Crisis Monitor-a joint project led by ACLED and Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative-that tracks and publishes real-time data on political violence and demonstrations in the U.S in order to “establish an evidence base from which to identify risks, hotspots and available resources to empower local communities in times of crisis. The average trajectory of conflicts revealed in the research differs from past theories that hypothesized conflicts spread like forest fires, where a long buildup, such as tinder accumulating on the forest floor, is followed by a blaze of activity that reaches an apex and then dies out. It relied on data collection from the U.S. U.S.-based ACLED is funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations as well as foreign governments and other organizations, including the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Tableau Foundation, the International Organization for Migration, and The University of Texas at Austin. ACLED highlights a recent Morning Consult poll in which 42% of respondents believe “most protesters (associated with the BLM movement) are trying to incite violence or destroy property.” ACLED suggests this “disparity stems from political orientation and biased media framing… such as disproportionate coverage of violent demonstrations.” Still, many people continue to believe that Black Lives Matter protests are largely violent-contrary to the report’s findings.
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