Conflict and Cooperation Database
The DataLab complies a list of important public datasets covering the region of Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. These cover topics such as armed conflicts, violence, public opinion, protest events, party systems, political parties, environment, among others. In the database below, you can find links to the original sources and brief information about the data.
Name | Author | Description | Keywords | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creating Markets after Communism: Evidence from the Transition Economies | Diana Kostadinova | The data measures the progress a country makes with respect to price liberalization, privatization and institutional reform. | Economy, Central-Eastern Europe, Privatization, Reforms | 1975-2005 |
| The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) | Dara Kay Cohen and Ragnhild Nordås | SVAC measures reports of the conflict-related sexual violence committed by armed actors during the years 1989-2021. | Global, Violence, Armed Conflict | 1989-2021 |
| Central and Eastern Eurobarometer | Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften | CEE monitored the economic and political transition as well as attitudes towards Europe and the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe. | Survey, Public opinion, Central-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe | 1990-1997 |
| Chinese Investment in Central and Eastern Europe Data Set | Tamás Matura et al. | Data on the amount and nature of Chinese investment in Central-Eastern Europe. | Economy, Investments, FDI, China, Central-Eastern Europe | 1994-2021 |
| Database on sub-national results of national elections in post-communist democracies | Daniel Bochsler | The dataset covers electoral results of national parliamentary elections (first chamber) at the sub-national level from post-communist democracies in Europe. | Elections, Party System, Eastern Europe | 1990-2010 |
| Eastern Europe forset cover dynamics 1985 to 2012 | Petar Potapov et al. | The dataset provides quantification of forest cover dynamic within Eastern Europe. | Environment, Forest, Eastern Europe | 1985-2012 |
| EPAC expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition | Edina Szöcsik and Christina Isabel Zuber | Expert survey on ethnonationalism in party competition in European democracies. | Ethnonationalism, Survey, Europe | 2011-2017 |
| Ethnic, Linguistic, and Religious Fractionalization Data | Tanja Ellingsen | Dataset on ethnic fragmentation in the world. | Language, Nations, Religion, Global | 1945-1994 |
| European Social Survey | European Social Survey | Cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since 2001. | Survey, Public Opinion, Europe | 2001- |
| European Values Study | European Values Study | Large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values. | Survey, Public Opinion, Europe | 1981- |
| World Value Survey | World Value Survey | Research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. | Survey, Public Opinion, Global | 1981- |
| GDELT Event Database | GDELT | GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages. | Big Data, Events, Global | 1979- |
| Global Nonviolent Action Database | Global Nonviolent Action Database | Information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action since 12 BC. | Events, Protest, Nonviolent Action, Global | |
| Global Protest Tracker | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Dataset following crucial trends in the most significant antigovernment protests worldwide since 2017. | Protest, Events, Global | 2017- |
| Lankina Russian protest event dataset | Tomila Lankina | Russian protest dataset, collected from namarsh.ru. | Protest, Russia | 2006-2017 |
| The Boundary Dataset | Kathryn Furlong & Nils Petter Gleditsch | Dataset contains measurements of all international boundary lengths. | Borders, Global | 1815-1997 |
| Religious Cleavages Dataset | UCDP/PRIO | This dataset builds on and extends the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Database. | Armed Conflicts, Religion, Global | 1946-2004 |
| Location of Armed Conflict Onset Dataset (LACOD) | Halvard Buhaug et al. | Provides information about where within a country internal armed conflicts erupt. | Armed Conflicts, Global | 1946-2008 |
| Conflict Site Dataset | Johan Dittrich Hallberg | Provides coordinates for the conflict zones and lists of countries in which the conflicts were located. | Armed Conflicts, Global | 1946-2008 |
| Post-Conflict Justice (PCJ) Dataset | Helga Malmin Binningsbø et al. | The post-conflict justice (PCJ) efforts included are: trials, truth commissions, reparations, amnesties, purges, and exiles | Justice, Armed Conflicts, Global | 1946-2006 |
| Shared River Basin Dataset | Marit Brochmann & Nils Petter Gleditsch | Records information about all river-sharing pairs of states. | Environment, Global | 1816-2007 |
| Expanded Trade, GDP, and Population Data | Kristian Gleditsch | Provide historical estimates of trade flows, GDP, and population of independent states. | Economy, Trade, Global | 1948-2011 |
| Urban Social Disorder (USD) Dataset | Karim Bahgat et al. | Information on urban 'social disorder' events occurring in capitals and other major cities. | Urban, Revolts, Events, Central Asia | 1960-2014 |
| Small Arms Trade Database | Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT) | It contains 1 389 355 records detailing transfers between some 250 states and territories. | Arms, Conflicts, Global | 1962-2015 |
| Manifesto Project Main Dataset | Manifesto Project | Election programmes of all parties that have won one or two seats in the respective national elections. | Elections, Political Parties, Global | 1945- |
| Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database | Nils B. Weidmann and Espen Geelmuyden Rød | Political protest in autocracies. | Protest, Autocracies, Global | 2003-2019 |
| Mass Mobilization Protest Data | David Clark and Patrick Regan | Reports protests against governments. | Protest, Mobilizations, Global | 1990-2020 |
| Migration Dataset | Migration Data Portal | Migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally. | Migration, Global | 1990-2020 |
