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What's ConflictMap?
This site aims to help shed light on wars and other armed conflicts around the globe. It contains summary information, links to more resources, and, most importantly, continuously updated lists of relevant news articles. We hope to make it easier to learn where wars are happening, who's involved, and what's going on right now, especially for smaller conflicts that may not be well covered in large media outlets. For those with a specific interest in conflicts, we hope to make it easier to follow the large volume of news in this field.
What do all the icons mean?
Each conflict is represented by an icon consisting of a sword and a newspaper.
Color
The color indicates whether there is significantly more, significantly less, or about the same amount of news as usual.
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Sword
The sword component of the icon comes in three sizes, indicating a crude manual estimate of the conflict's severity (See methodology):
Newspaper
The newspaper component also comes in three sizes, indicating, the relative volume of news about the conflict, as compared with all others tracked by ConflictMap.org:
Methodology
For comments on the methodology, other questions, and any other suggestions, we'd love to hear from you at .
What's a conflict?
Sometimes the line is blurry - for example, we have chosen not to gather information around gang violence in Rio de Janeiro, whereas oil-bunkering gangs are instrumental in the Niger Delta, which we do consider a conflict. We have chosen to focus on situations where armed violence is ongoing, or at least sporadic, and the sides are fighting over something - for example, a group seeking to gain autonomy for a region, as opposed to an armed gang fighting police. At some level, we have made decisions subjectively - Transnistria is listed as a conflict, while the Koreas are not. We are very open to suggestions as to how to impose rigorous criteria for this.
What's news?
We collect and display articles from over 250 online news sources. If there's an important source that we're missing, we'd love to hear from you.
In most cases, we have not chosen sources that are obviously propaganda. However, some of the sources may not adhere to the highest journalist standards. If you see blatant propaganda coming into our system, please let us know.
Conflict severity
We have made rough estimates of the severity of each conflict, based on the number of displaced people and the level of violence. These are provisional only, and subject to change as their severities change.
Who we are
ConflictMap.org was begun in 2007 by Braxton Robbason, a co-founder of BuzzMetrics, now Nielsen BuzzMetrics. If you are excited about this site, and wish to help, please drop us an email at .
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