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The Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) website launches today and can be reached at: www.grevd.org.

Today, SIPRI, the Brookings Institution and a growing list of partners are pleased to release a new film on why counting violent deaths matters for peace and security.

SIPRI has set up a new initiative aimed at establishing the annual number of violent deaths worldwide. The Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) will count deaths caused by all forms of violence and display these in an open-source database, which will allow researchers, policymakers and the general public to track trends in violence at global, regional, national, provincial, city and municipal levels.