Political instability, weak institutions, regulatory shifts and governance failures change exposure to every other hazard, because they determine whether warnings are acted on, budgets are spent and contracts are honoured. This section of the Governance, security and society subsite sets records for governance indicators, regulatory events, policy and clause artifacts and decision records so that analysts can trace how institutional conditions condition risk, with stated measurement error. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Nexus Standards (2026). Political and governance risk standards: area brief, Governance, Security and Society (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/society/political-and-governance-risk-standards/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The hazard and threat families section of Governance, Security and Society. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
Hazards and threats 5
Sectors 3
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
Global SDG Indicators Databasepending admission
UN Statistics Division · annual
United Nations terms of use; licence to be recorded by Legal
build-time snapshotproposed register row
V-Dem datasetpending admission
V-Dem Institute (University of Gothenburg) · annual
CC BY-SA 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Worldwide Governance Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
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Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX)SDMX sponsors (BIS, ECB, Eurostat, IMF, OECD, UN, World Bank)register · sdmxPROV-O: The PROV OntologyW3Cregister · w3c-prov-ocrosswalk3
Open Contracting Data StandardOpen Contracting Partnershipregister · open-contracting-data-standardIATI Standard 2.03International Aid Transparency Initiativeregister · iati-standard-2-03Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030United Nations (UNDRR custodian)register · sendai-frameworkClosed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Mix standards and clauses into a profile draft with citations; YAML or JSON; nothing is submitted.
Today · in your browserPick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-3, NS-9, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
GCRI Canada may admit governance indicator records that carry confidence intervals and source composition as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
GRF may record public bodies that publish decision records on the shared profile as a recognition dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
GRA may read governance and regulatory-event records when it considers institutional risk in projects; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Governance indicators, regulatory events and machine-readable policy records with honest measurement error.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
4 Nexus Standards · 3 domains · 42 external standards · 29 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph79 nodes and 99 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| NIST | Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States | 7 |
| ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 | Geneva, Switzerland | 3 |
| Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BIS) | Basel, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 292 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence TC | Woburn, Massachusetts, United States | 2 |
| Basel Committee on Banking Supervision | Basel, Switzerland | 1 |
| CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphere | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| European Parliament and Council | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| European Parliament and Council; EIOPA | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| Financial Stability Board | Basel, Switzerland | 1 |
| FIRST CVSS Special Interest Group | Cary, North Carolina, United States | 1 |
| HXL Working Group (UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data) | The Hague, Netherlands | 1 |
| IETF | Wilmington, Delaware, United States | 1 |
| Inter-Agency Standing Committee (Data Responsibility Working Group) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| International Aid Transparency Initiative | New York, New York, United States | 1 |
| International Association of Insurance Supervisors | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| International Organization of Securities Commissions | Madrid, Spain | 1 |
| ISO/TC 207/SC 7 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| Oasis LMF (not-for-profit) | Woburn, Massachusetts, United States | 1 |
| Open Contracting Partnership | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | 1 |
| Sphere Association | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 8 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: IMF and World Bank; International Finance Corporation; World Bank; Equator Principles Association; Financial Action Task Force; United Nations General Assembly; and more · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe21 issuing bodies with a public seat, 42 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governance and institutions (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/governance/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Political and governance risk standards, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.