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Addendum
To Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ragnhild Nordås & Idean Salehyan: Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict. Challenges for Human and International Security. New York: International Peace Academy, 2007, www.ipacademy.org/publications/policy-papers.
Data sources
For data on armed conflict and war cited in the paper, we rely on the Uppsala/PRIO
conflict database at www.prio.no/cscw/armedconflict and the PRIO battle deaths
data at www.prio.no/cscw/cross/battledeaths.
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