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Africa: Conflict Without Borders Google Earth Mash-Up

Visualizing conflict in Africa as sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence in 2009.

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Africa: Conflict Without Borders Google Earth Mash-Up

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  1. Africa: Conflict Without BordersGoogle Earth Mash-Up

  2. Usual Conflict Map

  3. Africa: Conflicts Without Borders Instead of the usual depiction of conflicts as countrywide and defined by national boundaries, this map visualizes conflict in Africa as sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence that occurred so far in 2009.  Areas of conflict were drawn around locations of reported conflict incidents in 2008 - 2009, as well as concentrations of internally displaced persons and cross-border rebel bases and refugee camps in neighboring countries.  This depiction of areas of conflict more accurately displays where conflict has been occurring in Africa and the sub-national and transnational nature of these conflicts. 

  4. Africa: Conflicts Without Borders Static Poster Map

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  10. Future Plans for Conflict Map • Link to spatial database for fast updating of conflict areas and attributes • Incorporate other data layers, such as water and natural resources • Build into a browser-based application for easier viewing by the public

  11. State/INR/HIU collaborative relationships with UN, NGOs, academia • UN – Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (ReliefWeb, IRIN, Humanitarian Information Centers), UNOSAT, UNHCR, WFP, FAO, etc. • NGOs – InterAction, Information Management and Mine Action Programs (IMMAP), US Holocaust Museum Genocide Crisis in Darfur Project, NiJel • Academia – Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Tufts University, Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

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