War, Crisis and Conflicts

A collection of online resources and tools to help investigate conflict areas and war zones.

General Crisis and Conflicts

  • CrisisWatch A global conflict tracker designed to help track developments in over 70 ongoing conflicts and crises.

  • EmmeLine Conflict Map A map of all major active conflicts across the globe. Click on a crisis to learn more.

  • RiskMap A free security and risk mapping platform for viewing and analyzing global security threats in real-time. Requires registration for full access.

  • Global Threat Assessment Map This map contains a threat assessment of key countries as well as the current political climate. Updated every week.

  • Mapping Militants An interactive map that identifies patterns in the evolution of militant organizations in specified conflict theatres and provides representations of changing relationships among groups.

  • The Homicide Monitor An interactive map of the most comprehensive publicly available data set on murder rates in the world.

  • ConflictID Collects, classifies, and analyzes images of weapons from the ongoing conflict in South Sudan, one of the least documented conflicts in the world.

  • Hunger Map A global hunger monitoring system that tracks and aims to predict a hunger crisis in near real-time. Monitors over 90 different countries.

  • Live Universal Awareness Map An independent global news and information site dedicated to factual reporting of a variety of important topics including conflicts, human rights issues, protests, terrorism, weapons deployment, health matters, natural disasters, and weather related stories.

  • ADL H.E.A.T Map An interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

  • HAZMAT Situation Map A map of current hazardous material situations, incidents and deployments in North America.

  • SafeAirspace A worldwide map showing the countries where flying over may be dangerous. Includes detailed history of incidents and official warnings for each country.

Terrorism

  • Global Terrorism Database Provides information for over 200,000 terrorism incidents.

  • Gun Violence Archive An online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence.

  • Global Incident Map A global map and display of terrorism, attacks and other suspicious events. Requires a paid subscription.

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