<b>SBGV & Dynamics of Conflict Dataset </b>

<p dir="ltr">The <b>SGBV & Dynamics of Conflict dataset</b> is comprised of SGBV reports for seven conflict-affected country cases, allowing the study to meet the following criteria: 1) representation of the five different types of conflict; 2) cases in the top 20 for conflict deaths/attacks during the 2010–2020 period and, 3) inclusion of cases from different global regions (Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East).</p><p dir="ltr">Using the codebook on this page, <b>SGBV reports are analysed across three years in each of the following countries</b>: Central African Republic (one-sided [rebel-led] violence), Colombia (state-based violence), Myanmar (one-sided [state-led] violence), Nigeria (terrorism), Philippines (one-sided violence [terrorism]), South Sudan (fragile), and Syria (non-state-based and state-based violence).</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Data is collected from the content of </b><b>open-source reports,</b> both official (government and inter-governmental) and unofficial (non-governmental and media) following guidance of the Office of the ICC Prosecutor (2014: 22) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (<a href="" target="_blank">OHCHR 2014</a>a) on the sources of information that may be taken into account and designated as official (government and international organization reports) versus unofficial (media and civil society or non-government organization reports) when building a profile of SGBV reports.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>A report is coded when at least one listed SGBV crime is mentioned</b>. Two sources were used to collect reports: the UN document reference site UNHCR RefWorld; and Factiva, a DowJones news aggregator site. We specifically code a report in RefWorld when any of the words ‘rape raping raped rapes gender sexual’ were mentioned and in Factiva with the code work ‘sex crimes’.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p>