Conflict catalog

The Conflict Catalog is a dataset designed for the purpose of making a conflict taxonomy that is comprehensive in terms of the types of conflicts included and extensive in terms of encompassing conflicts in all regions of the world since 1400 AD.

First read: preview – what do we have?

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It should help you get the general idea of what this chart is about and the information it contains.
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Introduction

The past was not peaceful.
Human history has been a story of conquest as much as it has been a story of peace.
But many people have the idea that human history only became more violent recently.
One reason why some people might have this impression is that people alive today don't remember these conflicts.
They are simply forgotten.
We also have incomplete information to help remind us.
Our data about historical conflicts is not perfectly accurate, but we do have some evidence that helps us estimate the number of fatalities.
The visualizations below will give you a sense of these estimates.

More wars or more peace?

Chart 1 seems to indicate that wars have become less common over time.
But is that the whole story, or is it more complicated.
To understand the role of conflict today relative to wars of the past, we can look at long-term data.
Chart 2 shows deaths from global conflicts over the past 600 years or so, beginning around 1400.
This helps us better understand whether humanity is trending toward more or fewer conflicts, and more-deadly or less-deadly wars.
The x-axis of this chart represents time, from about 1400 CE to the present.
The y-axis represents the number of people killed in war per 100,000 people in the world.

Overview

The past was not peaceful.
Is there more violent conflict today than in the past.
Is war becoming deadlier.
The data is more complicated than you might think.

Second read: key ideas – what do we know?

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Third read: making connections – what does this tell us?

The third reading is really about why the chart is important and what it can tell us about the past and help us think about the future.
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War and Peace Data Introduction

By Max Roser, adapted by Eman M.
Elshaikh

1945 film with Humphrey Bogart directed by Curtis Bernhardt

Conflict is a 1945 American black-and-white suspense film noir made by Warner Brothers.
It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt, produced by William Jacobs from a screenplay by Arthur T.
Horman and Dwight Taylor, based on the story The Pentacle by Alfred Neumann and Robert Siodmak.
It starred Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, and Sydney Greenstreet.
The film is the only pairing of Bogart and Greenstreet of the five in which they acted together where Bogart rather than Greenstreet is the villain or corrupt character.
There is also a cameo appearance of the Maltese Falcon statue.

Military conflict below the intensity of conventional war

A low-intensity conflict (LIC) is a military conflict, usually localised, between two or more state or non-state groups which is below the intensity of conventional war.
It involves the state's use of military forces applied selectively and with restraint to enforce compliance with its policies or objectives.

Publications of the Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Catalog is a series of books published by the Jewish Publication Society in three volumes, which had a significant cultural impact upon the Chavurah movement of Judaism, and in the broader Jewish world, and were said to be the most widely read books in the Jewish counter-culture, with total book sales of the series being more than half a million copies.