Visualizing Yemen's Invisible War
About the CSO
The Yemen Peace Project is dedicated to supporting Yemeni individuals and organisations working to create positive change; advancing peaceful, constructive US policies toward Yemen; defending the rights of Yemenis in the diaspora; and increasing understanding of Yemen in the wider world.
The team
This project was created by Data4Change’s core staff and dataviz designer Surasti Puri, a Data4Change alumni who is the lead designer at Small Media Foundation.
About the topic
Situated on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen has long been the poorest country in the Arab world. Today it is the site of a horrific, internationalised civil war, and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
A look at the data
This project uses interviews collect by the Yemen Peace Project inside Yemen and uses a number of data sources, including data from the Yemen Data Project, an independent data collection project aimed at collecting and disseminating data on the conduct of the war in Yemen, with the purpose of increasing transparency and promoting accountability of the actors involved.
Their objectives
The Yemen Peace Project wanted to create a data-driven story that could be used to target individuals living in the US. It asks its readers to help end the war by contacting their members of Congress and urging them to support congressional efforts to end US support for the Saudi-led intervention. The story was also used by the Yemen Peace project to lobby members of Congress and their staff.
Results
Inspiration
Read more about how this projects evolved from a prototype at our 2016 workshop in Beirut to the campaign it eventually became. Surasti Puri reflects on her design decisions in a look behind the scenes.
