War Tapestry.






War Tapestry is a data visualisation, mapping all ongoing wars starting in the artist’s birth year 1994, but including all wars started before this year. The infographic is based on the common source website Wikipedia. To read the infographic tapestry.    

—  One across represents a day this war has been fought.      

|    One along stands for a war. Each war is marked with its given name and date of beginning.



1918, Kurdish separatism in Iran. 1947, Sectarianism in Pakistan. 29 June 1947, Balochistan conflict. 14 May 1948, Israeli–Palestinian conflict. 1960, Xinjiang conflict. 1962, Papua conflict. 1963, Insurgency in Northeast India. 27 May 1964, Colombian conflict. 29 March 1969, CPP–NPA–NDF rebellion 1973, Oromo conflict. 8 November 1975, Cabinda War. 27 April 1978, War in Afghanistan. 17 May 1980, Internal conflict in Peru. 1982, Casamance conflict 1987, Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency. 20 February 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. 1994, Ogaden insurgency. 1995, Second Afar insurgency. 13 November 1996, Allied Democratic Forces insurgency. 1998, Communal conflicts in Nigeria. June 1999, Ituri conflict. 11 April 2002, Insurgency in the Maghreb. 2003, Conflict in the Niger Delta. 26 February 2003, War in Darfur. 4 January 2004, South Thailand insurgency. 16 March 2004, War in Waziristan. 11 December 2006, Mexican Drug War. 2008, Sudanese nomadic conflicts. 31 January 2009, Somali Civil War. 16 April 2009, Insurgency in the North Caucasus. 26 July 2009, Boko Haram insurgency. 5 February 2011, Sinai insurgency. 15 March 2011 Syrian Civil War. 5 June 2011, South Kordofan conflict. 16 January 2012, Northern Mali conflict. 10 December 2012, Central African Republic conflict. 2013, Batwa-Luba clashes. 11 May 2013, Turkey–ISIL conflict. 3 July 2013, Insurgency in Egypt. 15 December 2013, South Sudanese Civil War. 1 January 2014, Iraqi Civil War. 6 April 2014, War in Donbass. 16 May 2014, Libyan Civil War. 31 January 2015, Kivu conflict. March 2015, RENAMO insurgency. 19 March 2015, Yemeni Civil War. 26 April 2015, Burundian unrest. 26 June 2015, ISIL insurgency in Tunisia. July 2015, Kurdish–Turkish conflict. 4 April 2016, Pool war. 8 July 2016, Kashmir unrest. 8 August 2016, Kamwina Nsapu rebellion. 9 October 2016, Northern Rakhine State clashes. 23 May 2017, Battle of Marawi.*
*List from October 2017.