An information tool based on open sources. It never replaces your organisation's security plan and instructions, nor NGO security forums.
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Get alerts for my areas
Choose your regions in the table, then how to receive alerts. You get an alert when the press reports a kidnapping, an explosion or an attack in one of your regions, plus a weekly update. Free for all members.
Method and sources
Organised violence: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset (Uppsala University, CC BY 4.0 licence), published monthly with about a one-month delay. Events in which armed forces or armed groups caused at least one death.
Press reports: the GDELT Project (open data), which automatically codes news articles from around the world. We count distinct articles per region and per day in four categories: kidnappings and hostage-taking, explosions and explosive devices, attacks on people, armed clashes.
Violent activity index: UCDP events + weighted press reports (kidnappings and explosives count double, each article counts as one third). It compares regions within a country; it is not an absolute measure of risk.
What we do not publish: no precise location, no victim names, no confidential data. Only figures per region and per month.