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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821309003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

6611786147

1-281-78614-4

9786611786144

600-00-0631-4

1-60750-319-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

KauffmannMayeul

Disciplina

327.16

Soggetti

Databases

Political violence - Databases

Political violence - Research - Statistical methods

War - Databases

War - Research - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.