Casualty recording, documenting and memorialising practitioners

Around the globe there are numerous practitioners, often working in non-governmental organisations (NGOs), surmounting many difficulties and obstacles and doing all they can to ensure that the victims of armed violence are not forgotten but methodically and respectfully recorded.

These practitioners have now formed an association, the International Practitioner Network (IPN), in order to engage in the sharing of good practice and all the other benefits of professional peer exchange, mutual support and collaboration. The IPN members list includes organisations documenting casualties of armed conflicts and extensive breakdowns in security throughout the globe, some dealing with current crises, others with conflicts of the recent past.

IPN members are now engaging in a series of meetings and activities to boost their work and its profile, with everycasualty’s methods research project, largely drawing upon the IPN, contributing to the improvement of practice by systematically collating and documenting recording methodologies.