Acknowledgements
This report reflects the collective effort of many people. Wendy MacClinchy (CIVIC UN Director) and Lauren Spink (CIVIC Senior Research Advisor) managed the production of the report. Lauren Spink and Arnaaz Ameer (CIVIC Research Fellow) drafted the report narrative and several spotlight articles. Other CIVIC staff contributed additional spotlight articles—namely, Abigail Gérard Baldé (Peacekeeping Researcher), Madison Hunke (US Program Officer), and John Chappell (US Advocacy Advisor).
CIVIC undertook partnerships and collaborated with a number of other individuals and organizations to compile the spotlight content for the report, including: a Colombian human rights lawyer (who requested to remain anonymous); Central African journalist and photojournalist Annela Faustina Niamolo; the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI-Nigeria); the Sentinel project, who worked with South Sudanese researchers to conduct surveys and focus-group discussions on the spread of rumors and MDMH in the country; the University of Copenhagen; the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance; the Myanmar Protection Cluster; the Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence (SEMA); the Global Protection Cluster; the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED); Action for Sama; The Stimson Center; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict; and Rawadari. The Institute for Economics and Peace created the Civilian Protection Index for CIVIC and provided CIVIC with data on the number of media articles covering violence and conflict, which guided CIVIC’s analysis in the “Recognize” section of this report.
A number of CIVIC and external stakeholders reviewed and provided feedback on a draft of this report, including Annie Shiel (CIVIC US Advocacy Director), Dina El Mamoun (CIVIC Yemen Country Director), Josh Jorgensen (CIVIC UN and Peacekeeping Advisor), Kirsten Lodding (CIVIC UN Advisor), Marc Linning (CIVIC Senior Protection Advisor), Lisa Sharland (Stimson Center Senior Fellow and Director, Protection of Civilians and Human Security Program), and UN Department of Peace Operations officials. Elena Abbott copy edited the report. Solenn Robic provided design services for this web-based report and Antoine Venco was the web developer.
The funding for this project was provided by the Switzerland Confederation Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Peace and Human Rights Division. The views and opinions expressed in this study are those of CIVIC and the individual spotlight article authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the FDFA.