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Therese Pettersson and Lotta Themnier on the Georeferenced Event Dataset

Professor Spagat interviews Therese Pettersson and Lotta Themnier about the Georeferenced Event Dataset of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

In this clip I interview Lotta Themnér and Therése Pettersson, both of the department of peace and conflict research of Uppsala University. We talked about the Georeferenced Event Dataset (GED) produced by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program for which Lotta and Therése are both project leaders.

From the perspective of our course I underline a few points about the GED database.

It is a global database that begins its coverage in 1989 and is updated annually.
It fits squarely within the event-data branch of casualty recording methodology that we studied in week 1. That said, the coding team applies relatively stringent requirements for the inclusion of events in the database, e.g., that the identities of perpetrating groups must be known.
It provides the location of each event. We have not discussed detailed geo-location in the course but this is an important and notable feature of the dataset.

Upon my request Lotta and Therése provided the following bios.

LOTTA THEMNÉR (previously Harbom), b. 1975, MA in Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University, 2002); project leader, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Department of Peace and Conflict Research: articles on conflict data published in the Journal of Peace Research and SIPRI Yearbook since 2005; editor of States in Armed Conflict between 2004 and 2012.

THERÉSE PETTERSSON, b. 1982, MA in Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University, 2008); project leader, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Department of Peace and Conflict Research; articles on conflict data published in the Journal of Peace Research since 2015: editor of States in Armed Conflict between 2010 and 2012.