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Press Release: Private Sector Can Grow Despite Violent Conflict, Princeton Study Shows
Engaging Overseas: Lessons for Afghanistan and Beyond
Private Sector Development in Conflict Affected States: A Report to the UK Department for International Development
Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence
Technical Appendix to “Introduction: Principals, Agents, and Indirect Foreign Policies”
Do Museums Promote Reconciliation? A Field Experiment on Transitional Justice
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Aid as a Tool against Insurgency: Evidence from Contested and Controlled Territory in Afghanistan
China is fueling a new ‘resource curse’ — and riots around the world
A New Resource Curse: How Externalities and Governance Shape Social Conflict
Hard Traveling: Commuting Costs and Urban Unemployment with Deficient Labor Demand
Displaced Loyalties: The Effects of Indiscriminate Violence on Attitudes Among Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India
Indian State Counterinsurgency Policies: Brief Historical Summaries
Understanding Risk and Resilience to Violent Conflicts
Afghanistan Stabilization Program: A Summary of Research and Key Outcome Trends
Aid and Stabilization in Afghanistan: What do the Data Say?
The Flawed Logic of Trump's Executive Order: How Not to Fight Terrorism
The Wrong Way to Stop Terrorism: What the Data Show About Attacks and Immigration
Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970)
Expanding Governance as Development: Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines
How We Can Kill Terrorism With Kindness
Violent Order: Understanding Rebel Governance Through Liberia's Civil War
Concession Stands: How Foreign Investment Incites Protest in Africa
Warfare, political identities, and displacement in Spain and Colombia
Organized Violence After Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America
Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict
Understanding the Daesh Economy
Communication networks and the transnational spread of ethnic conflict
The Problem With Vows to 'Defeat' the Islamic State: What happens after Raqqa falls?
Export Crops and Civil Conflict
Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India
Does Counterinsurgent Success Match Social Support? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Colombia
Reading Between the Lines: Prediction of Political Violence Using Newspaper Text
Foundations of the Islamic State: Management, Money, and Terror in Iraq, 2005–2010
Explaining Recidivism of Ex-combatants in Colombia
America Can’t Do Much About ISIS
The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War
Negotiating with Rebels: The Effect of Rebel Service Provision on Conflict Negotiations
Improving Electoral Integrity with Information and Communications Technology.
Islamic State's New Strategy Is Suicidal
Here’s why we can only contain the Islamic State, not bomb it back to the Stone Age
Community counts: The social reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia
Employment Status and Support for Wartime Violence: Evidence from the Iraq War
Why Armies Break: Explaining Mass Desertion in Conventional War
Bombing to Lose? Airpower and the Dynamics of Violence in Counterinsurgency Wars
Can Civilian Attitudes Predict Civil War Violence?
From cell phones to conflict? Reflections on the emerging ICT–political conflict research agenda
Coethnic Bias and Wartime Informing
Process Tracing, Causal Inference, and Civil War
The Effect of State Killing of Civilians on Anti-State Violence: A Case Study of Syria
Another Step Toward Peace in Colombia
Electoral Timing and Security Policy
Does Electoral Proximity Affect Security Policy?
High resolution population estimates from telecommunications data
Peace is Coming to Colombia
Turning the lights off on the Islamic State
America's Disappearing War Data
The Counterinsurgency Debate
How to make surveys in war zones better, and why this is important
Want to defeat ISIS in Iraq? More electricity would help
The Effects of Temperature on Political Violence: Global Evidence at the Subnational Level
Does lineage matter? A study of ancestral influence on educational attainment in Korea
Governance Delegation Agreements: Shared Sovereignty as a Substitute for Limited Statehood
Hitting ISIS Where It Hurts: Disrupt ISIS’s Cash Flow in Iraq
Communication, Technology and Political Conflict: Introduction to the Special Issue
Votes and violence: Pursuing terrorism while navigating politics
The Empiricist's Insurgency
How empirical studies of political violence (can) help policymakers
B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents
Unequal We Fight: Between- and Within-Group Inequality and Ethnic Civil War
Micodata Catalogue of the Data Center by the Universidad de Los Andes
Aid for Peace: Does Money Buy Hearts and Minds?
