COSIMO

HIIK, in its databank Cosimo, records information on political conflicts between 1945 and today. Since 2003, it works with a relational datenbank system, completely reconsidering, updating, and extending the dataset of COSIMO 1.3. At present, COSIMO 2.0 includes information on far more than 500 conflicts with over 2,500 phases. By the systematic recording of single conflict measures, the new conception enables the detailed description of the conflict development in violent and non-violent phases. In addition, the databank includes extensive information on the structure of state and non-state actors, that are recorded per year.