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Name: Dennis King, US Department of State, Humanitarian Information Unit
Proposed Title: Africa: Conflicts Without Borders
Project Description: Instead of the usual depiction of conflict as countrywide and defined by political/administrative boundar…
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Great Dennis! Looking forward to getting the updated shapefiles from you. Thanks!
Yes, we hope to get you the updated shapefiles next week - we are making final edits to the attribute datatext and metadata. It would be good to show off at the conference, and discuss a future collaborative project.
Dennis
Hi Dennis,
Would you be interested in us putting together another KML to show off at the conference?
JD
http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur/
Also released this week is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Crisis in Darfur" Google Earth website and initiative that includes updated data from the US Department of State. The new data show that more…
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/HHOO-7UCRPB?OpenDocument&rc=1
This map from the US Department of State’s Humanitarian Information Unit visualizes conflict in Africa as sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-commu…
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- Dennis King is a Senior Humanitarian Affairs Analyst at the US Department of State's Humanitarian Information Unit (2002 - present). Prior to this position, Mr. King worked for UNICEF Emergency Operations Center and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, where he was one of the developers and project managers of the ReliefWeb website. From 1990 - 1996, he worked for USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) as an information specialist and head of its Information Support Unit and worked in the Balkans and Africa. Mr. King received his Masters Degree at Columbia University, his Bachelors Degree from the University of Florida, and recently received a Graduate certificate in Knowledge Management from George Washington University. In October 2007, he served as Rapporteur at the UN Global Symposium +5 on Information for Humanitarian Action in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Crisis in Darfur; Destroyed and Damaged Villages 2003-2008
http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur/
Also released this week is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Crisis in Darfur" Google Earth website and initiative that includes updated data from the US Department of State. The new data show that more than 3300 villages have been damaged or destroyed in the Darfur region of Sudan, primarily between 2003 – 2005. This is more than twice the number that were identified in previous U.S. government assessments. The data also show that the level of destr… Continue
Also released this week is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Crisis in Darfur" Google Earth website and initiative that includes updated data from the US Department of State. The new data show that more than 3300 villages have been damaged or destroyed in the Darfur region of Sudan, primarily between 2003 – 2005. This is more than twice the number that were identified in previous U.S. government assessments. The data also show that the level of destr… Continue
Posted on August 3, 2009 at 9:26am —
Africa: Conflicts Without Borders 2009 from US Dept of State Humanitarian Information Unit
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/HHOO-7UCRPB?OpenDocument&rc=1
This map from the US Department of State’s Humanitarian Information Unit visualizes conflict in Africa as sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence that occurred in the first six months of 2009. Areas of conflict were drawn around locations of reported conflict incidents in 2009, as well as around concentrations of internally displaced persons inside affecte… Continue
This map from the US Department of State’s Humanitarian Information Unit visualizes conflict in Africa as sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence that occurred in the first six months of 2009. Areas of conflict were drawn around locations of reported conflict incidents in 2009, as well as around concentrations of internally displaced persons inside affecte… Continue
Posted on July 31, 2009 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments
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