the Polynational War Memorial: a memorial for all wars since 1945

EDITORIALS

Learning by numbers
posted: 2016-07-31 | Stockholm

This summer's quite comprehensive refurbishing of this website is drawing to a close. It's been a big relief to be able to devote time to mend broken links, improve the code, squash a number of bugs and redesign parts of the site. But the project also reached a saddening milestone.

NEWS

Update Log 2024
posted: 2024-02-24 | Stockholm

It's time to initiate the update log for the updates of databases and functions. It's a process that will be made in steps and may go on for some time. This is living document in wich you can read reports on the progress.

Updated Donation Page
posted: 2024-01-04 | Stockholm

The PayPal donation page for the Polynational War Memorial project has been updated. Donations helps maintaing and develop the website and databases and supports the project's aim to create a global war memorial for all wars. Your contribution is highly appreciated. Please visit our donation page at PayPal via this link:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DLTJNMNCTWZGU

Update Log 2018
posted: 2018-07-21 | Stockholm

It's time for the annual update of the databases and functions at this site, and as usual the update will proceed in steps. This article is a log of the changes and will be updated continously..

War Database Update Log 2017
posted: 2017-06-04 | Stockholm

The update of the war database has commenced and will continue for the month of June 2017. It will begin with battle-related fatalities from UCDP:s battle-related deaths dataset covering the wars of 2015. As usually updated figures regarding battle-deaths, one-sided violence and non-state conflicts will be published continuously, conflict-by-conflict, which makes the total number of deaths incomplete during the update period. This log contains information about the process including updated articles and website functions.

Mobile-friendly website in the making!
posted: 2016-08-23 | Stockholm

Since around 25% of you who visit this website use smaller screens or mobile phones, according to my visitor tracker, it's about time that you'll get a better browsing experience.

FEATURES

An alarming picture
posted: 2023-12-17| by: Jon Brunberg

The latest figures from Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP, paints a picture that should be cause for alarm: the number of armed conflict in the world has not been this high in decades. In 2022 UCDP recorded 187 active armed conflicts in three main categories: state-based, non-state and one-sided violence. It's the highest figure since they first started to publish records in all three categories in 1989. Most remarkably the number of state-based conflicts has soared, from 31 active conflicts in 2010 to 56 in 2022.

Even more alarming is the fact that the number of fatalities in armed conflicts are at a record high. Never since the fall of the Soviet Union has so many died because of war, except only for the horrific exception of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

For this project I maintain a list of wars since 1900 based on data from Correlates of War, PRIO and UCDP. It was made to give a global overview of all the wars in the world based on the best academic research available through open sources. In theses troubling times it seems appropriate to update it with the most recent data. As this is a nonprofit project this usually takes a couple of months. You are warmly welcome to follow the process at war-memorial.net and the project's facebook page.

Jon Brunberg
Stockholm 17 december 2023

Chart: UCDP, fatalities by types of violence 1989-2022. Based on data from UCDP 23.1. Graph from https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/charts/. Source: Davies, Shawn, Therese Pettersson & Magnus Öberg (2023). Organized violence 1989-2022 and the return of conflicts between states?. Journal of Peace Research (Forthcoming).

OTHER FEATURES

Notes on the Online Memorial Collection
posted: 2016-07-19| by: Jon Brunberg

Contrasting impressions on Omaha Beach
posted: 2013-08-19| by: Jon Brunberg

Wanås Master Plan: documentation video
posted: 2013-08-13| by: Jon Brunberg

Le Mémorial in Caen - Narratives of War and Peace
posted: 2009-11-18| by: Jon Brunberg

Workshop Dossin-Mechelen Report
posted: 2007-03-22| by: Jon Brunberg

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You can find hundreds of war memorials in the research database, with images and links to sources. Find memorials by country or designer, by browsing images or text search. All options are available at the memorials start page.