Data Review
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Review of Chenoweth et al. (2019): Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) data project
Version 1.0, published: May 4, 2025.
Description
The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project is a project by the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, that codes both violent and non-violent maximalist campaigns around the globe from 1900-2019. It includes three different datasets (and their previous versions). This review will focus on the latest version of each dataset: the NAVCO 1.3 dataset which analyses campaigns as a whole, the NAVCO 2.1 dataset which disaggregates campaigns at the annual level, and the NAVCO 3.0 dataset which reports daily resistance events (5).
The NAVCO 1.3 dataset includes 48 Discuss Data relevant entries spanning 13 different countries, while the NAVCO 2.1 dataset lists 108 entries (30 campaigns) for the same number of countries. The NAVCO 3.0 dataset on the other hand only covers Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The last one of which is not included in either of the other two datasets. As of summer 2024, it is not clear whether work on the data collection for the NAVCO 1.0 or NAVCO 2.0 series is continuing. However, no further versions in the 3.0 series are expected at this time (5).
The data review includes a link to the official NAVCO data project website as well as a link to the Harvard Dataverse where both the data and explanatory codebooks are available for download.
Countries
Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Estonia Georgia Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Moldova Other Russia Tajikistan Ukraine Uzbekistan
Keywords
Protests Violent Non-Violent Campaigns Maximalist Regime Change Anti-Occupation Self-Determination Success Failure