The Geopolitics of Sovereign Data

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SUMMARY: This report analyzes the severe media crackdown in Burundi following the failed 2015 coup, which has created a dangerous information vacuum. With independent domestic media silenced by President Nkurunziza's government, citizens and international observers lack reliable data to monitor the escalating violence and political repression. The article warns that this dearth of quality reporting not only means the crisis is globally under-reported but also risks allowing the situation to be mis-framed as a purely ethnic genocide, thereby constraining the prospects for effective international early warning and conflict prevention.

REFERENCE: This summary was AI generated. Full text originally published as: Tim Stevens, “Conflict early warning in Burundi,” Sovereign Data Vol 1. No. 6 (December 2015). ISSN: 2059-075X.

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