Period: 2008 – 2025

Description: The Observatory is a database for critical presentation of ongoing conflicts around the world and their evolution. The Observatory is divided into five geographical sections and each includes analytical records of individual conflicts that have occurred in the area. The first presentation of the contents of the Observatory (data as of 2008) was published in: Contemporary armed conflicts – Futuribles Notebooks No. 15

The Observatory is edited by Fabio Fossati, University of Trieste.

Current Edition

• Update to 31/12/2024 (published January 2025)

Previous editions

• Update to 12/31/2023
• Update 2022 (published March 2023)
• Update 2021 (published July 2022)
• 2020 Update (published March 2021)
• Update 2019 (published March 2020)
• Updated information to 2011 appears in: Observatory of Contemporary Conflicts. Database updated to 2011 – ISIG Journal, Vol XX, No. 3, 2011