It's too bad the data is "off" because the map is quite stunning. To call friendly fire incidents, riots and explosions and such "battles" seems a little suspe

It's too bad the data is "off" because the map is quite stunning. To call friendly fire incidents, riots and explosions and such "battles" seems a little suspect. A "battle" should involve one or more belligerents of significant force (i.e., > 100) in an organized campaign. Smaller battles are routinely called "skirmishes" and shouldn't really even be recorded in this sense. Unorganized violence is simply unrest or rioting. And accidents are exactly that. Also, I highly doubt China is a relative haven for peace given their history and population. There's clearly a lack of data there (or rather, they don't bother recording all of the other things that the creator has decided to add as "battles"). I question the overall motives of this. It's almost as if the creator wants the west to seem more violent than the rest of the planet. I don't think that's the reality. We're all just as bad.