Associate Professor Annette Idler has published an article with colleagues exploring how interactive digital maps can transform the study of armed conflict. The article argues that interactive digital maps can reveal patterns, relationships and changes in conflict dynamics that are often missed by traditional text-based approaches. 

Drawing on case studies from Colombia, the Horn of Africa, Lake Chad, Myanmar, and Syria/Iraq, the authors show how these tools can support more collaborative, inclusive and reflexive forms of knowledge production, while offering new insights into how violence evolves across borders and regions.