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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.

Financing

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Money source

Swedish Research Council and Uppsala University grants.

Institutional alignment

Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research.

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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.

How this source is used

This profile is used to weigh publishers, investigators, officials, or source material cited inside case evidence. It may not itself issue a genocide determination for a case. See the methodology for the source-weighting rules.

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