Global Conflict Studies

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consulting activities. The CSS promotes understanding of security policy challenges as a contribution to a more peaceful world. Its work is independent, practice-​relevant, and based on a sound academic footing.

From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, this site discusses methods and tactics, foreign terrorist groups, and includes a timeline of events.

Current conflicts and data compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations.

CrisisWatch is a global conflict tracker, a tool designed to help decision-makers prevent deadly violence by keeping them up-to-date with developments in over 70 conflicts and crises, identifying trends and alerting them to risks of escalation and opportunities to advance peace. Country entries dating back to 2003 provide easily searchable conflict histories.

The MAR Project. The Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project is a university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000.

The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project is a multi-level data collection effort that catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2013.

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) has recorded ongoing violent conflicts since the 1970s. The data provided is one of the most accurate and well-used data-sources on global armed conflicts and its definition of armed conflict is becoming a standard in how conflicts are systematically defined and studied.

The RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents (RDWTI) is a compilation of data from 1968 through 2009.

The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is a nonpartisan network of 110+ organizations working in 153 countries to end conflict, reduce violence, and build sustainable peace. Freely accessible Reports and Briefs within the peacebuilding field.

The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching, and consulting activities. The CSS promotes understanding of security policy challenges as a contribution to a more peaceful world. Its work is independent, practice-​relevant, and based on a sound academic footing

A Network of People Building Peace. The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) is a member-led network of civil society organisations (CSOs) active in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding across the world.

The Institute for Economics and Peace is the world’s leading think tank dedicated to developing metrics to analyse peace and to quantify its economic value. It does this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analysing country level risk and understanding positive peace. Under Reports heading, see Global Terrorism Index as well as Global Peace Index.

The International Peace Institute (IPI) is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic analysis, publishing, and convening.

The PAM database is a unique source of qualitative and quantitative longitudinal data on the implementation of 34 Comprehensive Peace Agreements (CPAs) negotiated between 1989 and 2012.

An independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts.

Includes approximately 800 documents that broadly qualify as peace agreements and also contains their related materials. Users can access the full texts of the agreements in different languages and can use different criteria to search for them.

An extensive listing and access to CRS reports on terrorism.

The Institute for Economics and Peace is the world’s leading think tank dedicated to developing metrics to analyse peace and to quantify its economic value. It does this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analysing country level risk and understanding positive peace. Under Reports heading, see Global Terrorism Index as well as Global Peace Index.

Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse's (TRAC) website of reports all related to terrorism.

This is a report published by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) discusses the continued and growing threat of terror attacks against the aviation industry.

Annual military expenditures, arms transfers, armed forces, selected economic data, and relative indicators consisting of pertinent military-economic ratios. ARCHIVAL1964-2016 with some years not reported.

Participants of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Building Resilient Communities’ Digital Media Literacy and Critical Thinking online course will learn about how the process of radicalization works and critically evaluate several examples of extremist messaging. Then, participants will learn to break down the problematic assumptions, data, or logic of those messages by understanding how they work on audiences. With this knowledge, participants can develop strategies within their own communities to increase awareness of how misinformation works as well as resilience to potential radicalization to violence.

Conflict Barometer 2020- downloadable report as well as static maps and datasets located under Data & Maps section.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative protects lives, the environment and our quality of life now and for future generations. Every day, we work to prevent catastrophic attacks with weapons of mass destruction and disruption—nuclear, biological, radiological, chemical and cyber.

Offers statistical data on countries in a number of areas, including climate change, economics, education, finance, health, poverty, etc.

This Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) site provides information on the history, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues for 267 world entities.