Leveraging on-the-ground networks, investigative expertise & strengthened data integrity tools to resolve the most severe evidence and accountability gaps in contemporary war
Where
Humanity’s stakes are
HIGHEST
Evidence quality is
lowest
Conflict zones host the world’s most pressing challenges: Insecurity. Human rights atrocities. Climate change. Terrorist networks. Illicit markets. Strategic minerals. Economic underdevelopment. Misallocated foreign aid.
Yet global efforts in these settings rest on shaky foundations.
Armed actors mislead. Witnesses self-censor. Defectors keep quiet out of fear. These practices distort the basic “facts” of war, from armed actor identities to trafficking networks to patterns of violence. The result? A dangerous gap between information the world can reach and the reality kept underground. The consequence? Conflict prevention, humanitarian responses, economic development, and accountability efforts fail when they build on unreliable data on who fights, who suffers, and how violence unfolds.
The resulting credibility gap distorts the basis of legal cases, policy, and research.
Bridging the Credibility Gap from Both Ends.
From the ground up, we work with on-the-ground networks in warzones to document high-quality evidence that would never otherwise come to light. At the top, we apply our vantage behind frontlines to strengthen the foundations of global conflict data —strengthening evidence & accountability at every step of the chain.
Document
Strengthening evidence gathering at the source.
Supporting evidence gathering at the source.
We partner with frontline communities to convert direct observations of violence into gold-standard evidence on the world's most serious crimes:
Mass atrocities
Criminal trafficking
Paramilitary activities.
From insiders, whistleblowers, and witnesses.
Bridge
Bridging high-quality frontline evidence to courts, policy, and research
Bridging high-quality evidence
Most researchers, decision makers and prosecutors lack on-the-ground access to conflict zones.
We preserve and securely store high-quality evidence with chain-of-custody protocols. We move verified frontline evidence to courts, commissions, and decision makers to strengthen accountability to real-world people and events.
Strengthen
Applying frontline insights to strengthen global data integrity tools.
Applying frontline insights to strengthen global data integrity tools.
In warzones, even seemingly straightforward tasks—from identifying perpetrators, assessing alliances, to profiling organizational structures—are the very things that armed actors fight to keep silent. Without correctives, analysts risk amplifying strategic narratives that build militant power. We leverage our frontline vantage to deliver strengthened methods and data integrity tools.
Through
Frontline evidence strengthens the foundations of all work on conflict.
By delivering gold-standard documentation methods, bridging frontline evidence to high-level courts, policy and research, and innovating data integrity tools, we strengthen the global evidence base on conflict to advance accountability and promote effective pathways to peace.
A world where credible, grounded evidence can reduce violence, strengthen understanding, and check the power of those responsible for atrocity.
Work With Us
Evidence support, targeted documentation, and expert input for investigations and accountability proceedings.
Request Evidence SupportGrounded assessments of actors, access, and risk in environments where remote reporting is thin or actively manipulated.
Commission a BriefingIntegrity review of conflict datasets, methods training, and HUMINT-informed correction of attribution and event coding.
Strengthen Your DataSupport documentation capacity in the places where the evidence base is weakest and the stakes are highest.
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