Sources
The monitor ingests RSS feeds from 20 international outlets covering armed conflict, diplomacy, humanitarian crises, and security policy. Articles are fetched once daily, embedded, and clustered by similarity before any AI synthesis occurs.
Sources are not treated equally. Each feed carries a credibility weight between 0 and 1 that scales the AI-generated confidence score. Wire services, UN bodies, and established research institutes (Reuters, UN News, SIPRI, Chatham House) sit near the top. Specialist blogs sit lower. No source is authoritative on its own — the value is in the overlap across multiple independent outlets reporting the same event.
Some feeds fail silently on a given day — timeouts, paywalls, feed format changes. When a source goes quiet, its events drop from the live window. This is an honest limitation: the map shows what the feeds say, not what is happening.
Current sources
- International Crisis Group
- ReliefWeb
- UN News
- Al Jazeera
- The New Humanitarian
- Stratfor Worldview
- War on the Rocks
- Long War Journal
- Global Voices
- Deutsche Welle
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- France 24
- Defense Blog
- South China Morning Post
- The EastAfrican
- The Cipher Brief
- SIPRI
- Chatham House
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Humanitarian Policy Group
Event context (country data, economic indicators, active crises, Wikipedia extracts) is sourced from Wikidata, REST Countries, World Bank Open Data, and ReliefWeb — all free, open APIs with no registration required.