PoliSky @ucdp.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social

UCDP's Therese Pettersson talks conflict trends & the emotional toll of researching violence on Finnish Radio Yle Vega. (In Swedish) arenan.yle.fi/poddar/1-736...

UCDP Candidate Events Data are now available for the full year 2024 at ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ This map shows lethal events of organized violence at the PRIO-GRID level (download pdf for better resolution) tinyurl.com/2yrz97va

📢Call for Papers DEMSCORE Conference 2025 We invite submissions for research papers, panels, and workshop proposals for the #DEMSCORE Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📆Abstract Submission Deadline: March 16 See www.demscore.se/events/demsc... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky #SocialScience ⬇️

The debate around the Swedish prime minister’s statement that Sweden currently is neither in a state of #war nor a state of #peace, highlights the importance of #definitions, such as the ones by @ucdp.bsky.social. UCDP project leader Therese Pettersson comments in ETC. 👉 www.etc.se/inrikes/kris...

What do the UCDP and Taylor Swift have in common? Australian ABC summarizes 2024 as the year that shook the world: www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

📅 Save the Dates: #Demscore Conference 2025, June 9-10 in Gothenburg. 📢 Call for Papers and Panels open now, learn more at www.demscore.se/events/demsc... @ucdp.bsky.social @vdeminstitute.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org @sampol.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social

Glad Lucia! 🕯️ Happy Saint Lucy's Day! Yesterday, our first-year master's students received a mid-lecture Lucia procession. In accordance with department tradition, members of our staff surprised the students with song, goodies and cheer! 🍬

Do you want to work with world-class conflict researchers in a supportive environment? Come be my new colleague! @uupeace.bsky.social is hiring a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Senior Lecturer. More info here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... and here ➡️ www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Conflictsky

UCDP Project Leader Therese Pettersson discusses opportunities and challenges on the road towards a more peaceful society in Syria in an interview with Syre. 👇

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program @ucdp.bsky.social is the world’s most used data provider on organized violence. Since its inception over 40 years ago, UCDP has been an integral part our department. In a recent interview, UCDP Project Leader Therese Pettersson discusses how the data is gathered. 👇

💡 Data #Hack: Using #Demscore to Combine External Data Our latest blog post shows a useful Demscore-hack, illustrating how Demscore can minimize the usual hassle that comes with combining data from different sources 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬. Read at www.demscore.se/news/using-d...

Our podcast Researching Peace is back! In the first episode of the season, we welcome David Randahl and Hanne Fjelde to discuss their team's new model, which predicts electoral violence. Spotify 👉 open.spotify.com/show/7xlFu19... Apple Podcasts 👉 podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/r...

New in #Demscore v4: The Demscore e-infrastructure has been expanded with new datasets from UCDP and MIGPOL. #UCDP Peacemakers at Risk Risk (PAR) Dataset #MIGPOL Historical Immigration Policies (HIP) Explore the new data at www.demscore.se @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social

DEMSCORE v4.0 is now available! Explore new data and features on our website, including two new thematic datasets on Corruption, and Security & Violence. More details coming soon. www.demscore.se @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org

🔦Spotlight on Demscore Modules: UCDP/VIEWS 🔦 UCDP, @ucdp.bsky.social, is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and is the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war. VIEWS is an ambitious early-warning system at the frontier of research on conflict forecasting. 🧵1(7) 👇

Read more about the data sources provided by UCDP and VIEWS, and how they are prepared and included in #Demscore at www.demscore.se/partners/ucd... Download the UCDP and VIEWS static datasets: www.demscore.se/data/static-... UCDP @ucdp.bsky.social and VIEWS are hosted at Uppsala University. 7(7)

#Demscore Thematic Datasets make top-quality social science data easily accessible for researchers and policymakers, you don’t have to spend time merging variables. What thematic dataset would you like to see? Talk to us at #APSA2024 this week, at Booth 510! @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social

You can now watch the #Almedalen presentation on "Democracy Trends in the World in the Super Election Year 2024" by @ucdp.bsky.social's @magnusoberg.bsky.social , and #vdeminstitute + #Demscore's Lisa Gastaldi online (only in Swedish). live.mediaflow.com/47CBB0JV1F

Record numbers of people are voting in elections in 2024, yet democracy is losing ground, even in some well-established democracies. What are the prospects for the future? Don't miss @ucdp.bsky.social's Magnus Öberg, and #VDemInstitute + #Demscore 's Lisa Gastaldi in Almedalen next week.

Demscore Best Master Thesis Award 2024 goes to Alexa Timlick for “The Double-Edged Sword of Development Aid: Unanticipated Deviations and Conflict Onset”, investigating the intersection of aid volatility and conflict onset, utilizing data from UCDP and the V-Dem datasets. Congrats! @ucdp.bsky.social

Today marks the 1st anniversary of Demscore, as version 1.0 was released on June 12, 2023. Ahead of the Demscore Conference 2024, starting tomorrow, we celebrate the growth from version 1.0 to 3.1 🎉 Dataset download at www.demscore.se/data/ @ucdp.bsky.social

Explore conflict deaths and death rates across the world with Our World in Data's Conflict Data Explorer. All UCDP data can be downloaded, free of charge, at ucdp.uu.se/downloads/