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Organization / Affiliation
International Network of Crisis Mappers, CM*Net
Website
http://www.jenziemke.net/
Email
jen@crisismappers.net
Keywords / Tags (expertise, interests)
Violent processes in war; spatial econometrics; battlespace dynamics; space-time analysis; civilian targeting in war; spatial thinking in the social sciences; Angola; (counter)insurgency and civil war; Africa; human rights.
Bio
Together with Patrick Meier, Jen is the co-founder of the International Network of Crisis Mappers (CM*Net) and the co-organizer of the International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) series.

Jen received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Relations at John Carroll University (JCU). She is also a Crisis Mapping Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI).

Jen teaches courses on conflict processes, African politics, crisis mapping, spatial thinking in the social sciences, international security, and other courses in international relations. She was also a fellow at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and continues her work as a volunteer for Amnesty International, USA as Angola and Namibia country specialist. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer on the Namibian side of the Angolan border from 1997-1999.
Project(s)
Jen's research applies spatial and temporal econometric analysis, dynamic visualization, and in-depth historical and archival research to develop unique crisis maps that reveal underlying conflict processes. She recently employed these techniques to carry out the most comprehensive data-driven study of the Angolan civil war ever produced. For this project, she coded and geo-referenced some 10,000 conflict events spanning all 41 years of this violent war using hundreds of sources and a detailed exhumation of Portuguese newspaper archives. Not only is this dataset the world’s most comprehensive dataset on the Angolan civil war, it is one of the largest and most detailed micro-level conflict datasets available in the field of crisis mapping.

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IRIN: Kenya SOS by SMS

NAIROBI, 3 August 2010 (IRIN) - In a nondescript room on the 14th floor of a Nairobi office block, the words “hate speech” appear on a computer screen next to the name of a prominent politician, with location, a telephone number and buttons marked “Not verified” and “Follow-up”. Another message reads: “If you think peace is expensive, try violence!” Yet another says: “Plz help us. A certContinue

Posted on August 3, 2010 at 10:00am —

jen ziemke

"Crisis mapping brings X-ray style clarity to humanitarian response": Reuters AlertNet

Crisis mapping brings X-ray style clarity to humanitarian response
Written by Astrid Zweynert
12 October 2009


LONDON (AlertNet) - In the chaos that usually follows a natural disaster, taking the time to create maps may seem low down on the priority list when a rapid response is key to helping to save lives.

But mapping and the humanitarian response meet when important questions are asked in the aftermath of a disaster, such as: "Where are the affected populations? Where can they be evac… Continue

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 9:15pm —

jen ziemke

Please check here to see if you are registered for ICCM 2009!

The goal of the First International Conference on Crisis Mapping (ICCM) is to be the premiere expert conference on Crisis Mapping. ICCM 2009 will thus bring together the most engaged crisis-mapping practitioners, scholars and platform developers from around the world to showcase and advance the cutting edge of Crisis Mapping.

We are excited by our list of confirmed participants. Click Continue

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 12:30pm —

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