Politics

GADM is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas (or adminstrative boundaries) for use in GIS and similar software. Administrative areas in this database are countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, bibhag, bundeslander, daera ...

TFDD RiverBasin Organization (catalog)

The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict not systematically tracked in other conflict datasets. SCAD currently includes information social conflicts ...

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset (ACLED) tracks the actions of opposition groups, governments, and militias across Africa and Asia, specifying the exact location and date of battle events, transfers of military control, headquarter establishment, civilian violence, and rio ...

This International Water Events Database is a searchable database documenting over 6400 historical international water relations from 1948 to 2008. Events in the database concern water as a scarce or consumable resource or as a quantity to be managed. Event information includes the bas ...

The Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (TFDD)is a database intended for use in aiding the process of water conflict prevention and resolution. We have developed this database, a project of the Oregon State University College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, in collabor ...

International RiverCooperation andConflict IRCC

The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper “The COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)” by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of ...

The Armed Conflict Database contains statistical data, analytical reports and daily timeline updates on the political, military and humanitarian developments in 41 active and 47 archived conflicts, as well as information on selected non-state armed groups and a compilation of annual tr ...