{"id":1612,"date":"2014-05-12T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:31","slug":"social-political-and-economic-event-database-speed-project-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/05\/12\/social-political-and-economic-event-database-speed-project-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project Data."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00a0comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval. \u00a0Analysis has been made from a global news archive.\u00a0 Materials generally date from 1945 onwards.\u00a0 Event file data and visual representations can be downloaded.\u00a0 For example the\u00a0Google Earth File: 1979-2009 Sample Set\u00a0contains data of three types of civil unrest events for five countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Sierra Leone)\u00a0for the period between 1979-2008.<\/p>\n<p>Other useful sources of armed conflict data include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/first.sipri.org\/\">FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends<\/a>\u00a0 Excellent free database maintained by leading research bodies (including Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research). \u00a0Get chronologies of conflicts and security related events, country data, statistics on conflicts, military expenditure and reports on human rights and human security worldwide.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prio.org\/data\/armed-conflict\/\">CSCW and Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)<\/a>\u00a0at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, provide free access to some conflict data covering 1946 to the present day.\u00a0 It includes battlefield deaths, georeferenced conflict sites, data on civil war and intrastate conflict.<\/li>\n<li>For a longer scale picture the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.correlatesofwar.org\/\">Correlates of War Project<\/a>\u00a0provides free access to data from the 19th century onwards. \u00a0It includes intra- and extra-state conflict data, alliances and diplomatic exchanges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;\u00a0comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval. \u00a0Analysis has been made from a global news archive.\u00a0 Materials generally date from 1945 onwards.\u00a0 Event file data and visual representations can be downloaded.\u00a0 For example the\u00a0Google Earth File: 1979-2009 Sample Set\u00a0contains data of three types of civil unrest events for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,4,14],"tags":[151,152,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","category-disaster-and-emergency","category-security-and-risk","tag-armed-conflict","tag-civil-war","tag-conflict","tag-unrest","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}