Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).


The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world. It covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

In addition to SIPRI and ISN data it uses data from the following project partners and cooperators


BICC Bonn International Centre for Conversion
CEIP The Carnegie Endowment for Int. Peace
CIDOB Center of Int. Relations and Int. Cooperation
CITS Center for International Trade and Security
CRED Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
Crisis Group International Crisis Group
FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency
FfP The Fund for Peace
GRC Gulf Research Center
FH Freedom House
HIIK Heidelberg Institute of Int. Conflict Research
HU Hiroshima University
HRW Human Rights Watch
IDEA Int. Inst. for Democracy & Electoral Assistance
INCOREInitiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
IEA International Energy Agency
ICBL International Campaign to Ban Landmines
IPU The Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISIS Institute for Science and Int. Security
NISAT Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers
IDMC Internal displacement monitoring centre
NPSIA Norman Paterson School of Int. Affairs
OFDA Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance
RWB Reporters without Borders
TI Tranparency International
UCDP Department of Peace and Conflict Research Uppsala University
UNCA The University of North Caroline at Asheville
UNSD United Nations Statistics Division
UoT The Perry-Castaneda library, University of Texas at Austin
World Bank The World Bank Group

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