About the Armed Conflict Database

The IISS Armed Conflict Database (ACD) is an authoritative online source of data and provides independent analysis on current and recent conflicts.

Features

• Contains the latest information on all conflicts, including political developments, military trends and the types of weapons being used.

• Details on the parties involved, and analysis on the human security – including fatality and refugee numbers.

• The ACD provides an historical background, event timeline and annual assessment, for each conflict.

• A list of selected non-state armed groups, their estimated strength, origin, political or ideological aims, and areas of operation is also included.

Functions

• The user can browse through the different year-on-year reports and fact sheets online.

• The user can generate targeted reports on conflict data back to 1997 and correlate reports from various years, conflicts, regions and topics.

• The database is updated with regular reports and weekly timelines.

Ongoing conflicts monitored: