Mapping Attacks On Aid Workers

Despite their charitable utilization aid workers facial expression upwardly increasing levels of threat when carrying out their work. IRIN as well as Humanitarian Outcomes accept mapped global aid worker attacks from 2000 until the halt of May 2015. In those fifteen years, over 3,000 aid workers accept been killed, injured or kidnapped. The Aid Worker Attacks map allows y'all to explore where as well as when aid workers accept been attacked since 2000.

When the map kickoff opens y'all are presented amongst an animated timeline of aid attacks over time. The map attempts to avoid the 'flashing dots' syndrome of a lot of animated timeline maps past times zooming inwards on temporal hotspots of aid worker attacks. For example, when the timeline reaches 2007, the map zooms inwards on Somalia to explicate how the ascent of the Al Shabaab extremist grouping resulted inwards an increase inwards aid worker attacks.

As the timeline animation plays a bar nautical chart at the bottom of the map too shows the unwrap of aid worker attacks past times quarter. Once the animation has finished y'all tin explore the choropleth map of global aid worker attacks for the whole fifteen years. If y'all click on a dry reason the map volition zoom inwards as well as the bar graph volition update to present the unwrap of attacks inwards the dry reason past times quarter for the entire fifteen years.