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Real-time conflict-event dataset (nonprofit) · USA (501(c)(3)) · est. 2005 (Clionadh Raleigh)

Government-funded research

Event-level political-violence and fatality data across 240+ countries, updated in near real-time. Powers the US State Department's Instability Monitoring platform.

Financing

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Money source

Primarily the UN-managed Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF'd), with contributions from the US State Department (CSO), USAID, and the Dutch, German, UK, and EU governments; also Open Society Foundations, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and Tableau Foundation.

Institutional alignment

Independent nonprofit, but substantially financed by Western governments and used widely by the US and Canadian governments.

Financing is shown to help readers weigh incentives and constraints. It is not a finding that the source is truthful or false.

Credibility & caveats

Gold-standard granularity and source transparency. Media-based coding can over- or under-report depending on press access, and its heavy Western-government funding is a transparency consideration readers should weigh.

Membership & leadership

A registered nonprofit with no public membership. Leadership (CEO/president and department heads) are executive staff. A global network of researchers and partners contribute data under contract or collaboration — they do not elect leadership or vote on publications.

Leadership & members

Named individuals reflect leadership at the time of writing; linked names have individual profiles in this record. See membership & leadership above for how they are selected.

People profiled in this record

How this source is used

This profile is used to weigh publishers, investigators, officials, or source material cited inside case evidence. It may not itself issue a genocide determination for a case. See the methodology for the source-weighting rules.

Sources & disclosures