Category Archives: Conflict Maps

Maps help us locate and think about conflict in different ways.

Amnesty International Annual Report on Executions

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Amnesty International Report on executions is at http://bit.ly/10KEuOe It is summarized in this diagram that puts the US to shame in the company it keeps: China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan….

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Global Crop Production Shows Some Signs of Stagnating: Max Fisher

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

Something that should be worrying us a lot and which has major future conflict implications: Max Fisher’s Washington Post article on the possible stagnation of global crop production. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/24/is-production-of-key-global-crops-stagnating/     After decades of rapidly growing global agricultural output, production … Continue reading →

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America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead by Kevin Drum

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

There is an excellent article in Mother Jones by Kevin Drum at http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline on the link between crime levels and lead in the atmosphere. It will be interesting if conservatives can get their head round the idea that crime rates … Continue reading →

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Mapping the London Blitz 1940-41

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

If you want to get a sense of the bombs dropped on London during the Blitz in 1940-41, take a look at this website and its mapping of this subject. Amazing and even more so if you have ever lived … Continue reading →

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World Water Usage Mapped

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

I love maps and those from World Mapper in particular, which show various perspectives on country’s income, resource use etc at: http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map104_ver5.pdf I particularly liked this map on Water Usage in which the area of the country is proportional to its … Continue reading →

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‘Only Madmen and Economists….’ as Seen by Ken Boulding

Posted on April 1, 2012 by

‘Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.’ Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993) a very sane economist World natural and environmental disaster hot spots: See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Boulding Ken:

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Cross Cultural Differences: Global Map

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Cross cultural differences are a potentially important element in conflict. My old friend Stephen Rhinesmith, an expert in such matters, used to say that 90% of conflict within cross cultural teams is nothing to do with cultural differences, but just … Continue reading →

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Interpersonal Conflict: World Murder Rates

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

Violence is among the leading causes of death for people aged 15–44 years worldwide, accounting for 14% of deaths among males and 7% of deaths among females. Here is a map showing the world murder rates amounting to 520,000 people in 2000: … Continue reading →

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Mapping US Poverty by State

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

Well not being insular, the UK Guardian has an interesting article and interactive map on the distribution of the poverty in the US. Presumably the New York Times will reciprocate with an interactive map of poverty in Europe or at … Continue reading →

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Gini Index 0.38!: Another Occupy Wall Street Slogan

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

I guess one of the ways that Occupy Wall Street needs to become more economically literate is by knowing about the Gini Index, which measures inequality. The Gini Index is 0 if everyone has the same income, and 1 if … Continue reading →

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