{"id": 814838, "name": "Number of ongoing wars per state - Conflict type: intra-state (non-internationalized)", "unit": "wars per state", "createdAt": "2023-10-03T17:18:45.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-03-14T14:59:38.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1816-2014", "datasetId": 6222, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "number_ongoing_conflicts_per_country__conflict_type_intra_state__non_internationalized", "catalogPath": "grapher/war/2023-09-21/cow/cow#number_ongoing_conflicts_per_country__conflict_type_intra_state__non_internationalized", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1816}, {"id": 1817}, {"id": 1818}, {"id": 1819}, {"id": 1820}, {"id": 1821}, {"id": 1822}, {"id": 1823}, {"id": 1824}, {"id": 1825}, {"id": 1826}, {"id": 1827}, {"id": 1828}, {"id": 1829}, {"id": 1830}, {"id": 1831}, {"id": 1832}, {"id": 1833}, {"id": 1834}, {"id": 1835}, {"id": 1836}, {"id": 1837}, {"id": 1838}, {"id": 1839}, {"id": 1840}, {"id": 1841}, {"id": 1842}, {"id": 1843}, {"id": 1844}, {"id": 1845}, {"id": 1846}, {"id": 1847}, {"id": 1848}, {"id": 1849}, {"id": 1850}, {"id": 1851}, {"id": 1852}, {"id": 1853}, {"id": 1854}, {"id": 1855}, {"id": 1856}, {"id": 1857}, {"id": 1858}, {"id": 1859}, {"id": 1860}, {"id": 1861}, {"id": 1862}, {"id": 1863}, {"id": 1864}, {"id": 1865}, {"id": 1866}, {"id": 1867}, {"id": 1868}, {"id": 1869}, {"id": 1870}, {"id": 1871}, {"id": 1872}, {"id": 1873}, {"id": 1874}, {"id": 1875}, {"id": 1876}, {"id": 1877}, {"id": 1878}, {"id": 1879}, {"id": 1880}, {"id": 1881}, {"id": 1882}, {"id": 1883}, {"id": 1884}, {"id": 1885}, {"id": 1886}, {"id": 1887}, {"id": 1888}, {"id": 1889}, {"id": 1890}, {"id": 1891}, {"id": 1892}, {"id": 1893}, {"id": 1894}, {"id": 1895}, {"id": 1896}, {"id": 1897}, {"id": 1898}, {"id": 1899}, {"id": 1900}, {"id": 1901}, {"id": 1902}, {"id": 1903}, {"id": 1904}, {"id": 1905}, {"id": 1906}, {"id": 1907}, {"id": 1908}, {"id": 1909}, {"id": 1910}, {"id": 1911}, {"id": 1912}, {"id": 1913}, {"id": 1914}, {"id": 1915}, {"id": 1916}, {"id": 1917}, {"id": 1918}, {"id": 1919}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1921}, {"id": 1922}, {"id": 1923}, {"id": 1924}, {"id": 1925}, {"id": 1926}, {"id": 1927}, {"id": 1928}, {"id": 1929}, {"id": 1930}, {"id": 1931}, {"id": 1932}, {"id": 1933}, {"id": 1934}, {"id": 1935}, {"id": 1936}, {"id": 1937}, {"id": 1938}, {"id": 1939}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1941}, {"id": 1942}, {"id": 1943}, {"id": 1944}, {"id": 1945}, {"id": 1946}, {"id": 1947}, {"id": 1948}, {"id": 1949}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 273, "name": "Africa", "code": null}, {"id": 290, "name": "Americas", "code": null}, {"id": 29325, "name": "Asia and Oceania", "code": null}, {"id": 276, "name": "Europe", "code": null}, {"id": 25487, "name": "Middle East", "code": null}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "The number of wars divided by the number of all states. This accounts for the changing number of states over time.Included are non-internationalized intrastate wars that were ongoing a year.", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "0191c16a-91ad-7475-bb61-48dcd476f234", "dataChecksum": "1204290798550429534", "metadataChecksum": "3621603203781628220", "datasetName": "History of war (COW, 2020)", "datasetVersion": "2023-09-21", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "wars per state", "numDecimalPlaces": 3}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["War & Peace"]}, "descriptionKey": ["An non-internationalized intrastate war is a conflict between a state and a non-state armed group, or between non-state armed groups, that causes at least 1,000 deaths during a year. This includes combatant deaths due to fighting, disease, and starvation.", "We count a war as ongoing in a region even if the war is also ongoing in other regions. 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The paper [\u201cThe COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/COW-Website-Typology-of-war-v4.pdf)\u201d by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of the changes since \u201cResort to Arms.