We help map the conflicting arguments, which will, hopefully, lead to more informed decisions.
Syria: Mapping the conflict.
Caerus Associates, a research consultancy entity, with the technological help from First Mile Geo, which provides online data collection, analysis and sharing services, mapped the dynamics of the conflict in Aleppo in 2014 (Caerus 2014; Mapping the conflict in Aleppo 2014).
Other outlets, including the New York Times, are using data from the Carter Center, which has been mapping the conflict using information from activists and other on-the-ground contacts, as well as videos posted on social media. .
An interactive, city-by-city map of the conflict, updated Wednesday afternoon, is here.
Earlier in March, a volunteer task force used it to generate a comprehensive crisis map for the conflict in Libya.
Once you have a comprehensive map of the conflict, then you start a participatory process with the different stakeholders, trying creatively to envision the future that they want and develop some scenarios to get from the current impasse to that desired state.
The most popular man in the newly reborn Republic of Armenia is Raffi Hovannisian, 32, the globe-trotting foreign minister bent on putting his country on the diplomatic map, ending the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and making sure Armenia's tragic history is not repeated.
Some would surely consider drawing up an international "road map" to resolve the conflict.
Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York described the bill Congress passed and sent to Mr. Bush as the best possible road map to ending the conflict.
