Documentation for civil war termination data

These data may be used for professional purposes as long as proper credit is given and copies of any papers or published products are sent to the author.  They may not be used for commercial purposes without written permission.

Roy Licklider
Political Science Department
Rutgers University
89 George street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1441 USA
732 932-9249
licklide@rci.rutgers.edu

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Versions Of The CWT Data

1.1  This version was printed in the appendix of Roy Licklider, "The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945-1993," American Political Science Review, 89 (September, 1995), pp. 681-690.  However, it was not used in the analysis of that article; a proofreading error on my part allowed this version to be printed without one case (Algeria B) which was included in the analysis. 

1.2 This version was used in the analysis of the APSR article cited above.

2.1 This version was prepared largely in response to invaluable suggestions by Barbara Walter.  Research was conducted to verify the cases by Rutgers graduate students Pierre Atlas and Ayse Ozkan, as well as myself, under a grant from the United States Institute of Peace.  As a result, eight cases were deleted, leaving a total of 83.  Full notes on cases deleted and changed codings can be found later in this file.  Although this work was done in 1997, no attempt was made to update the data past 1993.

These data will be revised in the future.  In general, please check with me before using them for any important purpose, to make sure you have the current version. 


VARIABLE                                          COLUMNS

CASE NAME (ALPHANUMERIC)                          1-16
SOURCE OF INFORMATION (ALPHANUMERIC)              18-25     
STARTING YEAR OF WAR (LAST TWO DIGITS)            27-28
ENDING YEAR OF WAR (LASTS TWO DIGITS)             30-31
LENGTH OF WAR IN YEARS                            33-34
TERMINATION MODE OF WAR                           36
     1 ONGOING; 2 MILITARY VICTORY; 3 NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT; 4  
ENDED LESS THAN FIVE YEARS, NOT CONSIDERED SETTLED YET
MEDIATION VARIABLES (SIGNIFICANCE LOST)           38-41
GOALS OF FIGHTERS                                 43
     1 REVOLUTION; 2 SEPARATION                   
GENOCIDE-POLITICIDE TYPE, BARBARA HARFF (1992)    45
     1 EPISODES WITH MIXED COMMUNAL AND POLITICAL VICTIMS; 2
     POLITICIDE AGAINST POLITICALLY ACTIVE COMMUNAL GROUPS; 3
     POLITICIDE, VICTIMS DEFINED POLITICALLY; 4 GENOCIDE, VICTIMS
     DEFINED COMMUNALLY; 5 TWO SEPARATE ACTIONS, BOTH POLITICIDE; 
   6 TWO SEPARATE ACTIONS, POLITICIDE AND  POLITICIDE AGAINST
     POLITICALLY ACTIVE COMMUNAL GROUPS
GENOCIDE-POLITICIDE (ANY TIME) BEFORE WAR         47
GENOCIDE-POLITICIDE (ANY KIND) DURING WAR         48
GENOCIDE-POLITICIDE (ANY KIND) AFTER WAR          49
     1 YES; 2 NONE REPORTED
TARGET POPULATION(S) OF GENOCIDE (ALPHANUMERIC)   51-65
LOW ESTIMATE OF GENOCIDE-POLITICIDE DEATHS 
     (IN THOUSANDS)                               67-70
HIGH ESTIMATE OF GENOCIDE-POLITICIDE DEATHS
     (IN THOUSANDS)                               72-75
ESTIMATED WAR DEATHS, LOG 10                      77-79
SOURCE OF WAR DEATH ESTIMATE                      84
     1 MIALL; 2 SIVARD 91; 3 SULLIVAN; 4 SIVARD 93; 9 OTHER
CIVIL WAR AFTER FIVE YEARS FROM SETTLEMENT        86
     0 ONGOING OR ENDED <5 YEARS; 1 NONE; 2 VIOLENCE, NO WAR; 3
     DIFFERENT WAR; 4 SAME WAR (SAME SIDES AND ISSUES)
ISSUE OF WAR                                      88
     1 IDENTITY; 2 NON-IDENTITY
RESULT OF WAR--ONE STATE OR MORE (PARTITION)      90
     1 ONE STATE; 2 MORE THAN 1 STATE; 9 ONGOING OR ENDED <5
     YEARS
YEARS OF PEACE BEFORE NEXT WAR (IF ANY)           92-93