The International Practitioner Network (IPN)

There are an increasing number of organisations, many locally-based, working to collect, record, and properly memorialise the individual victims of armed violence around the world. A notable feature of their work in the past was that each operated in relative isolation, largely unaffected by similar work going on elsewhere. There was a clear need, expressed by practitioners themselves, for a platform allowing such organisations to network productively with each other and share common problems, solutions and aspirations.

In 2009 the everycasualty programme at Oxford Research Group began to facilitate and provide the administrative support for a newly-founded International Practitioner Network of casualty recorders – the IPN. The network's purpose is to empower its members and enhance their work through peer exchange and communication, collaboration and finding a common voice.

The IPN's activities include meetings and participation in research on methods and good practice, and providing an authentic mandate to initiatives such as the everycasualty Charter. Its aspiration is to raise the profile and maximise the social benefit of the network members’ often difficult and dangerous work.

On the 25th of November 2009, the twenty founding members of the IPN released its first joint communiqué on the goals and principles driving the network.

For more information about the network, or if you are a casualty recorder and are interested in joining, please contact the team.

Members of the IPN

Action on Armed Violence

Action on Armed Violence (previously Landmine Action) is a not-for-profit organisation committed to good governance and the development of civil society through the promotion of international humanitarian law, the relief of poverty and the empowerment of communities marginalised by conflict. Their Explosive Violence Monitoring Project records casualties caused by explosive weapons at the global level. more...

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission was established in June 2002 to independently monitor human rights abuses throughout the country. more...

        

Amnesty International, Pakistan Team

Amnesty International is an independent international human rights organization working to protect human rights worldwide. The Pakistan Team of Amnesty International, records data on human rights violations relating to conflict and violence in Pakistan's north-west and Balochistan province. more...

Afghanistan Rights Monitor

Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) is an independent and impartial Afghan rights watchdog which monitors, investigates and reports human rights violations and other rights-related issues and events from across Afghanistan. more...

Armed Conflict Research and Documentation Project

Based at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, the Armed Conflict Research and Documentation Project (ACRDP) was initiated by the Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management. The ACRDP is running a project to quantify the impact of conflict on the northeastern Indian province of Manipur. more...

B’Tselem

As part of its work on human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem documents and publishes the details of casualties on its website. more...

Bureau of Investigative Journalism

The London-based not-for-profit, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, records casualties of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan as part of its broader coverage of the US covert ‘war on terror.’ more...

Conflict Analysis Resource Center

The Conflict Analysis Resource Centre (CERAC) is a private research organization specialising in data-intensive studies of conflict and criminal violence within Colombia. more...

Conflict Monitoring Center

The Conflict Monitoring Center (CMC) is an Islamabad based independent research centre presently focused on interstate and intrastate armed conflicts in different countries of South Asia. more...

Darfur Peace and Development Organisation

DPDO is based in the USA and Sudan, and records casualties as part of its programme of documenting the crisis in Darfur. more...

Documenta

Documenta encourages the process of dealing with the past in Croatia, through the documentation and investigation of prewar, wartime and postwar events. more...

Elman Peace

Elman Peace is a Mogadishu-based NGO working towards the promotion of peace and stability through human rights initiatives. more...

Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation

FAFG focuses on resolving unsolved killings from the Guatemalan Civil War, systematically and forensically documenting them in order to improve human rights. more...

Handicap International

Handicap International-Belgium (HI-B) is an international, non-governmental organization with primary focus on the prevention of disabilities and providing support for people with disabilities, including in emergency situations, e.g., in the aftermath of natural disasters and humanitarian crises. more...

Human Rights Center

Non-governmental organization the Human Rights Center, formerly Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (HRIDC) was founded on December 10, 1996 in Tbilisi, Georgia. more...

Humanitarian Law Centre, Kosovo

The office of the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) is working to document facts that will assist Kosovo society to deal with the recent past, while at the same time promoting the protection of minority rights. more...

Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia

The HLC is dedicated to campaigning for the rights of victims of war crimes, and society, to know the truth about what happened to them and their loved ones during the break-up of Yugoslavia. more...

Iniskoy for Peace and Democracy Organisation

Iniskoy for Peace and Democracy Organisation (IPDO) promotes peace in Somalia and monitors Human Rights violations including civilian casualties as a result of armed violence.. more...

INSAN

INSAN is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation that works on human rights, democracy and development. Currently, INSAN records conflict casualties within Syria. more...

INSEC

INSEC has been ardently involved in the protection and promotion of Human Rights in Nepal for more than one and a half decades. more...

Institute for Conflict Management

The Institute for Conflict Management (ICM) is a non-Profit Society set up in 1997 in New Delhi, and is committed to the continuous evaluation and resolution of problems of internal security in South Asia. more...

International Commission on Missing Persons

The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) was established at the initiative of U.S. President Clinton in 1996 at the G-7 Summit in Lyon, France. Its primary role is to ensure the cooperation of governments in locating and identifying those who have disappeared during armed conflict or as a result of human rights violations. more...

Iraq Body Count

Iraq Body Count (IBC) is an ongoing human security project which maintains and updates the world’s largest public database of violent civilian deaths during and since the 2003 invasion. more...

LRA Crisis Tracker

A joint project of Invisible Children and Resolve, the LRA Crisis Tracker is a real-time mapping platform and data collection system created to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to the atrocities of the Lord’s Resistance Army. more...

NAMRIGHTS

NAMRIGHTS – formerly the National Society for Human Rights – was founded in 1989, on the eve of Namibia’s independence. It researches deaths which occurred during or since the independence struggle. more...

NigeriaWatch

Created in 2006 by a researcher at the IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement), NigeriaWatch monitors violence and lethal conflicts in Nigeria. more...

Organisation for Somalis’ Protection and Development

The Organisation for Somalis’ Protection and Development are an independent body based in Mogadishu. They work closely with other Somali organisations to document casualties in the country. more...

Pak Institute for Peace Studies

PIPS is an independent think-tank committed to providing in-depth and objective analyses of a variety of global and regional issues. Its work on casualty recording is focused in particular on Pakistan and South Asia. more...

Pakistan Body Count

Run by Dr. Zeeshan Usmani, PBC seeks to provide a reliable and authentic single source of casualties of suicide bombings and drones within Pakistan. more...

Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team

The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) is a non-profit organisation that promotes the right to truth, justice, and guarantees of non-repetition in cases of forced disappearance and extrajudicial execution. more...

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

The PCHR is an NGO based in Gaza City. It is dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law and upholding democratic principles in the Occupied Territories. more...

Research and Documentation Center of Sarajevo

RDC are a Bosnian NGO whose main task is to investigate and gather facts, documents and data on genocide and other war crimes committed during the Bosnian War. more...

Somali Human Rights Association

The Somali Human Rights Association – SOHRA – was founded in March 2002 and is based in Mogadishu. more...

Tamil Information Centre

TIC is a non-profit organisation based in London, UK, whose mission is to address the challenges that face the Tamil speaking community in Sri Lanka, particularly those suffering persecution and subjected to human rights abuses. more...