“ACLED collects real-time data on the locations, dates, actors, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America & the Caribbean, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia & the Caucasus, Europe, and the United States of America. […] The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.” (Source: ACLED)
“The Conflict Barometer contains in-depth analysis of political conflict dynamics worldwide, including violent as well as non-violent conflicts. […] The Heidelberg methodology makes political conflicts globally comparable. The report is completed by conflict maps and graphs as well as accounts of conflict resolution. Moreover, spotlight articles analyse specific conflict dimensions and their influence on political realities.” (Source: HIIK)
“The ACLED Conflict Pulse model predicts whether or not there will be an increase in the number of events for a given actor and event type as compared to the previous week, basing this prediction off of a number of factors. Certain event types can be more reliably predicted for certain actors, relative to looking at aggregate activity at large.” (Source: ACLED)
CORRELATES OF WAR PROJECT
by J. David Singer (Founder)
“The original and continuing goal of the project has been the systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war.[…] Accordingly, early efforts were undertaken to measure many of those factors that purportedly accounted for war such as national capability, alliances, geography, polarity, and status in the post-Napoleonic period, and the list of data sets assembled by the project has continued to grow over the years. In addition to the collection of data, the project has conducted many empirical studies about war and conflict.” (Source: Correlates of War Project)
“The Frontline Freelance Register (FFR) is a representative body for freelance journalists, created for and run by freelancers. […] As a membership association, FFR is open to international freelance journalists who are exposed to risk in their work and who adhere to its Code of Conduct. FFR provides its members with a sense of community while championing their safety and professional practice.” (Source: Frontline Freelance Register)
“Image Atlas investigates cultural differences and similarities by indexing top image results for given search terms across local engines throughout the world.” (Source: Image Atlas)
“The Mapping Militants Project traces the evolution of militant organizations and the interactions that develop among them over time. Findings are presented in interactive “maps,” which provide both (1) visual representations of how relationships among militant organizations change over time and (2) links to in-depth profiles of individual groups. The project provides uniquely accessible and clear genealogical information about violent extremist organizations.” (Source: Center for International Security and Cooperation)
MASS MOBILIZATION PROJECT
by David H. Clark and Patrick M. Regan
“The Mass Mobilization (MM) data are an effort to understand citizen movements against governments, what citizens want when they demonstrate against governments, and how governments respond to citizens. The MM data cover 162 countries between 1990 and 2018.” (Source: Mass Mobilization Project)
“SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources.” (Source: SIPRI)
SIPRI databases include arms transfers, information on the 100 largest arms-producing and military service companies, multilateral peace operations and military expenditure.
“The Small Arms Survey generates evidence-based, impartial, and policy-relevant knowledge and analysis on small arms and armed violence issues for governments, policy-makers, researchers, and civil society.” (Source: Small Arms Survey)
UPPSALA CONFLICT DATA PROGRAM
by the Departement of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University
“The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) is the world’s main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years. Its definition of armed conflict has become the global standard of how conflicts are systematically defined and studied.” (Source: UCDP)