UCDP is part of several important collaborations, for instance the extensive and well-established collaborations with the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway. In addition to collecting data, the program disseminates knowledge on trends and dynamics of armed conflict to the public via lectures at academic and government forums, as well as through participating in conferences and exhibitions such as the Swedish Forum for Human Rights. candidates are also affiliated with the program.

The program is led by Associate Professor Magnus Öberg, and employs approximately 10-15 research assistants and researchers. The UCDP is based at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research of Uppsala University in Sweden. After this Wallensteen continued to serve as a Senior Advisor for the UCDP. One of the leading researchers associated with the UCDP is Professor Peter Wallensteen that founded and led the program since its initiation until 31 July 2015. In later years, the data collection grew, and the program began collecting data on 'non-state conflicts' (where neither actor is a state) and 'one-sided violence' (where an organized actor attacks unarmed civilians). Initially, the program collected data only on so-called 'armed conflicts', defined as fighting exceeding 25 battle-related deaths between two actors of which at least one was a state. It became clear that more systematic and global data on armed conflicts was necessary for conducting research in the expanding academic discipline of peace and conflict studies. The UCDP began recording information on ongoing violent conflicts in the 1980s. The UCDP also makes its data publicly available through its interactive website, UCDP website.

The UCDP's data is published annually in the Journal of Peace Research. Furthermore, preliminary data on events of organized violence in Africa is released on a monthly basis. Data are updated annually and are publicly available, free of charge. UCDP data are systematically collected and have global coverage, comparability across cases and countries, and long time series. The UCDP is a leading provider of data on organized violence and armed conflict, and it is the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years. The Uppsala Conflict Data Program ( UCDP) is a data collection program on organized violence, based at Uppsala University in Sweden. Approximately 15 research assistants and researchers

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