About Conflict Alert
Conflict Alert is a subnational conflict monitoring system that tracks the incidence, causes, and human costs of violent conflict in the Philippines. It aims to shape policymaking, development strategies, and peacebuilding approaches by providing relevant, robust, and reliable conflict data.
Publications
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Collusion or Collision? The War on Drugs in the Philippines
Why is there continued public support for the anti-drug war despite its failures, particularly from among those who are often…
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Why the proposed Anti-Terrorism Law will lead to wrongful arrests and more violence
The proposed Anti-Terrorism Law views the problem of terrorism purely through a security lens. International Alert is not against enacting…
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War Makes States
The Conflict Alert 2019 highlights the decline of violent conflict incidents in Muslim Mindanao after the Marawi war and amidst…
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Infographics: War and Identity
The year 2017 was a turning point in the magnitude of violent conflict in the Southern Philippines, amplified by…
CEMS Bulletin
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The lay of the land: Viral violence and the threat of a wider war (April & May 2020)
As Ramadhan ended and the government eased its lockdown measures, violent conflict continued to surge in the Bangsamoro. Among the…
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Special CEMS Bulletin on COVID-19 and Conflict (1 February – 17 April 2020)
Three sources of fragility have been the mainstays in the Bangsamoro prior to the current COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly shape…
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Inauspicious start to the year (January 2020)
As martial law ended at the close of 2019, the national government said Proclamation No. 55, which declared a state…
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Martial law gains diminishing (October-December 2019)
Martial law, first declared in May 2017 at the start of the Marawi Siege, ushered in a period of relative…