The Violence & Impacts
Early-Warning System
We deliver scalable, data-driven tools to empower decision-makers and humanitarian actors in early and anticipatory action.
Latest Updates
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2023
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Posted on 30 Sep 2024
Welcoming four new members to our team
We are thrilled to welcome four new members of staff this fall; three based at Uppsala University, and one at PRIO in Oslo. Anna Wadén and Bruno Goebel were the first to join us earlier this month. They are both undertaking a five-month internship with VIEWS as part of their master’s program in Peace and…
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Posted on 27 Sep 2024
Join us at PRIO AI Days from 15-16 October 2024!
Join members of the VIEWS team from October 15th to 16th at PRIO for the upcoming PRIO AI Days, a series of public seminars on the impact of artificial intelligence. Over the span of two days seven distinct events focused on varying aspects of AI and peace from key concepts of interpretability and explainability to…
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Posted on 27 Sep 2024
CCEW SYMPOSIUM 2024
Several members and friends of the VIEWS team participated in the symposium organised by The Center for Crisis Early Warning (CCEW) at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. Simon Polichinel von Der Maase (PRIO) presented “Mapping Conflict Dynamics – A Gaussian Process Approach to Estimating Temporal and Spatial Trends”, David Randahl (Uppsala University) presented “Forecasting Fatalities…
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Posted on 23 Sep 2024
VIEWS receives ‘Special Distinction for the Use of AI for Peace’ at the 2024 Kluz Prize for PeaceTech awards
The Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System (VIEWS) was awarded a Special Distinction for the Use of AI for Peace at the 2024 Kluz Prize for PeaceTech award ceremony in New York City on September 20th. The annual awards celebrate groundbreaking achievements in PeaceTech, selected by a distinguished jury of experts and leaders from the tech sector,…
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Posted on 30 Aug 2024
Meet VIEWS at APSA
Next week the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) 120th Annual Meeting and Exhibition is taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many VIEWS members will attend and present. We want to especially highlight the panels “Political Forecasting Methods: Challenges and Potential Solutions” at 12:00 on Saturday, “Political Psychology in the Wake of Violence” at 12:00 on Thursday,…
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Posted on 30 Aug 2024
Is the world becoming more unhinged? Seminar at Arendalsuka
Senior researcher and deputy director of VIEWS Paola Vesco participated in a seminar during Arendalsuka, the annual largest political gathering in Norway. Together with several PRIO researchers and the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the panel discussed critical trends towards a more dangerous world and explored how to navigate and resolve current…
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Posted on 2 Aug 2024
“No Security Without Media Freedom” panel: Director Håvard Hegre highlights media’s role in global peace
Director Håvard Hegre was invited by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a prominent expert to discuss the findings of the latest report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFom) in Vienna at the high-level “No Security Without Media Freedom Panel”. The report highlights the critical role of…
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What we Offer
Conflict forecasts
We provide open-access, monthly forecasts of armed conflicts worldwide at both country and sub-national levels, capturing the likelihood, extent and severity of future violence over the next 1-36 months.
impact assessments
We estimate the impact of future conflict events on affected populations, allowing decision-makers and humanitarian actors to stay ahead of emerging crises.
Research infrastructure
We provide an open-access, cutting-edge MLOps pipeline for near real-time forecasting, ensuring robust and reliant service for use across the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus.
Interesting in powering your models on our platform, or incorporating them into the VIEWS EWS? Let’s talk!
global partnerships
We collaborate with leading research institutes, IGOs, INGOs and governments, to develop innovative forecasting solutions that enhance decision-making and empower humanitarian actors to stay ahead of emerging crises.
Schedule a call to learn more on how we assist you and your organization.
Acknowledgements
Host institutions, funding agencies, and partners
VIEWS is co-hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and Peace Research Institute Oslo. The research presented on this website is the outcome of projects that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 694640, ViEWS) and Horizon Europe (Grant agreement No. 101055176, ANTICIPATE; and 101069312, ViEWS (ERC-2022-POC1)), Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Grant agreement No. M21-0002, Societies at Risk), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ViEWS-ESCWA), the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (GSRA – Forecasting Fatalities in Armed Conflict), the Swedish Research Council (DEMSCORE), the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA Geopolitics), the Norwegian MFA (Conflict Trends QZA-18/0227), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the Sahel Predictive Analytics project and Global Mapping of Forecasting Systems), the Norwegian Research Council (UFFAC), and the Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d, VIEWS-PIN).
