Connecting Africa
Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa. Full-text of publications, images and sound from institutional repositories many based in African nations.
Political violence
ACLED Early Warning Dashboard, a new hub that offers interconnected tools for tracking political violence and demonstrations around the world. It provides a single access point to four previous early warning resources — the Volatility & Risk Predictability Index, Conflict Change Map, Subnational Threat & Surge Trackers, and Emerging Actor Tracker — into a single, easy-to-use platform. Various […]
Ukraine Conflict Monitor/ACLED Conflict Alert System
Ukraine Conflict Monitor has been expanded and updated by ACLED.There is now free access to real-time information and analysis on the war, including an interactive map of the latest data from the start of the invasion onward, a curated data file, and weekly situation updates. The Monitor is designed to help researchers and now includes reviews and […]
Conflict Severity Index
ACLED is launching a new Conflict Severity Index. This tool will enable researches to compare the extent and severity of conflicts worldwide. Four indicators are used: deadliness, danger, diffusion, and fragmentation.The Conflict Severity Index has interactive visualization as well as a full report explaining its indicators, methodology, and findings.
Say my name right
Say my Name Right is a shareable resource developed by Dr Hannah Deakin-Smith and Dr Jane Pilcher of Nottingham Trent University. It draws on findings from the Say My Name research project funded by the British Academy which explored the impact on students of staff avoiding saying their name or mispronouncing it. It emphasizes how important it is for staff to learn how to […]
Inclusive humanitarian aid
Age Gender Diversity Matrix Tool – A Framework for an Inclusive World (agd-matrix-tool.com) Developed by Associate Professor Eileen Pittaway and Dr Linda Bartolomei, University of New South Wales.The tool is designed to provide a framework for humanitarian workers and aid agencies to develop policies that are intersectional in terms of inclusivity by categories such as […]
Yemen Truce Monitor
Yemen Truce Monitor – ACLED (acleddata.com) Updated every Tuesday, this site tracks violations of the truce in Yemen which was agreed in April 2022. The site’s data are collected in partnership with the Yemen Data Project, which is tracking air raids during the truce. Subscribe for their weekly updates.
Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Dashboard
Peacebuilding Funding Dashboard, which was initially proposed in the Secretary-General’s report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace (A/72/707-S/2018/43). The dashboard contains data from over 900 projects, supported by UN peacebuilding initiatives since 2015. It can be filtered by year, region and subject and provides information on levels of investment. There isalso a visualisation of percentages spent […]
Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub
Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Government this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to gender-responsive disaster risk reduction and resilience. It includes sections with women’s voices, policy document trackers and regional resources. The WRD Library provides access to over 1,400 key resources (from PreventionWeb, UN Women and other sources) […]
Security Council: 2021 highlights
2021 Highlights of Security Council Practices The Security Council branch at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs have issued their online 2021 Highlights of Security Council Practices. It holds data on the number of meetings including numbers switched online, meeting attendees by gender and themes and content of meetings.
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