Description: The web site of the Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) research project. This site describes the project and provides access to downloadable project codebooks, associated papers, and publicly released data sets.
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The Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) project is a research project that is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics. The project was honored with the 2019 J. David Singer Data Innovation Award from the American Political Science Association's Conflict Processes section, which is "given for the best data contribution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict, either within or between nation-states."
More detail on the project's goals and theoretical underpinnings may be found in the papers generated by the project, particularly the following:
The project was started in 1997 by Paul R. Hensel , then at the Political Science department at Florida State University and now at the University of North Texas. The project began with a focus on territorial claims, which had the greatest amount of scholarly interest at the time, but with the intention of expanding to other issue types in the future (which is why it was called the Issue Correlates of War project, not something like the Territorial Correlates of War project). Sara McLaughlin Mitchell , then