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September 2004 References updated and minor corrections, October 2005 Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths Documentation of Coding Decisions II: Correlates of War Data Bethany Lacina 1 Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW) International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) 1 Bethany Lacina ( [email protected] ) is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Graduate Fellow of political science at Stanford University. She completed this project as a research assistant at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO. 1 Acknowledgements and a Note on Citations and Copyrights The work reported here has been carried out in collaboration with a number of colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, the Uppsala Conflict Data Project, and the Centre for Human Security, Liu Centre for Global Issues, University of British Columbia. Glenn Martin and Ragnhild Nordås deserve special thanks for their careful editing of these materials. This work has been funded mainly by the Research Council of Norway, with additional contributions from the Centre for Human Security. Users of the battle deaths dataset should cite the article in which the data are presented: Bethany Lacina & Nils Petter Gleditsch, 2005. ‘Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths’, European Journal of Population 21(2–3): 145–166. Users of this dataset should contact Bethany Lacina ([email protected]) with comments or corrections. For permission to make extensive use of their materials would like to thank the Centre for Human Security, Liu Centre for Global Issues, University of British Columbia; Project Ploughshares; Juan Fernando Giraldo; Enric Martínez-Herrera, Jorge Restrepo; Michael Spagat; the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; the Uppsala University Conflict Data Project; and Juan F. Vargas. The copyrights to the materials produced by these and all of sources are retained by their original authors and publishers. These excerpts presented here should not be used as a basis for quotation, reproduction, or distribution of the included materials. Users must contact the original authors and/or publishers if they wish to gain permission for such activities. In a few cases, manuscripts and other works-in-progress have been cited. Users should be aware that they must contact the original authors to obtain the most up-to-date versions of those documents, and that the authors’ language or findings may have changed somewhat when these documents appear as published works. 2 Table of Contents Notes to Users..............................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Definition of Battle Deaths ..........................................................................................................................................................................................8 Wars in the Correlates of War data not included in Uppsala/PRIO Data..................................................................................................................10 Extra-Systemic Wars .................................................................................................................................................................................................10 American-Philippino War, 4 February 1899–4 July 1902 (COW War No. 392)..................................................................................................10 Somali Rebellion, September 1899–5 March 1905 (COW War No. 393) ............................................................................................................11 Boer War of 1899, 11 October 1899–31 May 1902 (COW War No. 395)............................................................................................................12 British Conquest of Kano & Sokoto, 19 January–27 July 1903 (COW War No. 396) .........................................................................................13 Southwest African Revolt, 12 January 1904–November 1905 (COW War No. 397)...........................................................................................14 Maji-Maji Revolt, July 1905–June 1906 (COW War No. 399).............................................................................................................................16 British-Zulu War of 1906, March 1906–July 1906 (COW War No. 400).............................................................................................................17 First Moroccan War, 1911–30 March 1912 (COW War No. 401)........................................................................................................................17 Sino-Tibetan War of 1912, March 1912–April 1913 (COW War No. 402)..........................................................................................................18 Second Moroccan War, 1916–1917 (COW War No. 404)....................................................................................................................................19 Sino-Tibetan War of 1918, 7 January–August 1918 (COW War No. 405)...........................................................................................................19 Caco Revolt, 17 October 1918–19 May 1920 (COW War No. 406).....................................................................................................................20 British-Afghan War of 1919, May–8 August 1919 (COW War No. 408) ............................................................................................................21 Franco-Syrian War, 1920 (COW War No. 409)....................................................................................................................................................21 Iraqi-British War, June 1920–1921 (COW War No. 410).....................................................................................................................................22 Italo–Libyan War, June 1920–July 1932 (COW War No. 412) ............................................................................................................................22 Riff Rebellion, 18 July 1921–27 May 1926 (COW War No. 413)........................................................................................................................23 Moplah Rebellion, November 1921–February 1922 (COW War No. 414) ..........................................................................................................25 Franco-Druze War, 18 July 1925–1 June 1927 (COW War No. 416)...................................................................................................................25 Saya San’s Rebellion, December 1930–June 1932 (COW War No. 417).............................................................................................................26 British-Palestinian War, 20 April 1936–17 May 1939 (COW War No. 418) .......................................................................................................27 Interstate Wars ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................28 Boxer Rebellion, 17 June–14 August 1900 (COW War No. 82)...........................................................................................................................28 Sino-Russian War, 17 August–10 October 1900 (COW War No. 83) ..................................................................................................................29 3 Russo-Japanese War, 8 February 1904–15 September 1905 (COW War No. 85)................................................................................................30 Third Central American War, 27 May–20 July 1906 (COW War No. 88) ...........................................................................................................31 Fourth Central American War, 19 February–23 May 1907 (COW War No. 91)..................................................................................................32 Spanish-Moroccan War, 7 July 1909–23 March 1910 (COW War No. 94)..........................................................................................................32 Italo-Turkish War, 29 September 1911–18 October 1912 (COW War No. 97)....................................................................................................33 First Balkan War, 17 October 1912–19 April 1913 (COW War No. 100)............................................................................................................34 Second Balkan War, 30 June–30 July 1913 (COW War No. 103)........................................................................................................................35 World War I, 29 August 1914–11 November 1918 (COW War No. 106)............................................................................................................36 Russo-Polish War, 14 February 1919–18 October 1920 (COW War No. 109) ....................................................................................................40 Hungarian-Allies War, 16 April–4 August 1919 (COW War No. 112) ................................................................................................................41 Greco-Turkish War, 5 May 1919–11 October 1922 (COW War No. 115) ...........................................................................................................42