Eleven Signal categories
Two of our eleven categories cover violence. The others cover displacement, health, the environment, social harms, and peace, justice and reform.
Social impact
A daily record of peace and conflict, in local detail
Living Signals records local reporting on dialogue, reconciliation, women’s participation and reform alongside unrest and violence. Each development is grouped into a Signal and linked to the articles behind it.
Built for: Think tanks, peacebuilding organisations, universities and research teams.
Why it matters
Local evidence on peacebuilding and conflict
Women, Peace & Security, built in
Signals are assessed against Women, Peace & Security attributes, with links to the reporting behind each assessment.
A Positive Peace lens
Signals can be read through the Positive Peace framework, which links day-to-day events to the structures that sustain peace over time.
Built to be cited
Every Signal keeps its source articles. Export it, or pull it into your own notebooks and models through the REST API.
Use cases
How research teams use it
Trend analysis
Follow themes where datasets are thin.
Follow a theme month by month where structured datasets are thin or missing, with the reporting behind every data point.
Peace and WPS
Women’s participation, dialogue and reform.
Find local reporting on women’s roles in peace processes, community mediation and justice reform, already tagged and linked to its sources.
Programme context
Check the context before and during a programme.
Programme teams check what is being reported around their sites and partners before an intervention starts, and keep checking while it runs.
AI-assisted analysis
Ask the data questions in plain language.
Connect Claude or another AI assistant through MCP to query Signals and claims directly, with links back to the source articles.
From the data
A real Signal from our data
President Tshisekedi establishes National Dialogue Committee
- Kinshasa, DR Congo
- 9–15 Sep 2026
- 16 sources
- 3 languages
DR Congo’s president set up a committee to prepare a national dialogue on peace, social cohesion and the renewal of the state.
Why it matters here
Researchers studying dialogue initiatives will find it under Peace, Justice & Reform, with reporting from sixteen outlets in English, French and Swahili. Event datasets built around violence rarely record steps like this one.
Demo data covers one month in DR Congo, Cameroon and Mali.
How it fits
Use it the way your team already works
Analyst dashboard
Search, map and filter Signals for your countries, updated overnight.
Exports
Signals and claims as files, with a link to every source article.
REST API
The same data through a documented API, for your own models and tools.
MCP connector
Ask Claude and other AI assistants questions about the data.
Pilots and partners
Organisations working with us
(opens in a new tab)Peace trends analysis
Studying local developments through the Positive Peace framework, where other datasets lack detail.
(opens in a new tab)Gender-aware AI
Bringing humanitarian values and a gender lens to the data, from collection to analysis.
Sample brief
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We will put together a short brief from our data on one country you cover.
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We work with research teams on case studies and data access. Tell us what you are studying and which countries it covers.