civil war variable

 Civil war variable using

1)      Dataset

 

civil wars as violent conflicts that resulted in at least 1,000 battle-related deaths per annum.

 

CoW defines a militarized incident as “a single military action involving an explicit threat, display, or use of force by one system member state towards another system member state.”

1)      one of the primary actors in any conflict identified as a civil war must be the national government in power at the time hostilities begin.

2)      the concept of war requires that both sides have the ability to inflict death upon each other. This rule enables them to distinguish genuine war situations from massacres, pogroms, and purges.

3)      significant military action must take place. Only civil wars that resulted in at least 1,000 battle related deaths per year are included in the data set. This figure includes civilian as well as military deaths. 民眾傷亡也被計算在內

4)      the war must be internal to the country. 戰爭一定要發生在國家疆界之內

 

 

reference:

Singer, J.D. and Small, M. (1994). Correlates of War Project: International and Civil War Data, 1816-1992, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI.

2) MID data

MID data

• 1) Search from news archive:
• international conflict in Lexis-Nexis (now Nexis Uni) and Factiva
• 2) They trained a supervised learning classifier to classify news document. This classifier is trained using MID4 project. 
• 3) human coders reviewed each of the potentially relevant articles and used them to code militarized interstate incidents (MIIs). 
• 4) the MIIs were aggregated into larger militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) using the process established in the MID3 project.

3) Dataset: UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset Codebook Version 21.1

UCDP defines state-based armed conflict as: “a contested incompatibility that concerns government and/or territory where the use of armed force between two parties, of which at least one is the government of a state, results in at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar year.”

換言之，這裡並非僅包括內戰

State:

1)      國際認可的主權政府、掌握一個特定的領土

2)      國際並未認可的政府，但該政府控制特定的領土(其領土主權並未被另外一個之前統治該領土且國際認可的主權國家提出爭議)

A state is an internationally recognised sovereign government controlling a specific territory or an internationally unrecognised government controlling a specified territory whose sovereignty is not disputed by another internationally recognized sovereign government previously controlling the same territory

p.s. The MID war project in COW is the most hideous dataset I have ever seen. To be clear, there is definitely a worse dataset than the MID dataset, yet, this widely used dataset is not presenting a great data-cleaning version shocks me.