ABOUT WOR
World On Record — Conflict intelligence for the planet.
WHAT IS WOR
WOR — World On Record — is a real-time global conflict intelligence platform that tracks every active war and armed conflict on the planet. It is built for anyone who needs to understand what is actually happening in the world — not just the loudest headline of the day, but the full picture: severity, human cost, displacement, and how each conflict ripples outward across economies, trade routes, and diplomatic relationships.
Most news platforms cover conflict reactively — they report when something dramatic happens, then move on. WOR is different. It maintains a live, continuously updated intelligence feed for every active conflict simultaneously, so you can track the situation in Sudan on the same day you track Ukraine, Gaza, and Myanmar — without having to piece it together from a dozen different sources.
WOR was built as a personal project — started from scratch with one goal: to make the state of global conflict legible, evidence-based, and accessible to anyone who wants to understand it.
WHO IT IS FOR
WOR is built for people who need more than a headline. Journalists verifying whether a situation is escalating. Policy analysts tracking regional stability. NGO workers understanding displacement pressures before deploying resources. Investors and businesses assessing geopolitical risk to supply chains. Researchers building a picture of a conflict's trajectory. Students studying international relations. Or simply anyone who pays attention to the world and wants a structured, unbiased way to follow it.
You do not need to be an expert to use WOR. The platform is designed to make complex conflict data readable — severity scores tell you at a glance how serious a situation is, conflict profiles give you the background you need, and intelligence dispatches keep you updated on what is changing right now.
HOW IT WORKS
WOR separates what happened from who reported it. The platform's factual record — event counts, casualty and displacement figures, conflict classification — is built on structured data sources and independent research institutes, listed below. Alongside that record, WOR monitors live news coverage every five minutes, around the clock. Headlines are matched to active conflicts, processed for significance, and used to update each conflict's live severity score and latest development.
No single news outlet is treated as authoritative. A development is stated as fact only when it is corroborated by multiple independent outlets or by a structured data source; a claim carried by a single outlet is attributed to that outlet by name.
Each conflict on the platform has a base profile: who the active parties are, when the conflict began, estimated casualties and displacement figures, and which countries are affected and how. This base data is layered with live updates so the profile always reflects the current state of the conflict — not just a historical snapshot.
Intelligence Dispatches are short structured briefs that capture a specific development — a strike, a ceasefire, a displacement surge — with the date, severity change, affected countries, and source citation. They are the live pulse of the platform, filed automatically as significant events are detected.
THE WOR SEVERITY INDEX
Every conflict on WOR carries a severity score from 0 to 10. This is not a subjective rating — it is a composite signal built from eight independently measurable, politically neutral factors:
Airstrikes, shelling, ground offensives, confirmed casualties — the most direct measure of active conflict intensity.
Active ceasefire agreements reduce the score. Ceasefire breakdowns and violations push it higher.
Mass evacuations, border crossings surging, or new displacement orders signal a deteriorating humanitarian situation.
Aid convoys blocked, ICRC or MSF denied entry, or aid workers killed — a direct signal that civilian populations are cut off.
Fighting expanding to new cities, regions, or a second front indicates the conflict is growing in scope.
Each additional country actively deploying forces raises the conflict's complexity and escalation risk.
Hospitals struck, overwhelmed, or forced to close — tracked from WHO, MSF, and field reports.
War crimes investigations opened or UN Security Council emergency sessions called are objective markers of international alarm.
Scores are updated automatically every five minutes as new intelligence arrives. The delta — the small arrow showing whether a conflict is escalating or de-escalating — reflects the most recent signal detected, not a long-term average. A score of 9.0 or above indicates a critical humanitarian emergency. A score of 5.0–7.0 indicates active conflict with significant but not catastrophic impact. Below 5.0 indicates a low-intensity or monitoring situation.
DATA SOURCES
WOR's factual record is built on the following structured sources. No single source is treated as authoritative — where sources contradict each other, WOR presents the most conservative verified figure and notes the discrepancy.
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
Raw data alone does not explain a conflict. WOR cross-references its data against the published analysis of independent research institutes — selected for methodological transparency and independence from any single government. Their assessments inform conflict context and severity checks; no institute's framing is adopted as WOR's own position.
NEWS MONITORING
The outlets below are monitored every five minutes to detect developments as they happen and to inform conflict descriptions. They are inputs, not arbiters. Each carries its own regional perspective and editorial framing — which is precisely why WOR reads them together rather than relying on any one of them. A development is stated plainly only when corroborated by multiple independent outlets or by a data source above; a claim carried by one outlet alone is attributed to that outlet by name.
EDITORIAL STANDARDS
WOR does not take political positions. All conflict parties are named factually — as they are internationally recognised — without editorial judgment on their legitimacy, justification, or moral standing. WOR does not determine who started a conflict, who is right, or who bears more responsibility. That is not what this platform is for.
What WOR does is measure observable facts: how many people have been killed, how many have been displaced, whether fighting is intensifying or receding, and how the situation is affecting the countries around it. These are not political questions — they are humanitarian ones.
Every data point carries a source citation. Conflict descriptions are synthesized from coverage across outlets with different regional perspectives — never from a single outlet's account. When a figure is an estimate rather than a confirmed count, it is labelled as such. Corrections are applied immediately and the updated figure is noted. No information is removed — corrections are always additions, not erasures.
FORECASTS
The WOR Forecast Center provides probabilistic estimates of how a conflict may develop — escalation likelihood, ceasefire probability, and regional spillover risk — based on current data, historical patterns from similar conflicts, and signal trends detected in the live feed.
WOR forecasts are probabilistic estimates based on historical patterns and current data. They are not guarantees of future events. Confidence levels are shown for every forecast. Never act on a WOR forecast as a certainty.
PRESS & PARTNERSHIPS
For media enquiries, data licensing, research partnerships, or embedding the WOR Severity Index on your publication, contact the editorial team directly.
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