| The Open Data Barometer | Open Data Barometer | Measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. | Global, Open Data, Accountability | |
| PETRODATA | Lujala, Päivi; Jan Ketil Rød & Nadia Thieme | Information on all known oil and gas deposits throughout the world. | Global, Economy, Trade, Oil, Gas | 1946-2009 |
| Pew Research Center surveys for Eastern Europe | Pew Research Center | Public opinion | Survey, Public Opinion, Eastern Europe | |
| Protest And Coercion Data | Ron Francisco | Contains daily and sub-daily coded data on protest and coercion. | Protest, Violence, Global | 1980-1995 |
| Protest Event Dataset for Croatia, Portugal, Serbia and Spain | Danijela Dolenec et al. | Reports protest events in four countries. | Protest, Balkans | 2000-2018 |
| Social Stratification in Eastern Europe After 1989: General Population Survey | Ivan Szelenyi and Donald J. Treiman | Surveys about social stratification in Eastern Europe. | Society, Stratification, Survey, Economy, Eastern Europe | 1993-1994 |
| The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) | Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project | Reports information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events around the world. | Protest, Violence, Events, Conflicts, Global | 2016- |
| The Central and East European Population since 1850 | Franz Rothenbacher | Annual time series and cross sectional data on population structure and other demographic characteristics. | Demography, Society, Central-Eastern Europe | 1850-2005 |
| Observatory for Political Conflict and Democracy (PolDem) | Hanspeter Kriesi et al. | Collects data on protest events, election campaigns and others. | Protest, Election, Europe | 2000-2017 |
| Ukrainian Protest and Coercion Data | Volodymyr Ishchenko | Collected and coded all protest events in Ukraine between 2009-2016. | Protest, Ukraine, Eastern Europe | 2009-2016 |
| Protest actions in Belarus | Areti Demosthenous | Reports protest actions in Belarus from 01 January 1997 until 31 December 2020. | Protest, Belarus | 1997-2020 |
| Protest Event Database Kazakhstan | Heiko Pleines | Reports public protest actions in Kazakhstan. | Protest, Kazakhstan | 2010-2019 |
| CRRC datasets | The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) | Cross-country and time-series survey data on Caucasus. | Survey, Public Opinion, Caucasus | 2008- |
| The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer | Crisis Group | Interactive map to track the geography of casualties along the front lines and deeper inside the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. | Armed Conflict, Nagorno-Karabakh, Caucasus | 2020-2023 |
| UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset | Shawn Davies et al. | Reports individual events of organized violence. | Violence, Armed Conflicts, Global | 1989-2021 |
| UCDP Candidate Events Dataset | Håvard Hegre et al. | Based on Georeferenced Event Dataset (UCDP GED), but published at a monthly release cycle. | Violence, Armed Conflicts, Global | 1989-2021 |
| Aggregate Data Set Eastern Europe | Arno Tausch | Aggregate indicators at the level of the country for 7 countries of the East Bloc from the areas of economy, defense, population and society. | Economy, Defense, Central-Eastern Europe | 1970-1978 |
| Direction of Trade Statistics | International Monetary Fund | Reports value of exports and imports. | Economy, Trade, Global | 1960- |
| ILOSTAT | International Labor Organization | Labor statistics, including union density, collective bargaining etc. | Society, Economy, Trade Unions, Global | |
| Labor and working conditions data | Eurofound | Labor statistics, including working conditions surveys. | Society, Work, Economy, Europe | 2003- |
| RIKS platform | United Nations University | A web-based information and learning platform on regional integration processes worldwide. | Global, Cooperation, Integration | |
| ELWar Expert Survey Trend File | Lesschaeve, Christophe; Glaurdić, Josip; Mochtak, Michal | Еxpert surveys on parties’ political ideology, policy positions, and behavior in six countries in South-East Europe. | Politics, Elite, Southeast Europe, Survey | 2018-2020 |
| 2021 ELWar COVID-19 Public Opinion Survey | Lesschaeve, Christophe; Glaurdić, Josip; Mochtak, Michal | 2021 public opinion survey conducted in six Southeast European countries. | Covid-19, Public Opinion, Survey, Southeast Europe | 2021 |
| 2020 ELWar COVID-19 Public Opinion Survey | Lesschaeve, Christophe; Glaurdić, Josip; Mochtak, Michal | 2020 public opinion survey conducted in six Southeast European countries. | Covid-19, Public Opinion, Survey, Southeast Europe | 2020 |
| 2020 ELWar Croatian and Serbian Election Survey | Lesschaeve, Christophe; Glaurdić, Josip; Mochtak, Michal | Party preferences of respondents in the 2020 elections in Serbia and Croatia. | Public Opinion, Southeast Europe, Politics | 2020 |
| 2018 ELWar Public Opinion Survey | Lesschaeve, Christophe; Glaurdić, Josip; Mochtak, Michal | 2018 public opinion survey conducted in six Southeast European countries. | Public Opinion, Southeast Europe, Politics | 2018 |
| SRBCorp: Corpus of Parliamentary Debates in Serbia | Mochtak, Michal; Glaurdić, Josip; Lesschaeve, Christophe | Corpus of parliamentary debates from the National Assembly of Serbia. | Politics, Political Parties, Southeast Europe | 1997-2020 |
| CROCorp: Corpus of Parliamentary Debates in Croatia | Mochtak, Michal; Glaurdić, Josip; Lesschaeve, Christophe | Corpus of parliamentary debates from the Croatian Parliament. | Politics, Political Parties, Southeast Europe | 2003-2020 |
| BiHCorp: Corpus of Parliamentary Debates in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Mochtak, Michal; Glaurdić, Josip; Lesschaeve, Christophe; Muharemović, Ensar | Corpus of parliamentary debates from the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | Politics, Political Parties, Southeast Europe | 1998-2018 |
| Spatial Data of Municipalities in Yugoslavia and Its Successor States, 1970-2020 | Glaurdić, Josip | Set of vector maps of the territory of SFR Yugoslavia with the administrative division into municipalities. | Political Geography, Southeast Europe | 1970-1991 |