The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) data project is the first of its kind to collect systematic data on both violent insurgencies and nonviolent civil resistance campaigns. The coverage is global but is excluded to maximalist campaigns (i.e. those seeking to overthrow an incumbent government, expel a foreign military occupation, or secede). NAVCO now has multiple published versions, as well as several others in progress. The 1.0 version of the data included a consensus list of 323 major campaigns from 1900 to 2006. The data were updated with minor corrections, and the 1.1 version of NAVCO was published in 2011. NAVCO 1.2, published by Erica Chenoweth and Christopher Wiley Shay and consisting of 389 campaigns, updates the postwar data through 2013 and adds new cases that were discovered through additional research. Chenoweth and Shay released the list of campaigns they are coding in NAVCO 1.3, which covers 622 campaigns from 1900-2019, in early 2020. They will release the full NAVCO 1.3 dataset, with corrections and the full variable list, by the end of 2020. In 2013, Erica Chenoweth and Orion Lewis introduced the NAVCO 2 data series with the release of NAVCO 2.0—an updated and expanded version of the data that covered 250 campaigns from 1945-2006. In the NAVCO 2 series, the data are disaggregated at the annual level, so that researchers can track changes in the campaign over time. Moreover, each annual observation includes a host of new variables, ranging from the campaign’s observed participation size to the diversity of participation to the opponent’s response to third-party support to the strategic progress of the campaign. NAVCO 2.1, which Erica Chenoweth collected with Christopher Wiley Shay, covers campaign-year data for 384 campaigns during the period 1945-2013. NAVCO 2.1 adds new campaigns, corrects known coding errors, and adds several new variables, including aggregate participation counts, fatality ranges, and a nuanced set of variables regarding violent flanks. The data are posted here with the project codebook and brief description. In late 2020, Chenoweth & Shay plan to release NAVCO 2.2, which updates the campaign-year data through 2019. Erica Chenoweth, Orion Lewis, and Jonathan Pinckney introduced the NAVCO 3 series in 2018. NAVCO 3.0 reports daily resistance events in 26 countries from 1990-2011, with a variety of indicators such as the type, scope, and category of each event. Further versions in the 3.0 series are not expected at this time.
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Mar 17, 2020
Chenoweth, Erica; Christopher Wiley Shay, 2020, "List of Campaigns in NAVCO 1.3", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ON9XND, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GD3vspZ7XK7H7KFdiKFICw== [fileUNF]
Includes 622 maximalist campaigns that set on from 1900-2019, correcting known coding errors and adding cases that were discovered through further research. Includes outcomes through 2019. Excludes data on violent flanks, peak participation size, regime and campaign support, secu...
Jan 12, 2020
Chenoweth, Erica; Christopher Wiley Shay, 2019, "NAVCO 1.2 Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0UZOTX, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:zx7thIQfpp5M64v0kOiIqg== [fileUNF]
Includes 389 maximalist campaigns that set on from 1945-2013, correcting known coding errors and adding cases that were discovered through further research. Includes outcomes through 2014.
Dec 18, 2019
Chenoweth, Erica; Christopher Wiley Shay, 2019, "NAVCO 2.1 Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MHOXDV, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:FP+ODWheBImScIr0p0aMrw== [fileUNF]
Campaign-year data for 384 campaigns from 1945-2013, with several new variables, including aggregate participation counts, fatality ranges, and a nuanced set of variables regarding violent flanks. The data are posted here with the project codebook. Chenoweth & Shay will also rele...
Nov 6, 2019
Chenoweth, Erica, 2019, "NAVCO Data Project Version History and Description Guide", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CQFXXM, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This file contains a version history for the NAVCO data project, as well as a summary of version histories and coverage.
Nov 6, 2019
Chenoweth, Erica; Jonathan Pinckney; Orion A. Lewis, 2019, "NAVCO 3.0 Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/INNYEO, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:SnfOJ4ekPMM7bJIuYkt+LA== [fileUNF]
Reports over 100,000 resistance events in 26 countries from 1990-2011, with a variety of indicators such as the type, scope, and category of each event. Further versions in the 3.0 series are not expected at this time.
Nov 6, 2019
Chenoweth, Erica; Orion A. Lewis, 2019, "NAVCO 2.0 Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PLXAFY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:EPTTO9WPKcRoUuG7TylKOw== [fileUNF]
Includes 250 maximalist campaigns from 1945-2006. Data are disaggregated at the annual level, so that researchers can track changes in the campaign over time. Second, each annual observation includes a host of new variables, ranging from the campaign’s observed participation size...
Nov 6, 2019
Chenoweth, Erica, 2019, "NAVCO 1.1 Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YLLHEE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:BRIvd3VgtbVJVnSJ0VrUoA== [fileUNF]
Includes 323 maximalist campaigns from 1900 to 2006. The 1.1 version of NAVCO was published in 2011 along with the book Why Civil Resistance Works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan. These data are superseded by NAVCO 1.2 and are included here for archival purposes.
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