
CEMS Bulletin
International Alert’s Critical Events Monitoring System (CEMS) is an SMS-based reporting system that captures conflict incidents and tensions in communities that may or may not lead to the eruption of violence. It is used by its Early Response Network (ERN), a group of men and women in various localities in the Bangsamoro, who share real-time information and work with local governments, key agencies, the security sector, and religious and traditional leaders in coordinating quick and context-specific responses to tensions, violent conflicts, disasters, and displacement, as they happen. Command posts are led by our local partners TASBIKKa, Inc., ERN Lanao del Sur, MARADECA, Inc., and Lupah Sug Bangsamoro Women Association, Inc.


Special CEMS Bulletin on COVID-19 and Conflict (1 February – 17 April 2020)

Inauspicious start to the year (January 2020)

Martial law gains diminishing (October-December 2019)

A worrying turn of events in Lanao del Sur (September 2019)

Bangsamoro confronts NPA, ISIS, and weather threats (July & August 2019)

No honeymoon period for Bangsamoro’s newly elected leaders (June 2019)

Political rivalries unleash cycle of retribution (May 2019)

Heightened tensions and conflicts as dry season and campaign period set in (April 2019)
