BY PATRICIA TAFT* The following report summarizes the main findings as detailed in three memos, produced during the second quarter of data collection and analysis. Because this project began mid-year (the first monthly memo covered the month of May, and the first Quarterly Report covered the months of May-July) this second Quarterly Report covers the […]
Category Archives: People
Violence Affecting Women and Girls Monthly Memo – October 2014
- 17 November 2014
This memo focuses specifically on the month of October (data coding and uploading lags by a month) for the eight NSRP focus states: Borno, Yobe, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta.
Violence Affecting Women and Girls Monthly Memo – September 2014
- 12 November 2014
This memo focuses specifically on the month of September (data coding and uploading lags by a month) for the eight NSRP focus states: Borno, Yobe, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta.
Lessons from Nigeria’s Successful Ebola Containment
- 12 November 2014
BY SOFIA SCOTT With the arrival of the first case of Ebola in the United States in September, panic spread nationwide. Meanwhile Nigeria, located much closer to three main epicenters of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, managed to stop the spread of the disease in a nation numbering more than 170 million people. […]
Violence Affecting Women and Girls Monthly Memo – August 2014
- 07 October 2014
This memo focuses specifically on the month of August (data coding and upload lags by a month) for the eight NSRP focus states: Borno, Yobe, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta.
Violence Affecting Women and Girls Quarterly Report 1
- 10 September 2014
BY PATRICIA TAFT* The following report summarizes the main findings as detailed in three memos, produced during the first quarter of data collection and analysis. The first report, produced in July, contained a detailed baseline analysis of violent incidents and VAWG from 2009 through January 2014. The second memo analyzed the first quarter of 2014 […]
Violence Affecting Women and Girls Monthly Memo – July 2014
- 09 September 2014
This memo focuses specifically on the month of July (data coding and upload lags by a month) for the eight NSRP focus states: Borno, Yobe, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers, Bayelsa, and Delta.
“The Eyes of the World Are Watching.” They Sure Are, Governor.
- 20 August 2014
BY J.J. MESSNER It is easy to view the unfolding events in Ferguson, Missouri as an inherently domestic issue. Much of the domestic analysis so far has characterized this violence as reminiscent of decades past – or lands far away. In the words of Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri, “The eyes of the world are […]
The MDGs: Paving the Way to Human Security
- 14 August 2014
BY KRISTA HENDRY As we approach the last 500 days to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), I want to reflect upon what they actually mean for our work at The Fund for Peace. Our mission is to understand the underlying conditions of conflict in order to build practical solutions to address them with all […]
July 2014 Conflict Bulletins Now Available for Niger Delta States
- 12 August 2014
BY NATE HAKEN AND MARCELA AGUIRRE In partnership with PIND, The Fund for Peace collects data from a range of sources to cross-validate trends and track patterns of conflict risk at the state and local levels, which is then displayed on the P4P Peace Map.