BANGLADESH PEACE OBSERVATORY

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To advance the understanding of peace and tolerance

THROUGH

DATA INSIGHTS

Project funded by UNDP
Bangladesh

Designing effective responses to public policy challenges is heavily dependent on evidence. Evidence is dependent on good data. In the present day “Open Data” is the future. More data has been produced globally in the last two years than in the previous 3000 years of human activity. Most of this data is openly accessible. Therefore, the future challenge for decision-makers is not finding data: the challenge is efficiently managing and digesting the explosion of public data.

The challenge

The Bangladesh Peace Observatory (BPO) is a response to the challenge. The BPO is a research facility funded by UNDP, Bangladesh, which seeks to harness the power of Open Data to advance knowledge and understanding of peace and development in the country. The BPO will focus on the pressing and interconnected issues of the youth bulge, violence prevention, and social cohesion. The Bangladesh Peace Observatory brings together different streams of publicly available data on violence, analyses and visualizes them in a useful and interactive way for decision makers, civil society and media to understand, consume, and debate.

The response

BANGLADESH PEACE OBSERVATORY

PLATFORM

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The Bangladesh Peace Observatory is a virtual platform equipped with mapping and data analytics technology that informs users on the state of violence – political, ethnic, communal, criminal, gender-based, as well as extremist – and other forms of discord in terms of time, space and themes.

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The Bangladesh Peace Observatory brings together different streams of publicly available data, analyses and visualizes them in a useful and interactive way for decision makers, civil society and media to understand, consume, and debate.

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The Bangladesh Peace Observatory seeks to support a wide range of actors in making better public policy decisions, tailored interventions and programming, enhanced research, and effective advocacy campaigning for social cohesion and peace development based on evidence and data.

ADVISORY GROUP

Stop Violence Coalition Stop Violence Coalition
Bangladesh Police Bangladesh Police
National Defense College National Defense College
CA CA
SEHD Society for Environment and Human Development
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Daily Star
ActionAid

SUPPORTED BY UNDP

Disclaimer

Data are open source and based on limited review of print and online media in Bangladesh. There may be errors in data collection, validation and/or reporting.

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