First up, from Allianz, a quick primer:
Strikes, riots and civil commotion – a test of business resilience
In an unstable world, how and why are tensions likely to flare up,
and what does this mean for business?
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From SwissRe's Reinsurance Insights blog:
Strikes, Riots and Civil Commotion: Exploring solutions to proactively manage heightening risk
Undoubtedly, the impacts of Strikes, Riots and Civil Commotion (SRCC) are at a historical high.
It wasn’t long ago that no single SRCC event had exceeded USD 1 billion in losses, with the most significant instance on record having been the Los Angeles riot in 1992. In more recent times though, large scale SRCC events have accumulated to the extent that SRCC has become a prominent risk topic for (re)insurance industry CXOs and Board of Directors (see table)....
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At Verisk, for the insurers:
Strikes, Riots, and Civil Commotion (SRCC) Risk Model
Discover the industry’s first probabilistic Strikes, Riots, and Civil Commotion (SRCC) predictive model for the United States—an award-winning new benchmark for political violence risk modeling.
Discover the first SRCC catastrophe model to quantify risk
The Verisk SRCC Model for the U.S. supports pricing, underwriting, capital, and risk decisions while identifying growth opportunities. It’s built on Verisk’s global expertise in SRCC, spanning political science, data science, and machine learning to assess risk, and through our probabilistic modeling frameworks, quantify metrics such as average annual loss (AAL) and exceedance probabilities....
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Finally, the Carnegie Endowment Global Protest Tracker is due for an update:
Global Protest Tracker
A one-stop source for following crucial trends in the most significant antigovernment protests worldwide since 2017.
Last updated on September 9, 2026.
