About GReVD
The Consortium
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The Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD, pronounced like ”grieved”) will be a database of every violent death coded by time and location. The primary use of the registry will be monitoring and counting violent deaths as an important part of monitoring global violence trends. Furthermore, it is expected that the database will be an important record and recognition of lives lost to violence.
To build the infrastructure necessary to monitor violent deaths at this scale, new coding standards, innovations in human and machine coding and increased precision of coding will be necessary. Innovations in these technologies and practices will be shared within the consortium. These innovations will be shared with governments of countries affected by violence so that global monitoring of violence can improve. The consortium is committed to helping countries and civil society improve their monitoring of violence as an important component of promoting global violence reduction.
The consortium is comprised of global experts on monitoring and coding violent event data, data science, visualization and statistical capacity building. The consortium is convened by the Brookings Institution and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) who act as the secretariat and focal points for the consortium. Parties interested in joining the consortium should review the principles and standards and then contact the GReVD secretariat.