Data-based approach to conflict prevention and management in Rakhine State - Knowledge Hub Myanmar (KHM)

MYANMAR

Knowledge Hub Myanmar (KHM) is a non-profit research institute dedicated to promoting peacebuilding, stability, and democracy in Myanmar, focusing on doing research and policy advocacy in areas prone to conflict. The project seeks to be able to produce more robust situation analyses that are also informed by community perception. The specific focus on violent incidents in Rakhine State and the inclusion of community perception into the analyses distinguish KHM Violence Monitoring from similar projects by other organizations. Through this Violence Monitoring project, KHM established sustainable data collection and developed a well-structured and coded database of violent incidents in Rakhine State. It has worked to track the incidents, compile village demographic profiles, and lead spatial mapping and population data collection to better understand the dynamics.

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Freedom of Expression is a must! - Press House – Palestine*

PALESTINE*

Press House-Palestine* is an independent, non-profit Palestinian media institution, established through an initiative by a group of independent journalists to promote freedom of opinion and expression, support independent media and provide legal protection for journalists in Palestine*. "Freedom of Expression is a Must" initiative, aimed to strengthen freedom of expression in Palestine* by empowering journalists, promoting independent media, and fostering open dialogue. The project's goals include enhancing journalist safety, providing capacity-building programs, supporting independent media outlets, promoting freedom of expression, and advocating for media freedom and legal reforms. To ensure journalist safety, the initiative had conducted safety training workshops, establish a support network and helpline, and document violations against journalists while advocating for their protection. Capacity building programs offered training on investigative reporting, digital skills, ethics, and responsible reporting. To promote freedom of expression and dialogue, public events, seminars, and conferences have encouraged open discussions, diverse opinions, and collaboration with educational institutions for media literacy programs.

* This designation shall not be construed as recognition of a State of Palestine and is without prejudice to the individual positions of Council of Europe member States on this issue.

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DDLD Living Archive - Defensores de la Democracia (DDLD)

MEXICO

The main goal of the organisation is to prevent violence against journalists in Mexico, one of the most lethal countries for reporters. The DDLD Living Archive is the first online, public, searchable archive that preserves, catalogues and aggregates the work of killed journalists in Mexico. Before they created the archive, the work produced by slain local journalists in Mexico was wither scattered in basements across the country or was quickly disappearing; most of this work was published by journalists who founded their own media outlet and published precariously. Some merely posted on social media, others had a blog or a website and some more printed and photocopied their own makeshift newspapers to offer around town. Their archive aims to preserve the work as a means to honor their legacy, while becoming a tool that we can analyze in order to find trends to better understand patterns of violence against reporters.

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Diversity Atlas - Cultural Infusion

AUSTRALIA

Cultural Infusion produces and delivers a range of innovative digital products and interactive education experiences that reach an annual audience of more than 350,000 school students across the globe, working closely with a diverse talent pool of artists and cultural educators. Launched in 2019, Diversity Atlas is the world’s first and only holistic approach to diversity data collection and analysis, and the only approach likely to lead to fully inclusive outcomes for any organisation creating strategies, policies and plans in their communities. It relies on a voluntary, anonymised, customisable short (4- to 5-minute) online survey that is instantly processed to produce a profile of an organisation’s collective culture. It has been implemented in at least 32 countries worldwide. Its database includes every known culture, secular and non-secular tradition and language, amounting to more than 42,000 identity markers. It also measures variety, disparity and balance within organisations. Diversity Atlas’s methodology and definition of cultural diversity were based on more than 300 literature reviews. Its data structure allows analysis of key metrics of diversity, including variety, balance, disparity and mutuality (the degree to which an organisation reflects a community), all concepts underpinned by algorithms. We continually improve and update our datasets in consultation with communities and subject experts.

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