Just published the first update to PolGeoNow's professional #Syria control map report in over a year. More info: https://www.polgeonow.com/2023/07/syria-who-controls-what-2023.html

#conflictmapping #conflicttracking #conflictmap #MENA #OSINT #conflictzones #geopolitics @geopolitics @geography

"In conflict zones around the world, violence and threats against hospitals, health care facilities and their personnel reached a grim milestone in 2022, according to a new report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC). It documented 1,989 such incidents last year — a 45% increase over 2021 and the worst total number since the group began tracking the data a decade ago."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/06/09/1180753013/2022-was-the-worst-year-on-record-for-attacks-on-health-care-workers

#healthcare #violence #conflictzones

Some in-depth #politicalgeography research from Small Arms Survey on the situation in #SouthSudan's #Warrap state, where it says 3 years after country's peace deal, security is controlled mainly by traditional cattle guards amid government failure: https://smallarmssurvey.org/resource/and-everything-became-war-warrap-state-signing-r-arcss #geography #conflicttracking #politicalscience #conflictzones #governance #security

Panel: "Decolonising Psychiatry: Mental Health in Conflict Zones" live now!

Lamia Moghnieh (@DECOLMAD), @ramaglajlic, Donato Zupin. Moderated by Aouefa Amoussouvi

https://youtu.be/1IUGsEMfCJA

#MADNESS #decolonise #psychiatry #mentalhealth #conflictzones

Support for journalists, media professionals and defenders of freedom of expression, who are in crisis and conflict zones abroad or are now in exile in Germany.  

https://akademie.dw.com/en/hannah-arendt-initiative-new-network-to-protect-journalists-around-the-world/a-63474841

#journalism #conflictzones #freedomofexpression #germany