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Conflict Termination

The process of determining when a conflict has ended, including the use of datasets and codebooks to identify termination mechanisms such as victory, peace agreements, and ceasefires.

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Jan 21, 2026

What specific criteria does PRIO use to classify a conflict as terminated versus ongoing?

PRIO (through the UCDP/PRIO collaborative datasets) treats a conflict as “terminated” when researchers can assign a precise end_date to an episode of continuous armed violence and identify a concrete ...