Posted on

Berto Jongman: Free Publication Understanding and Tackling Violence Outside of Armed Conflict Settings

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
0Shares
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Understanding and Tackling Violence Outside of Armed Conflict Settings

Lind, J. and Mitchell, B.

IDS Policy Briefing 37

Download this publication free of charge

Understanding and tackling violence that occurs outside of armed conflict settings is essential to improving the wellbeing of some of the world’s poorest communities.

Whilst advances have been made in terms of designing policies that address violence in fragile or conflict-affected countries, progress has been slower in relation to dealing with violence happening outside of these settings.

New forms of violence, such as organised crime and political instability, often arise in states which have undergone rapid economic growth and social transformation. These forms of violence are difficult to address because they are part of the very structures and processes that drive and shape development.

Fresh approaches are required. They need to be driven by communities, civil society and young people, as well as the state and international donors. They must also be underpinned by a better understanding of how violence affects the poor and what works in terms of interventions.

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Free Publication Understanding and Tackling Violence Outside of Armed Conflict Settings”

Posted on

Patrick Meier: Boston Marathon Explosions: Analyzing First 1,000 Seconds on Twitter

Crowd-Sourcing, Geospatial, Governance, Resilience
0Shares
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

Boston Marathon Explosions: Analyzing First 1,000 Seconds on Twitter

My colleagues Rumi Chunara and John Brownstein recently published a short co-authored study entitled “Twitter as a Sentinel in Emergency Situations: Lessons from the Boston Marathon Explosions.” At 2.49pm EDT on April 15, two improvised bombs exploded near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. Ambulances left the scene approximately 9 minutes later just as public health authorities alerted regional emergency departments of the incident.

Read full post with graphics and links.

Posted on

Neal Rauhauser: Kenya Tweet Force

Advanced Cyber/IO
0Shares

 

Neal Rauhauser
Neal Rauhauser

@KTF_press : Cyberwarriors Of Kenya

I get a lot of strange stuff in my inbox that’s just not appropriate here, but today was an exception. Someone asked a question and part of the answer was “Kenya Tweet Force”, an irregular cybermilitia supporting the Kenyan government against al Shabaab in Somalia. Their Twitter account, @KTF_press, was only following five others, so this was a good starting clue.

Read full post with graphics and links.

Posted on

Berto Jongman: Activity Based Intelligence — with NSA-NGA Merger Coming Along Nicely

Advanced Cyber/IO
0Shares
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Activity-Based Intelligence Uses Metadata to Map Adversary Networks

Gabriel Miller

Defense News, 8 July 2013

Few outside the intelligence community had heard of activity-based intelligence until December, when the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency awarded BAE Systems $60 million to develop products based on this newish methodology. But ABI, which focuses not on specific targets but on events, movements and transactions in a given area, is rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for understanding adversary networks and solving quandaries presented by asymmetrical warfare and big data.

Indeed, ABI is the type of intelligence tool that could be applied to the vast wash of metadata and internet transactions gathered by the NSA programs that were disclosed in June by a whistle-blower.

Full story below the line.

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Activity Based Intelligence — with NSA-NGA Merger Coming Along Nicely”

Posted on

Owl: People as Co-Conspirators in Own Demise

Cultural Intelligence
0Shares
Who? Who?
Who? Who?

The “People” (Much of the the 99%) Are Co-Conspirators with the Elite (the 1%) in Their Own Demise

“Are we too stupid to continue as a nation?  That may seem like a harsh question, but I think that it is one that we need to ask.  Even though we have more access to information today than ever before, it seems like the U.S. population just keeps becoming more ignorant.  So at what point does a society become so “dumbed-down” that it can no longer function effectively?  We like to complain about our leaders, but the truth is that we are the ones that elected them.  They are a reflection of who we are as a society.  And when you compare Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner to men like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, they don’t fare too well.  Sadly, the truth is that most of our founding fathers would not have a prayer of being elected today.  Instead, they would be labeled as crazy “extremists” for insisting that we follow the U.S. Constitution.  In our entertainment-addicted society, Lady Gaga would have a much greater chance of being elected president today than George Washington would.  That is how far we have fallen.”

Five randomly selected survey results mentioned in article:

#1 One survey found that 56 percent of Americans believe that it is okay for the government to track “the telephone records of millions of Americans” in order to keep us safe.  Apparently those people have never heard of the Fourth Amendment.

#7 29 percent of Americans believe that “cloud computing” involves an actual cloud.

#10 According to a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society, only 37 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can find the nation of Iraq on a map.

#11 Close to 25 percent of all Americans do not know that the United States declared independence from Great Britain.

#14 Approximately one out of every five teenage girls in the United States actually wants to be a teenage mother.

For the others:

19 Surveys Which Prove That A Large Chunk Of The Population Is Made Up Of Totally Clueless Sheeple