“Taking into account the feedback we gathered in three non-public workshops with NGO workers, military officials, and journalists, WP3 will prepare the major dissemination outcome of DATAWAR, the Conflict Database Compass (CDC). The CDC website will be the first publicly accessible and interactive guide to available sources of quantitative conflict data, organized according to specific practitioner needs. Based on a detailed mapping exercise of open-source databases, the tool will gather meta-data for each database and make them accessible through interactive queries. The CDC will thus assist practitioners, who are often less familiar with the pitfalls of gathering social science data while working under time pressure, in quickly identifying the conflict database that is most reliable and germane to their particular needs.”