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Militia Involvement/Presence in "Stop the Steal" Demonstrations (4-28 November 2020) 

 With ‘Stop the Steal’ demonstrations, there has already been disproportionate engagement by militia groups relative to other protests: militia groups have participated in 18% of all ‘Stop the Steal’ demonstrations, while they have engaged in less than 1% of all other demonstrations 

Nearly all Black Lives Matter protests are peaceful despite Trump narrative, report finds | Black Lives Matter movement | The Guardian

In stark contrast to rightwing claims, 93% of demonstrations have involved no serious harm to people or property

Source: Nearly all Black Lives Matter protests are peaceful despite Trump narrative, report finds | Black Lives Matter movement | The Guardian

ACSS: Violence Against Civilians Is On The Rise In Africa

Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) says militant Islamic group activity in Africa has doubled since 2012 and that those groups are increasingly targeting civilians.

The center released, earlier this year, an analysis of violent trends in Africa over the past decade which, that showed violence targeting civilians was at its highest level last year since 2012 as a proportion of all reported…

ACLED 2018: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.

Executive Summary

“Disorder is spreading. While the overall scale of political violence slightly decreased in 2018, the scope expanded. Political violence and protest surged in more countries than they declined, and the total number of conflict-affected areas rose sharply around the world. Close-proximity violence against civilians escalated, and half the countries across Africa, South & Southeast Asia, and the Middle East witnessed an increase in reported violent deaths.”

“A review of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) 2018 dataset demonstrates that the global political violence landscape has substantially shifted over the past year, registering distinct threat patterns across each region of ACLED coverage. The number and type of organized violence and protest events; the volume of reported fatalities; the proliferation of armed actors; and the geographic footprint of violence – all vary markedly across time and location.”

ACLED 2018: The Year in Review surveys and contextualizes these trends, providing a comprehensive look back at a year of evolving disorder.

2018: Children pay the heaviest price in conflict

“Children continue to pay a high price in today’s global conflicts. The recruitment and use of children remains a hallmark of war and the UN Secretary-General’s 2018 annual report, released in June, listed 56 non-state armed groups and seven state armed forces for recruiting and using child soldiers in 2017.”

The power of mindfulness in a war zone

“After more than a year conducting mindfulness workshops in South Sudan, Paula Ramirez is struck by how emotionally shut off many aid workers in the country have become. Ramirez is the co-founder of Swiss-based NGO Breathe International, which promotes mindfulness for peacebuilding in conflict-affected areas, and has spent 13 years working around the world. She has helped survivors of torture, sexual assault, and landmines, as well as school teachers and those who have been internally displaced, affected by conflict in countries such as India, Thailand, Nepal, and Colombia.”

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ACLED - Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

ACLED is a disaggregated conflict analysis and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects and analyzes data on locations, dates and types of all reported armed conflict and protest events in developing countries.

The ACLED project codes reported information on the type, agents, exact location, date, and other characteristics of political violence events, demonstrations and select politically relevant non-violent events. ACLED focuses on tracking a range of violent and non-violent actions by political agents, including governments, rebels, militias, communal groups, political parties, external actors, rioters, protesters and civilians. Data contain specific information on the date, location, group names, interaction type, event type, reported fatalities and contextual notes.

ACLED concentrates on the following events:

Tracking rebel, militia and government activity over time and space;

Recording violent acts between and across non-state groups, including political and communal militias;

Recording political violence by unnamed agents, as violent groups may remain unnamed for strategic reasons

Recording attacks on civilians by all violent political agents;

Distinguishing between territorial transfers of military control from governments (and their affiliates) to non-state agents and vice versa;

Locating rebel, militia and government bases, headquarters, strongholds and presence;

Collecting information on rioting and protesting; and

Non-violent ‘strategic developments’ representing crucial junctures in periods of political violence (e.g. rallies, recruitment drives, peace talks, high-level arrests).