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Grenada

0.5% annual probability
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Risk assessment

Risk profile

The 12-month probability of a new armed-conflict onset in Grenada is 0.5%, representing a minimal risk. Grenada is a small, politically stable Caribbean state with no recent record of sustained internal armed violence, insurgency, or interstate confrontation. Its main historical conflict episode was the US-led invasion in October 1983, following a coup and domestic political crisis, but that episode remains exceptional rather than a continuing pattern.

Recent reporting provides no indication of mobilisation by domestic armed groups, military intervention, or an emerging dispute involving Grenada’s territory. The principal relevant actors remain the Grenadian government and security institutions, with the United States and regional Caribbean partners as potential external security actors; current coverage about wars and political repression elsewhere does not identify a direct threat to Grenada.

The largest uncertainty is the possibility of an abrupt political rupture or an external Caribbean security crisis, both of which would require developments not currently reported. Risk would rise most clearly with a coup attempt, organised armed violence, or a credible foreign threat to Grenadian territory; continued institutional stability and the absence of armed mobilisation would support the present minimal-risk assessment.

Strategic reasoning

  • Grenada’s 1983 coup and subsequent US-led intervention show that severe political breakdown can generate armed conflict, but the country has otherwise lacked a sustained conflict trajectory. Its small size and limited military capacity also make major independent warfare unlikely.
  • Current reporting contains no credible signal of domestic armed organisation or hostile military activity involving Grenada. This assessment concerns a new conflict on Grenadian territory, not wars elsewhere involving foreign states or Grenadian citizens.

Critical indicators

  • On 25 October 1983, the United States invaded Grenada after the collapse of the revolutionary government and the killing of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. The episode remains the clearest historical precedent for a new conflict onset on the island, while its exceptional nature supports the present low level of risk.
  • Recent Grenada-linked coverage reviewed a historical account of the 1983 intervention and reported on conflicts and political crises in Iran, Serbia, Tunisia, and Ukraine. None identified a current armed confrontation, coup attempt, or territorial threat involving Grenada; no prediction market was available.

Probability trend

How the Grenada estimate has moved

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Regional context

Grenada compared with its neighbours and region

Grenada ranks number 137 of 195 in new conflict outbreak risk.

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