Harmony Program
The Terrorist Bureaucracy: Inside the Files of the Islamic State in Iraq
Managing a Transnational Insurgency: The Islamic State of Iraqʹs “Paper Trail,” 2005‐2010
Dangerously Informed: Protestant Missions, Information, and Pre-Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Colombia Calls a Draw in the War on Drugs
An Empirical Validation Study of Popular Survey Methodologies for Sensitive Questions
Railroads in Mexico
Mexican Highways
The Beheading of Criminal Organizations and the Dynamics of Violence in Mexico
Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations: Source and Scope of the Violence
Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement, and Local Public Goods: Evidence from Mexico
Homicides (2006 – 2011)
Homicides (2006-2011)
Homicides presumably related to DTO rivalry (Dec 2006 – Sep 2011)
Homicides presumably related to DTO rivalry (Dec 2006 – Sep 2011)
National Survey on Victimization and Perception of Public Security
Administrative Boundaries: 2456 Municipalities
Administrative Boundaries: 31 States and one Federal District
Crime Statistics: State Governments (2001-2014)
National Survey Census of Government: State Governments
National Survey Census of Government: Municipal Governments
Census Data
Socioeconomic Marginalization Index
Grupo de Memoria Histórica (GMH) Basta Ya Datasets on Violence in Colombia
Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia
Tribal heterogeneity and the allocation of publicly provided goods: Evidence from Yemen
Violence “from above” or “from below”? The Role of Ethnicity in Bosnia’s Civil War
The Dark Side of Power-Sharing: Middle Managers and Civil War Recurrence
Pooling Risk Among Countries
Living in Fear: Mapping the Social Embeddedness of Drug Gangs and Violence in Mexico
Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison
Correspondence: Assessing the Synergy Thesis
Comparing and Combining List and Endorsement Experiments: Evidence from Afghanistan
Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Evidence from a Health Experiment in Pakistan
The Political Economy of Public Employee Absence: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Explaining Support for Combatants during Wartime: A Survey Experiment in Afghanistan
Rebel Predation: Remotely Sensed Evidence from Liberia
Coordination and Security: How Mobile Communications Affect Insurgency
The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments
Does development assistance reduce violence? Evidence from Afghanistan
The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Why Do Insurgencies Fail? Causes and Effects, Governance and Military Force in Counterinsurgency Strategies
How persistent is armed conflict?
Land and Rebellion: Lessons for Counter-insurgency
War in Afghanistan
Reducing Uncertainty: Information Analysis for Comparative Case Studies
Foreign Aid and Counterinsurgency Policy: Lessons from Land Reform
Nudging Armed Groups: How Civilians Transmit Norms of Protection
Is this Paper Dangerous? Balancing Secrecy and Openness in Counterterrorism
Can Colombia build on its democratic opening?
Protecting Civilians in Civil War: The institution of the ATCC in Colombia
Income or Politics: A Study of Satellite Streetlight Imagery Application in Pakistan
The Impact of US Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Representative Surveys in Insecure Environments A Case Study of Mogadishu, Somalia
Relative Poverty, Perceived Violence, and Support for Militant Politics: Evidence from Pakistan
Measuring Political Violence in Pakistan: Insights from the BFRS Dataset
The BFRS Political Violence in Pakistan Dataset
Natural Disasters and Political Engagement: Evidence from the 2010-11 Pakistani Floods
Effective aid in conflict zones
Insurgent Compensation: Evidence from Iraq
Scalable Information and Communications Technology Reduces Electoral Fraud in Fragile Democracies
State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones
Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones (NBER)
Basemap: Airport and Airbases
Census Data 1985, 1993, and 2005
Municipal Governance, Management, and Development Data
Hectares Coca 2001-2010
Rural Properties Seized by the National Drugs Directorate 1980-2009
Index of Basic Unmet Needs 2005
Perry/Castaneda Map Collection: Vietnam
Perry/Castaneda Map Collection: Philippines
Perry/Castaneda Map Collection: Colombia
Perry/Castaneda Map Collection: Pakistan
Perry/Castaneda Map Collection: Afghanistan
Perry/Castaneda Map Collection: Iraq
Predation, Taxation, Investment, and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
Violence and Ethnic Segregation: A Computational Model Applied to Baghdad
Democratic Values and Support for Militant Politics: Evidence from a National Survey of Pakistan
Faith or Doctrine? Religion and Support for Political Violence in Pakistan
Needles Into Ploughshares: Want to Fight Latin America's Drug Problem? Try Land Reform.
Colombia’s Rebels and Land Reform
Solving the Afghanistan Puzzle
Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State
Mining Afghan Lessons from the Soviet Era (MALSE)
Terrorist Decision-Making: Insights from Economics and Political Science
Conditional Cash Transfers, Civil Conflict and Insurgent Influence: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
Organizing for Resistance: How Group Structure Impacts the Character of Violence
AidData
Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns
Mapping Militant Organizations
ESOC Iraq Civil War Dataset (Version 3)
Social Weather Stations
Philippine GIS Data Clearinghouse (PhilGIS)
GADM Database of Global Administrative Areas
Testing the Surge: Why did Violence Decline in Iraq in 2007?
