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Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University

Headquarters: Uppsala
Founded: Collection began in 1979; formalized in the mid-1980s and renamed UCDP in 2003
Funding: Funded by Uppsala University, the Swedish Research Council, and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, with Sweden’s development agency Sida a former major funder. Annual turnover runs between 5 and 10 million Swedish kronor.
Governance: A research programme of the university’s Department of Peace and Conflict Research, directed by Magnus Öberg since 2018.
Published: An annual full release of the event dataset plus a monthly candidate-events release running no more than a month behind.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).