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A Useful Data Set on Political Violence that Almost No One Is Using

For the past 10 years, the CIA has overtly funded the production of a publicly available data set on certain atrocities around the world that now covers the period from January 1995 to early 2014 and is still updated on a regular basis. If you work in a relevant field but didn’t know that, you’re not alone.

The data set in question is the Political Instability Task Force’s Worldwide Atrocities…