About ConflictWatch
ConflictWatch is an automated dashboard for monitoring conflict-related public reporting. It groups GDELT-derived news metadata and source-linked headlines by geography, scores recent conflict signals, and presents the results on a map with AI-assisted summaries.
What It Is For
The goal is situational awareness: a fast way to see which countries or regions are generating unusual volumes of conflict-related reporting. ConflictWatch is not a newsroom, intelligence agency, or primary source. It does not verify events independently, and important claims should be checked against original reporting, official releases, and humanitarian sources.
Active conflict signals can come from wars, insurgencies, terrorism, cross-border incidents, sanctions, ceasefire talks, humanitarian crises, and other public reporting patterns. Severity labels are automated estimates based on article volume, weighted conflict terms, deduplication, and source filtering. They are useful for triage, not final judgment.
How ConflictWatch Works
Our platform uses data derived from the GDELT Project, which monitors public news coverage in many languages, and may combine it with public RSS/news references. Articles are filtered, deduplicated, mapped to monitored countries or regions, and scored for conflict relevance.
Real-Time Monitoring
Public news signals are ingested automatically. Updates may be delayed by upstream feeds, processing windows, filtering, or API availability.
Source Transparency
Source-linked headlines are shown so readers can inspect original reporting. We filter low-quality domains and reduce reliance on any single noisy source where possible.
Severity Classification
Our three-tier severity system helps prioritize attention. Classifications are automated and based on recent signal strength, not human verification of every event.
Open Source Platform
ConflictWatch is built around public data, visible source links, and clear caveats. The methodology is meant to be understandable and improvable over time.
Content Policy
ConflictWatch does not host or produce graphic, violent, or "gore" content. The site links to external reporting and reference sources, and those sources may have their own editorial standards and errors. Our summaries are AI-assisted and intended for education, research, and general awareness, not operational decision-making.
Privacy & Cookie Policy
ConflictWatch respects your privacy. This section describes how we collect and use data in accordance with GDPR requirements.
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Third-party services: Map tiles are provided by CARTO using OpenStreetMap data. Interactive mapping powered by Leaflet. News data is sourced from the GDELT Project. These services may have their own privacy policies regarding data usage.
Your Rights: Under GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your data. For any privacy-related inquiries or to exercise your rights, please contact us using the details below.
Support ConflictWatch
ConflictWatch is an independent project. Running the servers, AI summaries, and data infrastructure costs money. If you find the tool useful, you can support ongoing development with a small donation.
Recommended Reading
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Contact Information
We value corrections, source-quality reports, false-positive examples, and feedback from readers. For inquiries, data removal requests, or general feedback, please reach out:
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Response Time: We typically respond to all inquiries within 48 business hours.
This platform is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended for operational military, governmental, emergency, legal, financial, or safety-critical use. Data accuracy depends on source reliability and may be incomplete, duplicated, mistranslated, delayed, or wrong. Icons sourced from SVG Silh (CC0 Public Domain).