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Peter Wallensteen

UCDP founder — peace research · Sweden

Affiliated with Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)

Academic — peer-reviewed

Founder of UCDP; senior adviser emeritus on conflict-data methodology.

Financing

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Money source

University emeritus status; advisory role.

Institutional alignment

Uppsala University; Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation affiliations.

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Disclosures & conflicts

Founder-adviser role is methodological, not operational coding of current Gaza statistics day to day.

Credibility & caveats

Foundational authority on conflict-data standards used globally.

How this source is used

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