Description
Book Synopsis.- Chapter 1. Introduction: developing a comparative approach to understand the impact of quantitative data on the perception and management of armed conflict.- Part 1: Academic practices of conflict data collection and analysis .- Chapter 2. Mind over Materiel: Peace Research, Conflict Data, and the Politics of Quantification (Gray Anderson).- Chapter 3. Positivist misrecognition and conflict alarmism. The case of the Thucydides trap (Thomas Lindemann).- Part 2: Practitioner perceptions and use patterns.- Chapter 4. French Disconnection: Armed Conflict Databases usages in Diplomacy and Defense (Louise Beaumais & Frédéric Ramel).- Chapter 5. Navigating the Administrative Landscape of Conflict Early Warning Systems: From Managerial Optimism to Bureaucratic Realities (Louise Beaumais).- Chapter 6. Caught Between Will and Ability: Exploring the Use of Numbers in Media Coverage of Armed Conflict (Iris Lambert).- Chapter 7. Different jobs, similar problems: Exploring the effects of the self-sustaining (mis)uses of quantitative data on armed conflict by humanitarian workers and journalists (Louise Beaumais & Iris Lambert).- Part 3: Dissemination challenges and lessons .- Chapter 8. How to teach data awareness? Five pedagogic principles based on the lessons of the DATAWAR dissemination activities (Éric Sangar & Sami Makki).- Chapter 9. Holding Corporations Accountable? Data Awareness and Public Scrutiny in Endangered Democratic Settings (Sami Makki).- Chapter 10. (Femke Mulder).- Chapter 11. Conclusion (Ned Lebow).
