Conflicts

Conflict Barometer (HIIK)

Annual conflict intensity by country and region from Heidelberg’s Conflict Barometer, intensity classes, not event pins and not battle-death totals.

Fix Planet overview of conflict-intensity bands: deep red for a war-intensity orientation, orange for other violent-conflict orientation, and grey land left unclassified: not HIIK cover art and not ACLED pins — A Fix Planet overview after the named source: not that publisher’s official graphic. Open the source map for the current layer.

Conflicts 2025 HIIK Heidelberg · Conflict Barometer

What

The Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) publishes the annual Conflict Barometer (Konfliktbarometer): a global inventory of political conflicts with intensity levels (from non-violent dispute through limited violence to war), regional chapters, static maps, and downloadable datasets. Latest PDF checked: Conflict Barometer 2025 (coba_2025.pdf). English and German hubs both resolve.

Why on this shelf

ACLED is high-frequency event geography; UCDP is death accounting; GPI/FSI are country indices; SIPRI is spending. HIIK answers how intense is this conflict this year on a coded scale?, the missing intensity layer. HIIK hubs and PDFs returned 200, so no UN Peacekeeping substitute was needed.

How to read it

An intensity class is HIIK’s coding for that conflict-year, not a UN Security Council resolution and not ACLED’s pin count. One country can host several conflicts at different intensities. Open the current Conflict Barometer and the static maps and datasets pages. Preview = Fix Planet overview after HIIK, not their cover art.

Caveats

Not this card: ACLED dashboard; UCDP GED; UN mission deployment maps (different question).

Sources

License

Attribute Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK). The preview is a Fix Planet overview, not a second ACLED dot field and not HIIK cover art.

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