The Economist draws on the latest data, and presents a statistically based
overview of armed conflict since World War II to the present, with
state-of-the-art graphics. The article cites Scott Gates, the Director of
PRIO's Centre for the Study of Civil War (2003-12). Gates and others in
PRIO’s Conflict
Trends research milieu provided much of the background for the article,
which also cites other PRIO associates, including James Fearon and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,
and it applies data
produced in collaboration with the University of Uppsala. The article is a
must read for anybody interested in the dynamics of war and peace.