War Maps joins conflict, governance, and population-health observations without hiding their different units, dates, or evidentiary boundaries. These pages document every displayed layer and the decisions that connect them.
About the projectOrigins, authorship, license, citation, and project governance.
Map formulationNested enclosures, joins, transformations, and interpretation.
Conflict dataUCDP conflict-year and candidate-event records.
Governance dataV-Dem regime categories and transitions.
Population healthIHME mortality and fertility plus World Bank / UN crude birth rate.
Coverage and limitsTemporal boundaries, missingness, and excluded claims.
CitationsCanonical source links, versions, and reuse notes.
Color legendThe shared semantic palette used by every visualization.