2017
DOI: 10.1177/0738894217709012
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The Security-Force Ethnicity (SFE) Project: Introducing a new dataset

Abstract: The ethnic composition of state security forces is believed to have important effects on the dynamics of conflict processes, but data limitations have impeded our ability to test such hypotheses cross-nationally until now. To address this problem, the Security Force Ethnicity dataset provides time-series, group-level measures of the ethnic composition of military forces in the Middle East between 1946 and 2013. We draw on an extensive review of case studies and histories to produce unique ordinal codings for p… Show more

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“…Particular attention was paid to ethnic politics and armed conflicts with the introduction of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) datasets (Wimmer et al 2009, Weidmann et al 2010, Vogt et al 2015, whose geocoded version is known as GeoEPR (Wucherpfenning et al 2011). Other recently introduced geocoded datasets include the Geo-PKO dataset on peacekeeping operations (Cil et al 2019), the Ethnic One-Sided Violence dataset on civilian victims (Fjelde et al 2019), the Security-Force Ethnicity (SFE) dataset on military forces in the Middle East (Johnson and Thurber 2017), and the Leadership Changes in Rebel Groups dataset (Lutmar and Terris 2019).…”
Section: Motivation For a New Indicatormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Particular attention was paid to ethnic politics and armed conflicts with the introduction of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) datasets (Wimmer et al 2009, Weidmann et al 2010, Vogt et al 2015, whose geocoded version is known as GeoEPR (Wucherpfenning et al 2011). Other recently introduced geocoded datasets include the Geo-PKO dataset on peacekeeping operations (Cil et al 2019), the Ethnic One-Sided Violence dataset on civilian victims (Fjelde et al 2019), the Security-Force Ethnicity (SFE) dataset on military forces in the Middle East (Johnson and Thurber 2017), and the Leadership Changes in Rebel Groups dataset (Lutmar and Terris 2019).…”
Section: Motivation For a New Indicatormentioning
confidence: 99%
“…After capturing power, Kagame's Tutsi-led regime did successfully reintegrate Hutu into the national military, including at higher ranks of the officer corps. However, the most senior leadership and vital command positions within the army have been kept in the hands of former rebel Tutsi officers (Jowell, 2014: 279–289). Rwanda under Kagame was thus coded as ethnically stacked, but only to a limited degree (Extent = 1).…”
Section: Data Collection Coding and Conceptual Issuesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The latter includes Project Mars, which documents ethnic group representation among belligerents in conventional wars as well as pre-war discrimination and violence experienced at the hands of incumbent governments (Lyall, 2020: 153-157). Relatedly, Johnson and Thurber (2020) gathered data on ethnic group access to the military in the Middle East, coding whether groups are under-or over-represented compared with their population numbers in both the officer corps and rank-and-file. 1 ESAD differs from these other data collection efforts based on ethnic representation or demography within military institutions.…”
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“…For instance, the Pro-Government Militia Dataset (PGMD) tracks militias that are pro-government or government-sponsored but -in contrast to the SSF dataset -focuses on those that are not an official part of the state's security sector (Carey, Mitchell, & Lowe 2013). 1 Other datasets capture important aspects of civil-military relations and military staffing, including the degree of civilian control over the military (Narang & Talmadge, 2018), ethnic composition of military forces in particular regions (Harkness, 2018;Johnson & Thurber, 2017), and use of conscription (Margulies, 2018), but do not include information on the features of individual security forces in a global sample. The SSF dataset can thus complement these recent efforts.…”
Section: Existing Research and Datamentioning
confidence: 99%