Sources and citations

Data provenance for every map layer

Cite the atlas for project transformations and each upstream producer for the observations reused in analysis.

Uppsala Conflict Data Program

UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset and UCDP Candidate Events Dataset. Cite the exact version disclosed in the repository build and follow UCDP terms.

UCDP downloads and documentation

V-Dem Institute

Varieties of Democracy country-year dataset. Cite the loaded release and the V-Dem codebook for regime and indicator definitions.

V-Dem dataset and documentation

IHME

Global Burden of Disease 2023 mortality and fertility results. Cite the GBD 2023 study and comply with IHME download terms.

GBD Results tool

Natural Earth

Public-domain reference geometry used to draw countries and coastlines.

Natural Earth

Atlas citation

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

Generated tables and transformed joins should attribute the War Maps Project. Source variables and observations remain attributable to UCDP, V-Dem, IHME, the World Bank, the UN Population Division, and Natural Earth as applicable.