Monitoring the Monitors: Using ICT to Improve Government Process Evaluation and Monitoring, Punjab, Pakistan
Violence and Election Fraud: Evidence from Afghanistan
89 Neighborhoods in Baghdad
Geo-referenced Baghdad City Tourist Map
Geo-referenced 1:600000 Rectified Map
Geo-referenced Map 2
Geo-referenced Map 1
Iraq Geo-referenced WITS Data (2004-2010)
Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
Ethnicity Study : Ethnic Composition at District Level
Colombian Presidency's Social Action Agency (Departamento para la Prosperidad Social)
UNODC Colombia
National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE)
Colombian Human Rights Observatory/Observatorio Derechos Humanos (DDHH)
Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)
Iraq WFP Survey Data
Iraq Family Health Survey Report (IFHS) 2006-7
WFP Food Security Reports in Iraq
USAID Evidence Summit: Development to Counter Insurgency
Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan
Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
Religious Extremism: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly
CIA Vietnam Histories
Iraqi Central Organization for Statistics (COS)
Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey 2007 (IHSES-2007)
Afghanistan Geo-referenced WITS Data (2005-2009)
Statistical Analysis of Endorsement Experiments: Measuring Support for Militant Groups in Pakistan
Eradication Acreage Data
Afghanistan Opium Price Data (1997-2009)
Afghanistan Opium Price Data (2005-2009)
World Drug Report
Afghan Opium Survey
Administrative Boundaries : Municipalities
Administrative Boundaries : Provinces
Philippines Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International Census Data
Phillipines National Statistical Coordination Board Poverty Statistics
Phillipines National Statistical Coordination Board Good Governance Index
Philippines Integrated Rural Accessibility Planning Data
Philippines Labor Force Survey Data
Vietnam Hamlet Evaluation System Gazetteer Data
Administrative Boundaries : Southeast Asia Provinces
Administrative Boundaries : Southeast Asia Countries
Outline History of 5th SP Gp (Abn): Participation in the CIDG Program 1961-1970
Viet-Cong Strategy of Terror 2/2
Viet-Cong Strategy of Terror 1/2
Election Commission of Pakistan
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
Pakistan FMS09 Survey Data
Pakistan Social And Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Data
Poverty and Support for Militant Politics: Evidence from Pakistan
War, Collaboration, and Endogenous Ethnic Polarization: The Path to Ethnic Cleansing
Terrorizing Democrats: Political Institutions and Terrorists’ Targeting Decisions
Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) Data
Land Reform as a Counterinsurgency Policy: The Case of Colombia
Political Clans and Violence in the Southern Philippines
The Communist Insurgency in the Philippines: Tactics and Talks
The Philippines: Counter-insurgency vs. Counter-terrorism in Mindanao
Pakistan Geo-referenced WITS Data (2004-2009)
Global Terrorism Database (Worldwide Incident Tracking System)
Drug Production and Trafficking, Counterdrug Policies, and Security and Governance in Afghanistan
Testing Galula in Ameriyah: The People Are the Key
Evaluating U.S. Foreign Assistance to Afghanistan
UNHCR country operations profile - Iraq
Dangerous Correlations: Aid’s Impact on NGOs’ Performance and Ability to Mobilize Members in Pakistan
Is the Phone Mightier than the Sword? Cell Phones and Insurgent Violence in Iraq
The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
Islam, Militancy, and Politics in Pakistan: Insights from a National Sample
Understanding Support for Islamist Militancy in Pakistan
Moral Hazard, Discipline, and the Management of Terrorist Organizations
Who Takes the Blame? The Strategic Effects of Collateral Damage
Can Hearts and Minds be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
Electing Displacement: Political Cleansing in Apartadó, Colombia
Historical Underpinnings of Institutions: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution
Historical Group Divergence and Cultural Persistence: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution
Basemap: Settlements
Routes
Basemap: Rivers
Basemap: Lakes
Administrative Boundaries : 398 Districts
Administrative Boundaries : 329 Districts
Basemap: Cities of 1 Million
Rainfall Interpolation : Quarterly Rainfall
Placename Gazetteer
Basemap: Cities of 100 Thousand to 1 Million
Basemap: Cities of 1 Million
Administrative Boundaries : Tehsils
Administrative Boundaries : Districts
Administrative Boundaries : Divisions
Administrative Boundaries : Provinces
Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict
Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
Philippines National Statistics Office
Mindanao Human Rights and Human Security: MinHRAC
Mindanao and Beyond: Competing Policies, Protracted Conflict, and Human Security
Primed and Purposeful: Armed Groups and Human Security Efforts in the Philippines
Southern Philippines Backgrounder: Terrorism and the Peace Process
World Bank Afghanistan
ISAF/NATO
Integrity Watch Afghanistan
Ethnicity Study : District Level Ethnic Populations
Ethnicity Study : Boundaries of Ethno-Religious Areas
Administrative Boundaries : Districts
Administrative Boundaries : Governorates
Ethnicity Study : Map Images
Iraq Reconstruction Data
Constructive COIN: How Development Can Fight Radicals
Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines