Sooyeon Kang is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies (The Ohio State University) and a non-resident Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights (Harvard Kennedy School). She received her doctorate from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies (University of Denver) and was a 2020-2021 Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace as well as a 2020-2021 Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Her research interests include mass mobilization, political violence, political psychology, and all things North Korea. Her work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Monkey Cage, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Political Violence at a Glance. She holds an MA in International Affairs from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a BA in Government and Psychology from Dartmouth College.
When it comes to quantitative data in conflict studies, standards for collection, reliability, ethics, and usage remain behind the curve. We discuss five things that scholars can do to address these gaps.