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Magnus Öberg

UCDP director — conflict data · Sweden

Affiliated with Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)

Academic — peer-reviewed

Director of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program since 2018; oversees battle-death and organized-violence coding.

Funding & financing

Swedish Research Council and Uppsala University grants.

Affiliations

Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research.

Disclosures & conflicts

UCDP counts organized violence deaths — not legal genocide findings. Gaza data lag and definitional thresholds (25+ battle deaths) differ from humanitarian fatality totals.

Credibility & caveats

Gold-standard fatality and conflict-event statistics with transparent coding rules.

Cases in this record

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Sources & disclosures