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Africa: Conflicts Without Borders 2009

Dataset Summary

Agency	Department of State
Sub-Agency
Category	Other
Date Released	01-Dec-2007
Date Updated	01-Sep-2009
Time Period	years
Frequency	semi-annual
Description	Conflicts Without Borders, which visualizes conflict in Africa as sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence that occurred in the first seven months of 2009. Areas of conflict were drawn around locations of reported conflict incidents in 2009, as well as around concentrations of internally displaced persons inside affected countries and cross-border rebel bases and refugee camps in neighboring countries. (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Other
Keywords	Africa, armed conflict, inter-communal strife, political violence, piracy incidents, taregted attacks, refugees, displaced
Unique ID	1200

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	Conflicts without Borders http://hiu.state.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.display&shortcut=JF4R
Agency Program Page	http://hiu.state.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.display&shortcut=JFCH
Agency Data Series Page	http://hiu.state.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.display&shortcut=CXS3

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	news updates
Granularity	sub-national and transnational
Geographic Coverage	Africa

Data Description

Collection Mode	computer
Data Collection Instrument	computer
Data Dictionary/Variable List	Conflict, border, sub-national, nationwide, transnational, armed, locations

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://hiu.state.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.display&shortcut=CXS3
Additional Metadata

OMB Control No. 3090-0284