Friends, a call for contributions: We are compiling a database for violent conflicts & are putting our data in the public for comments. Clearly we are doing some analytics and are finding stuff at great variance with what the science writer S. Pinker did, but to be sure we are putting our data in the open for people to contest or contribute. (Note that we are only concerned with wars with > 5000 casualties).
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/WeisenbornDataProject.pdf

Source: Friends, a call for contributions: We are… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb