Project Archive
Concluded research projects and collaborations within the VIEWS consortium
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Jan 2017 – Dec 2021
ERC: The Violence Early-Warning System
VIEWS began as a pioneering research initiative to address a pressing global need: early, reliable, and actionable forecasts of political violence. The pilot project – then known as the political Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS) – ran from 2017-2021, laying the technical and methodological groundwork for the system’s current operational form.
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Apr 2021 – Mar 2022
UK FCDO: Forecasting fatalities
“Forecasting fatalities in armed conflict” was a 2021-2022 research project funded with UK Aid from the GRSA fund at the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO). It expanded the VIEWS system to predicting fatalities in armed conflict.
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Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
UNHCR: Sahel Predictive Analytics Project
The Sahel PA project doubles down on the special challenges facing the Sahel across the triple nexus of humanitarian aid, peace-building and development with the aim of guiding decision-makers by anticipating and quickly identifying where multiple risks overlap to allow for better preparedness and to support context analysis, planning, training, and capacity-building, while also outlining…
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Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
UNHCR: Global Mapping of Forecasting Systems
Commission research to conduct a systematic review of operational early-warning systems for armed conflict and natural hazards, followed by a roadmap for the development of a bespoke UNHCR EWS for forced displacement.
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Sep 2022 – Feb 2024
ERC: ViEWS Proof of Concept
Funded by an ERC Proof-of-Concept grant, this project aimed to explore and enhance the societal relevance of ViEWS’ global and subnational conflict forecasts.
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Jan 2020 – Dec 2022
ESCWA: The ViEWS-ESCWA Collaboration
A 2020-2022 collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Council for West Asia (ESCWA), through which we developed a new forecasting model under the ViEWS2 infrastructure that incorporates data of particular importance to the Arab states. Built as an expansion of the standard ViEWS set-up, the model covers all of Africa and the Middle…