The War Maps Project is an open, reproducible atlas for navigating organized armed conflict from 1946 to the present source boundary. It keeps observations attached to source, actor, time, place, coding method, and unresolved questions.
Origins and purpose
The project originates in the causal framework developed in Causality and Attraction, Volume I and Nested Causal Modelling. War Maps applies nested causal modelling to the documented structure surrounding armed conflict. It is intended to develop into navigable nested causal models of every organized conflict for which peer-reviewed or institutionally maintained data are available.
The atlas does not appoint itself responsible for truth. It makes data sources, transformations, coverage, and methods explicit so a reader can inspect what a map supports, what it does not support, and which question remains open.
Principal Investigator
Sid J.A. Hubbard is the Principal Investigator of the War Maps Project. At this stage, the entirety of the atlas is written, directed, and engineered by its Principal Investigator with the assistance of AI and data-science tools. Decisions about scope, interpretation, publication, and corrections remain with the Principal Investigator.
Open source and citation
War Maps software and original project documentation are published under the MIT License. Upstream datasets retain their own licenses and citation requirements. Books and other authored publications linked above are not relicensed by the repository license.
War Maps Project. (2026). War Maps: An Atlas of Organized Armed Conflict [Data set, software, and interactive atlas]. Sid J.A. Hubbard, Principal Investigator. https://github.com/SJAH9/war-maps-project