Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT): The GDELT Project is one of the largest worldwide open databases available and contains over a quarter-billion records organized into a set of tab-delimited files by date. It incorporates local media reports as well as international sources worldwide about events, and can be used to explore the frequency and concentration of violent events and protests over the past week as reported in the news media. Clicking on a particular location will display the articles associated with violence and protests in that area, along with a link to execute a Google query on the location. This visualization displays the past 7 days of data.

Armed Conflict Location and Events Database (ACLED): ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) captures political violence data for developing states, specifically in Africa. This data and analysis project produces information on the specific dates and locations of political violence, the type of event, the groups involved, fatalities, and changes in territorial control. Information is recorded on the battles, killings, riots, and recruitment activities of rebels, governments, militias, armed groups, protesters and civilians. This visualization diaplys ACLED data for the past 7 weeks.

This visualization displays a range of indicators of state fragility for 167 countries worldwide between 2000-2015. Use it to explore and compare indicators of country risk, state legitimacy, corruption, economic risk, political violence, internet penetration, and physical security of women between countries and over time. All indicators are on a scale of 1-100, with red representing the highest level of fragility for each indicator. 

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State Fragility Index: Provides annual state fragility, effectiveness, and legitimacy indices and the eight component indicators for the world's 167 countries with populations greater than 500,000 from 1995-2014. According to this dataset, the higher the score, the more fragile the country.

Control of Corruption, Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI): Captures perceptions of the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as "capture" of the state by elites and private interests. It includes data from 1996-2014.

Physical Security of Women, WomanStats.org: Represented by a combination of indicators of health and violence against women, including Rape and Sexual Assault, Familial Sexual Assault (Marital Rape/Incest), Suicide Rates of Women of Childbearing Age, Murder/Attack Rates; Women of Childbearing Age, Sex Trafficking of Females and Related Practices, Labor/Domestic Servant Trafficking/Migration, and Unspecified Violence Against Women.

Internet Penetration, International Telecommunications Union (ITU): Indicates the percentage of individuals using the internet, including fixed- and mobile-broadband subscription data.