Intelligence map
A globe of public open-source intelligence layers: conflicts, sanctions, cyber threats, shipping and more, each from its public source.
World Map (Global Intelligence desk)
World Map is a data page on the Global Intelligence desk of Glassbox Auditing. Conflicts, disasters and shipping disruptions reach markets through prices for energy, food and freight; seeing where they are happening shows which supply routes are exposed.
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What is on this page today?
- Protests: 34 in 24 hours, 54% below the 30-day norm — 30-day average 73 a day (ACLED, 8 Nov 2026)
- Violent events and reports in the last 7 days: 19,324 — 19,324 violent events and reports in 922 places; latest ACLED week: to 30 Oct 2026 (ACLED, UCDP and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- Gaza Strip: 471 conflict and protest events and reports in 7 days, -90 since 1 Nov (ACLED, UCDP and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- Protest events and reports in the last 7 days: 1,660 — 1,660 protest events and reports; most in United States (436), India (390), France (119); latest ACLED week: to 30 Oct 2026 (ACLED and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- Yemen and the southern Red Sea: 188 conflict and protest events and reports in 7 days, +57 since 1 Nov (ACLED, UCDP and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- Central Sahel insurgency: 182 conflict and protest events and reports in 7 days, -112 since 1 Nov (ACLED, UCDP and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- Northeast Nigeria and Lake Chad: 47 conflict and protest events and reports in 7 days, -40 since 1 Nov (ACLED, UCDP and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- Myanmar civil war: 41 conflict and protest events and reports in 7 days, +16 since 1 Nov (ACLED, UCDP and news reports, 8 Nov 2026)
- RUSSIA-EO14024 is the largest US sanctions programme, with 6,442 listings — UN's largest Al-Qaida 333 (U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists, 8 Nov 2026)
- Russia: 10,733 sanctions designations on the US, EU and UN lists, +1 since 31 Oct — US (OFAC) 7,409 · EU 3,312 · UN 12 · Russia's count includes the US and EU Ukraine-related programs, which list mostly Russian people and companies (U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists, 6 Nov 2026)
- Iran: 5,131 sanctions designations on the US, EU and UN lists, +23 since 31 Oct — US (OFAC) 4,259 · EU 749 · UN 123 (U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists, 6 Nov 2026)
- China: 1,359 sanctions designations on the US, EU and UN lists, +8 since 31 Oct — US (OFAC) 1,300 · EU 52 · UN 7 (U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists, 6 Nov 2026)
- Mexico: 1,228 sanctions designations on the US, EU and UN lists, unchanged since 31 Oct — US (OFAC) 1,228 · EU 0 · UN 0 (U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists, 6 Nov 2026)
- North Korea: 1,020 sanctions designations on the US, EU and UN lists, unchanged since 31 Oct — US (OFAC) 599 · EU 266 · UN 155 (U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists, 6 Nov 2026)
- Venezuela to Colombia is the largest displacement corridor: 2.8 million people at the end of 2025 — Venezuela to Colombia: 1,097 refugees · 16,320 asylum seekers · 2.8 million others in need of protection (UNHCR, 30 Dec 2025)
Where does the data come from?
Items on this page come from ACLED; ACLED, UCDP and news reports; ACLED and news reports; U.S. Treasury (OFAC), European Union and UN Security Council sanctions lists; UNHCR. Each item links to its own source. All sources, how items are checked.
What does this page lead to?
- Oil Stress (Macro): Fighting near Hormuz, the Red Sea or the Black Sea slows or reroutes tankers through those passages, which the oil stress reading counts in its shipping part. (moves the same way; days to weeks; global scale) Source: IMF PortWatch, daily chokepoint transits (satellite AIS).
- Fear Gauge (VIX) (Briefing): A sudden war, attack or major earthquake tends to lift the market's expected volatility for days while its economic reach is unclear. (moves the same way; same day; global scale) Source: Cboe VIX index data (daily history and delayed quotes).
- Energy & Materials (Macro): Wars and attacks tend to lift gold, held as a store of value when fear rises, and crude when the fighting is near oil fields or supply routes. (moves the same way; same day; global scale) Source: FRED, Brent crude spot price (DCOILBRENTEU, from EIA).
- Sanctions & Watchlists (Global Intelligence): Governments answer invasions and attacks with new sanctions designations, so the lists tend to grow after a conflict starts, as they did after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. (moves the same way; weeks; global scale) Source: US Treasury OFAC, Specially Designated Nationals list.
- Trade Exposure (Companies): Conflict, sanctions or a blocked passage in a trading partner raises the cost or cuts the supply of the imports Trade Exposure measures for each company. (either way, depending on the cause; weeks to months; sector scale) Source: UN Comtrade (U.S. Census trade data).
- Organized Violence (Global Intelligence): The fighting that news reports and ACLED's weekly counts put on the live map is coded separately by UCDP, first in its monthly preliminary events and, after review, in the yearly counts on Organized Violence. (moves the same way; months; global scale) Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset (monthly, preliminary).
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