Conflict Processes

Conflict Processes

Chicago Heat Map of events
Firewatch heatmap showing the locations of 510 destabilizing governmental acts initiated by federal actors between September 1, 2025 and January 30, 2026 as part of Operation Midway Blitz.

The Center has nearly two decades of experience in researching threats to societal stability, in systematically categorizing acts of protest and political violence around the world, and in creating data interventions to improve systems of accountability in ways that strengthen effective governance. Most of these projects employ Artificial Intelligence capabilities along with Natural Language Processing algorithms to support highly trained human analysts in reliably extracting information about societal unrest events from news reports and other authoritative sources of information. To learn more about these projects, please use the links below.