Building and using datasets on armed conflicts / edited by Mayeul Kauffmann.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Indicators and Databases for Risk Prevention, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Kauffmann, Mayeul.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.

Conference Name:

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Indicators and Databases for Risk Prevention (2007 : Grenoble, France)

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Indicators and Databases for Risk Prevention

Series:

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: Human and Societal Dynamics, v. 36

NATO science for peace and security series. E, Human and societal dynamics ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Databases--Congresses.

Databases.

Political violence--Databases--Congresses.

Political violence.

Political violence--Research--Statistical methods--Congresses.

War--Databases--Congresses.

War.

War--Research--Statistical methods--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The so-called 'hard' or 'exact' sciences, with their necessary emphasis on technology and on the technical, are hardly reputed for being very human, and, conversely, the so-called 'human' sciences are often pronounced as 'soft' because they cannot be based on the certainties associated with the former.

Contents:

Title page; Preface; Foreword; Contents; Introduction; The Purposes of Conflict Dataset Building; Concept Definition and Data Building; Opening up Conflict Data; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

6611786147

1-281-78614-4

9786611786144

600-00-0631-4

1-60750-319-0

OCLC:

437229108