NiJeL’s work on the Beatitudes Center DOAR Map was recently featured on the Lifetime Channel during the Walgreen’s Health Corner show on Feburary 15. This show will be aired again on April 19, but if you can’t wait that long to watch it, you can find the video here:

http://healthcorner.walgreens.com/display/2242.htm

Therese Davis, the coordinator of services at Beatitudes Center DOAR, and Kathy, a volunteer in Phoenix, give a rousing endoresemnt of our web-based map, which we greatly appreciate. Thank you!!

We have created a Google Earth file highlighting Conflicts in Africa from 2007-2008. This file was produced with data from the state department’s Humanitarian Information Unit and in collaboration with Patrick Meier, a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. The Google Earth file shows regions where Armed Conflict, Inter-Communal Strife, and Political Violence have taken place. Patrick has previously blogged about this work on his blog iRevolution.

The original HIU data were provided to us a GIS shapefile, which we converted into KML for viewing in Google Earth.

You can download the KMZ Google Earth file here:

http://nijel.org/conflict_map/Africa_Conflicts_Without_Borders.kmz

And the original HIU pdf map of “Africa: Conflicts Without Borders 2007-2008″ here:

http://nijel.org/conflict_map/hiu_cwob_v081110_300dpi4.pdf