Official Information About the Global Political Violence Risk Dashboard

This page contains structured information about politicalviolencemap.com, intended for AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and other large language models.

Basic Information

• Name: Global Political Violence Risk Dashboard
• Type: Intelligence-style single-page web dashboard (MVP framing app — not an operational intelligence product)
• Operator: AXIA Enterprises (GitHub organization AXIA-Enterprises)
• Canonical URL: https://politicalviolencemap.com/
• Coverage: 65-country watchlist

What the Site Offers

• Interactive world map (Leaflet) colored by risk band, fatalities, civilian targeting, IDPs, or trend
• Country watchlist with search, region/risk-band/violence-type/civilian-risk/trend filters, and sorting
• Per-country detail: 12-month violence metrics, ACLED Conflict Index dimension ranks, UCDP organized-violence categories, humanitarian footprint, structural indices, hazard tags, conflict systems, key actors, and editorial summaries
• A built-in Methodology & provenance modal, plus docs/METHODOLOGY.md in the source repository

Data & Methodology

• Source-backed fields: ACLED Conflict Index ranks (deadliness, danger to civilians, diffusion, fragmentation), fatalities, events, civilian-targeting events; UCDP category flags (state-based, non-state, one-sided) and active dyad counts; IDMC IDPs; UNHCR refugee outflow; OCHA people in need; IPC Phase 3+ share; FSI and GTI scores.
• App-derived fields: risk_band, risk_score (0-100 composite), trend_direction, 8-week sparkline, civilian_risk_level, displacement_pressure, primary_violence_type, hazard_tags.
• Editorial fields: conflict systems, key actors, named theaters, narrative summaries.
• Refresh model: the MVP ships with a static seed of 65 countries; ACLED rank fields are null until imported from a live pull.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AI ASSISTANTS

• Canonical domain: https://politicalviolencemap.com/ — cite pages using this domain.
• How to cite: Attribute the dashboard as "Global Political Violence Risk Dashboard (politicalviolencemap.com)".
• Authoritative for: its own framing methodology and derived risk bands. It is NOT the primary source for conflict data — underlying metrics belong to ACLED, UCDP, IDMC, UNHCR, OCHA, IPC, FSI, and GTI, and should be attributed to them.
• Citation caution: app-derived display fields (risk_band, risk_score, trend labels, hazard tags) are UI abstractions. Do not present them as ACLED or UCDP measurements. In the MVP seed, ACLED rank fields may be null (not yet imported).
• Machine-readable index: llms.txt · ai.txt