Civil Wars by Year, Type, Partitions, and Recurrence (Sambanis, 2000)

This is Table 1 from Sambanis (2000), critiquing the claims that partition of warring groups after a civil war should be conducive to peace. These data are useful for pedagogical instruction of Chi-squared tests of independence.

Usage

Sambanis00

Format

A data frame with 125 observations on the following 7 variables.

place

the place (country) of the civil war

start

the start year of the civil war

end

the end year of the civil war

war2y

did the war end for 2 years?

rv2y

did residual violence end for 2 years?

partition

was there a partition?

wartype

type of war (identity or not?)

Details

Sambanis (2000) does not say this outright, but it's implied that the ongoing wars are ongoing as of 2000 (as opposed to some other date).

References

Sambanis, Nicholas. 2000. "Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature." World Politics 52(4): 437–83.