Conflict Management by International Organizations, 1945-1970: Detailed Description

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Haas, Ernst, Robert Butterworth, and Joseph Nye. Conflict Management by International Organizations, 1945-1970. ICPSR05303-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-09-17. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05303.v2

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Description & Citation--Study No. 5303

Bibliographic Description
Scope of Study
Methodology
Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

05303

Title:

Conflict Management by International Organizations, 1945-1970

Principal Investigator(s):

Haas, Ernst

Butterworth, Robert

Nye, Joseph

Bibliographic Citation:

Scope of Study

Summary:

This study contains data on 146 disputes in different geographical regions of the world that were managed by international or regional organizations in the period 1945-1970. Part of the project on Studies in International Integration of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California (Berkeley), this study was aimed at addressing how much difference international organizations have made in the management of international conflicts. Data are provided for conflicts brought before at least one of the following organizations whose primary concern was conflict management among members: United Nations, Organization of American States, Organization of African Unity, Arab League, and the Council of Europe. For each dispute, data are provided for the name of the conflict, issues at stake, power status of the parties involved, responses of the international organizations involved in managing the dispute, interstate nature of the dispute, duration of hostilities, civil and military fatalities, likelihood of the dispute abating, disappearing, or escalating if the disputing parties were left to themselves by the international organizations, and the likelihood that the United States and the Soviet Union would engage in a major war over the dispute, involving the use of nuclear weapons or massive conventional weapons on several fronts. A summary scale was developed by the investigators to measure the intensity levels of each dispute, and to score the successes of organizational management of the dispute.

Subject Terms:

Arab League, armed conflict, conflict resolution, Council of Europe, fatalities, international conflict, international organizations, intervention strategies, mediation, negotiation, Organization of African Unity, Organization of American States, political violence, war

Geographic Coverage:

Global

Time Period:

1945--1970

Universe:

A total of 146 disputes in different geographical regions of the world that were managed by international or regional organizations in the period 1945-1970.

Data Types:

event/transaction data

Methodology

Data Source:

Cady, Richard, A., and William Prince. POLITICAL CONFLICTS, 1944-1966 (ICPSR 5302).

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.
Standardized missing values.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1984-05-03

Version History:

2009-09-17 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.