Centre launches Pakistan Conflict Monitor
Tracey Carmichael, senior manager, E-resources, 778.782.8895; traceyc@sfu.ca
Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.4323
The Simon Fraser University-based Human Security Report Project (HSRP) has launched its first issue of the Pakistan Conflict Monitor.
The new Monitor will provide daily updates on the incidence of political violence in Pakistan and analyses of its causes and impacts on the wider region.
It also covers related issues such as health, development, displacement, governance, human rights, peacemaking and transitional justice.
Modeled on its highly successful Afghanistan Conflict Monitor (http://www.afghanconflictmonitor.org/), the HSRP expects that the Pakistan Conflict Monitor will become an equally trusted one-stop-shop for busy policy, research and media professionals who need to stay abreast of the issues.
“Our readers value the context we provide for news stories, the provision of different perspectives and the access we provide to background research and data,” says project director Andrew Mack.
The Pakistan Conflict Monitor is accessible free of charge at http://www.pakistanconflictmonitor.org/. Daily updates are available by email or RSS.
The HSRP is an independently funded research centre based at SFU’s School for International Studies.
The centre conducts research on global and regional trends in political violence, their causes and consequences and presents its findings in a manner that is accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public.
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