TRACKING & MAPS

Airwars, a not-for-profit watchdog that tracks, assesses, archives and investigates civilian harm claims resulting primarily from explosive weapons use in conflict-affected nations including Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen; leading authority on conflict violence that has monitored more than 30 belligerents across six conflict countries & to date tracked almost 60,000 locally alleged civilian deaths.

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)
A data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project (ongoing) of reported political violence and protest events globally, with comprehensive maps & data visualization.

Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research
World’s main provider of data (with interactive, geographic visualization) on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war (1975-2021). Its definition of armed conflict has become the global standard of how conflicts are systematically defined and studied.

17 Maps of U.S. Military Bases Abroad from "Base Nation", (David Vine), David Vine website

Global Bootprints, (Peter Wall), Geographical Imaginations
4 January 2019, short web article on global conflict & US military mapping.