Sources

Sources and credits

Updated October 2026

Every figure on this site is derived from the sources below. Counts and findings are Conflict Gauge's own; the CSVs hold derived counts, not source rows.

Events

Contains data from the GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/).

Source: UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset. Davies, Pettersson and Oberg, "Organized violence 1989-2025, and violent political protests", Journal of Peace Research, 2026; Sundberg and Melander (2013), Journal of Peace Research 50(4). CC BY 4.0. Adapted by MergeSeat.

Public reporting by news outlets and official channels, cited by outlet, date and link where a finding refers to it; no article or message text is reproduced. Source: U.S. Department of Defense (war.gov), public domain. Source: U.S. Central Command (centcom.mil). Radio Farda (RFE/RL).

Aircraft

Aircraft data: adsb.lol, available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0).

Shipping

Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Source: IMF DataMapper (imf.org/external/datamapper), (c) IMF.

Markets and economy

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This product uses the FRED API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. Adapted by MergeSeat.

Fires and thermal anomalies

We acknowledge the use of data and imagery from NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/firms), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).

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