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Huge amounts of news items are being published from various sources around the world. Our interest in this paper is from the perspective of peace keeping organizations such as United Nations and Red Cross that can benefit from information aggregated from different sources to make important decisions. GDELT project is one such source where data about conflicts is aggregated from various newspaper sources around the globe. This paper makes three contributions to the analysis of peace and conflict data available on GDELT. First, the paper presents two case studies to investigate whether the data extracted from news items in fact captures the global events accurately. The case studies considered were the Sri Lankan civil war, and the 2006 Fijian coup. Second, in these case studies, the study demonstrates how change point analysis can be used to identify important trends which will be valuable for making decisions. Third, based on experience gained through the exploration of these two case studies, it proposes a conceptual model of a multi-level analysis in the form of a dashboard system that would be of interest to different stakeholders.
Keertipati et al. (Tue,) studied this question.