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ViEWSPREDICTING CONFLICT
ViEWS: a political Violence Early Warning SystemPresentation to the SIWI World Water Week
Håvard Hegre1
1Department of Peace and Conflict ResearchUppsala University
29 August 2019https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022343319823860
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ViEWSPREDICTING CONFLICT
ViEWS Forecasting task
The forecasting task in ViEWS
Forecast incidence of organizedpolitical violence
Onset, continuation,deescalation
36 months into the future
Monthly updates
All UCDP forms of violence:
1 state-based armed conflict
2 one-sided violence
3 non-state conflict
Maximal transparency
Forecasts, one-sided violence, August 2019
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ViEWSPREDICTING CONFLICT
Current predictions Geographic level
Current predictions and predictors, geographic level
Ensembles combining themes:
Conflict history
Natural geography (vegetation,resources)
Social geography (populationdensity, remoteness, borders)
Country-level factors
Conflict historyDemographics (size, poverty)Economics (growth, oil)Political institutions
New from October 2019, i.a.:
Droughts
Crisis Watch alerts
Military coups
Forecasts, state-based conflict, August 2019
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ViEWSPREDICTING CONFLICT
Current predictions Changes in predictions
Change in predictions from July 2019 to August 2019, sb
Increased risk (red) in i.a.
Egypt
Liberia
Madagascar
Reduced risk (blue) in i.a.
Ethiopia
Cameroon
Kenya4 / 4
ViEWSForecasting task
Current predictionsGeographic levelChanges in predictions