Such a measure must recognize multifarious local complexities and extract important patterns that can inform strategic and operational decision-making. Determining which countries meet a severity threshold has tangible implications for what kinds of violence are seen and responded to – and where. To mitigate these threats, all manner of stakeholders – including policymakers, analysts, civil society organizations, businesses, and the media – require unbiased, straightforward, and reliable assessments of conflict severity. Multiple types of violence often occur in the same country at the same time, exposing the public and state to several, simultaneous threats. These incidents ranged from mob attacks on political party supporters and assassinations of local authorities, to state killings, insurgent clashes, and cartel violence. 1 This statistic was calculated using ACLED data on locations with at least one political violence event in 2022 with WorldPop’s global population data collected at 1km² scale. In 2021, the latest year for which comparable population data are available, ACLED estimates that up to 20% of the world’s population – roughly 1.7 billion people – were exposed to political violence. Globally, more than 125,700 political violence events took place in 2022, leading to over 145,500 reported fatalities. A cold war followed, spreading globally and leading to a nuclear standoff.Accounting for the Complexity of ConflictĬonflict is complex and widespread. By 1951, Europe was divided into two power blocs, American-led and Soviet-led, each with atomic weapons. Military alliances were formed as the West grouped together as NATO, and the East banded together as the Warsaw Pact. also offered the Marshall Plan, massive aid package aimed at supporting collapsing economies that were letting communist sympathizers gain power.
pledging to prevent the communists from extending their power, a process that led to the West supporting some terrible regimes. countered with the Truman Doctrine, with its policy of containment to stop communism spreading-it also turned the world into a giant map of allies and enemies, with the U.S. The West feared a communist invasion, physical and ideological, that would turn them into communist states with a Stalin-style leader-the worst possible option-and for many, it caused fear over the likelihood of mainstream socialism, too.
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