A public map of news-reported conflict events worldwide, built from the GDELT 2.0 event feed and filterable by region, conflict type and date.
Event: One GDELT row: a single action between actors, machine-coded from a news article, with a date and a location. A news report of something, not a verified incident. Avoid: incident, attack, report
Conflict type: One of the 7 top-level CAMEO categories from 14 (Protest) to 20 (Mass violence) that Flashpoint keeps. Avoid: category, event class
Major event: An event in a violent category (assault, fight, mass violence, violent protest or violent repression) that at least 2 news sources reported. The site's default view; on the map, each source article appears once, as its most-reported event. Avoid: important event, significant event, verified event
Location precision: How exactly GDELT placed an event: city, province, or only the country's centre point. Avoid: accuracy, geo type
Country:
A country as GDELT identifies it, by its FIPS code (for example SU for Sudan), linked to its ISO code and name.
Avoid: nation
Region: One of the 7 World Bank world regions that countries are grouped into. Avoid: area, zone, admin1
Surge: A country whose event count in the last 7 days is statistically unusual compared with its baseline. Avoid: spike, hotspot, trend
Baseline: A country's typical daily event count, and how much it varies, over the 3 weeks before the current 7 days. Avoid: normal, average
Replay: Playing back stored events day by day on the globe to show how a situation developed. Avoid: animation, timelapse, playback
Episode: A named, ready-made stretch of history that can be replayed, such as the first weeks of a war. Avoid: scenario, preset, case study
Ingest run: One execution of the job that fetches the newest GDELT file and stores its conflict events. Avoid: sync, import, crawl
Retention window: How many days of events are kept before the oldest are deleted (35). Avoid: history limit, TTL