\u201d In March 2010, the New COW War List was released. On June 30, 2010, the Non-State War Data (v4.0) became available. On October 28, 2010, the Intra-State War Data (v4.0) was released and on April 6, 2020 the Intra-State War Data (v5.1) became available online. On March 1, 2011, the Inter-State War Data (v4.0) became available online. Finally, we released the Extra-State War Data (v4.0) on December 8, 2011.", "producer": "Correlates of War", "citationFull": "Sarkees, Meredith Reid and Frank Wayman (2010). Resort to War: 1816 \u2013 2007. 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Such entities include governments of other types of geopolitical units (GPUs), such as dependencies or non-state autonomous entities, that do not meet the criteria of system membership. They also might involve nonterritorial entities (NTEs) or non-state armed groups (NSAs) that have no defined territorial base.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Non-StateWars_Codebook.pdf", "description": "The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. The paper [\u201cThe COW Typology of War: Defining and Categorizing Wars (Version 4 of the Data)](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/COW-Website-Typology-of-war-v4.pdf)\u201d by Meredith Reid Sarkees gives an overview of the COW war typology, the descriptions of the basic variables, coding rules and some of the changes since \u201cResort to Arms.\u201d In March 2010, the New COW War List was released. On June 30, 2010, the Non-State War Data (v4.0) became available. 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Dixon and Meredith Reid Sarkees. The primary attributes of Version 5.1 are that: it includes updated data on the intra-state wars from 1816-2014; and it includes wars that were omitted from the GUIDE due to publication errors. The dataset is composed of two files: Intra-state-Wars v.5.1.csv; and Intra\u2010state_state_participant_v5.1.csv. The first (Wars) provides summary information on each war, while the second file (state_participant) provides information on the war experience of each of the individual states involved.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/Intra-StateWars_Codebook.pdf", "description": "The COW Project introduced COW Wars v4.0, 1816-2007 in 2010. 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These data sets identify states, their standard Correlates of War \u201ccountry code\u201d or state number (used throughout the Correlates of War project data sets), state abbreviations, and dates of membership as states and major powers in the international system. Version 2016 extends the temporal domain of the collection through December 2016.\n\nThe Correlates of War project includes a state in the international system from 1816-2016 for the following criteria. Prior to 1920, the entity must have had a population greater than 500,000 and have had diplomatic missions at or above the rank of charge d\u2019affaires with Britain and France. After 1920, the entity must be a member of the League of Nations or the United Nations, or have a population greater than 500,000 and receive diplomatic missions from two major powers.\n\nFind more information in [their codebook](https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/State-System-Membership-Codebook-V2016.pdf)", "producer": "Correlates of War", "citationFull": "Correlates of War Project. 2017. \u201cState System Membership List, v2016.\u201d Online, http://correlatesofwar.org", "attribution": "Correlates of War - State System Membership (2017)", "attributionShort": "COW", "versionProducer": "v2016", "urlMain": "https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/state-system-membership/", "urlDownload": "https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/states2016.csv", "dateAccessed": "2023-09-22", "datePublished": "2017-02-20", "license": {"url": "https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/", "name": "Correlates of War terms"}}]}