Remarks OPV Monitor gives you verified, structured intelligence on political violence — helping you understand what happened, identify who is involved, recognize emerging signals, assess wider implications, and monitor what matters.
Quick Start
~10 minutes
Seven steps that take you from a blank screen to a fully active monitoring setup. Follow along in the Monitor as you go.
The Overview is the Monitor's home page. It shows total incident volume, country-level pressure scores, recent incidents, and sector outlook — all in one view. Start here every session to orient yourself before diving deeper. Look at which countries have elevated pressure, whether incident volume is rising or falling, and which sectors are under stress.
Try it now
Check today's situation: how many incidents are recorded in the current timeframe? Which country shows the highest pressure?
Use Cases
Remarks OPV is built around real analytical goals. Choose what matters to you and learn how the Monitor helps you do it.
Something happened. What happened, where, and who was involved?
Find the verified incident record, read the full structured detail — actors, location, consequences, and sources — and follow connections to related events and actors.
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What has this actor been involved in and who are they connected to?
Open an actor's full profile to see their documented incident history, organizational affiliations, network connections, and any active signals involving them.
Is activity becoming more serious or changing?
Track trends in incident volume, severity, and actor activity — and read analyst assessments of whether the situation is escalating, stabilizing, or shifting.
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How could current political violence affect a sector or supply chain?
Quantify direct sector impact from incidents, then trace how disruption propagates downstream through connected sectors and supply chains.
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I have a specific question. What does the Remarks database show?
Type your question in plain English and get a structured answer with citations — actor counts, incident patterns, trend analysis — drawn directly from the Remarks database.
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How do I avoid checking manually every day?
Create a watchlist for the actors, countries, sectors, or topics you care about. My Desk surfaces new matching incidents automatically — and the Delta Briefing shows exactly what changed since your last session.
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I need to understand what changed and explain it quickly.
Use the Delta Briefing to see what changed since your last session, draw on Intelligence briefs for structured analytical context, and cite specific incident records for evidentiary grounding.
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Feature Guides
A complete reference guide for every major feature — what it is, why to use it, and how to use it effectively.
Your real-time dashboard of political violence across the Monitor's coverage area.
Use when: You want to know what is happening right now — overall incident volume, country pressure, sector trends, and emerging signals.
What it is
The Overview is the Monitor's home page. It shows a live picture of political violence activity across the covered geography, including total incident counts, country-level pressure scores, sector impact trends, and the most recently recorded incidents. It is designed to give you situational awareness in under two minutes.
Why you would use it
Start every session here to orient yourself before diving into specific incidents or analysis. The Overview tells you where to focus attention — which countries are experiencing elevated pressure, which sectors are under stress, and whether activity is escalating or stabilizing.
How to use it
Read the headline metrics
The top section shows total incidents over your selected timeframe, affected countries, involved actors, and aggregate severity. These numbers update with each sync cycle.
Check the pressure map
The map shows country-level activity density. Darker or more prominent countries indicate higher incident volumes and pressure scores. Click any country for a detailed country view.
Review recent incidents
The incident feed lists the most recently recorded incidents. Each card shows date, location, actor, tactic, and a brief description. Click any incident to open the full Incident Detail.
Check sector outlook
The sector panel shows which sectors are currently experiencing elevated impact. This is a summary view — use Sector Impact for full analysis.
Example
You arrive Monday morning and check the Overview. You see that incident volume in the West Bank has risen 18% week-over-week and that the Energy sector outlook has deteriorated. You click through to the relevant country view and then open recent incidents to understand what changed.
Things to know
Watch the walkthrough
Welcome to Remarks OPV · ~1 min
Remarks OPV is a connected system, not a simple database. Every piece of information links to others — an Incident connects to Actors, who connect to Signals, which inform Intelligence, which feeds Sector Impact.
Incident
Verified event record — what happened, where, who, and when
Actors
Perpetrators and targets with profiles and networks
Sources
Evidence base and verification status
Signals
Early warning patterns — forward-looking from incident data
Intelligence
Analyst assessment synthesizing incidents, actors, and signals
Sector Impact
How violence translates into sectoral pressure
Exposure Chain
How disruption propagates across connected sectors
My Desk / Monitoring
Personal workspace — watchlists, saved items, Delta Briefing
The system is networked, not linear — Signals inform Incidents, Actors appear across Signals and Intelligence, and Ask OPV AI queries across all layers simultaneously.
Evidence layer
Incidents + Sources
Everything starts with verified Incidents — structured records of events with documented sources. This is the factual foundation. Every analytical output in the Monitor links back to specific Incident records.
Actor layer
Profiles + Networks
Actors (groups, individuals, organizations) are extracted from incident records, cross-referenced, and profiled. Their network connections reveal organizational relationships and co-occurrence patterns that are invisible at the incident level.
Signal layer
Signals (Strategic + Intercepted)
Signals are the forward-looking layer. They are derived from patterns across incidents and actors, processed threat communications, and analyst assessment of emerging conditions. A Signal may appear days or weeks before related incidents.
Analysis layer
Intelligence + Ask OPV AI
Intelligence briefs synthesize all lower layers into structured analytical products. Ask OPV AI lets you query across the whole system in plain English — retrieving and synthesizing relevant records with citations.
Impact layer
Sector Impact + Exposure Chain
The impact layer translates incident patterns into sectoral and operational consequences — quantifying how violence affects energy, water, infrastructure, and other sectors, and how disruption propagates downstream.
Monitoring layer
My Desk + Watchlists
My Desk ties the system together for ongoing work. Watchlists monitor actor, country, and sector criteria automatically. The Delta Briefing shows what changed since your last session — across all layers.
Six short walkthroughs — from a 90-second overview to a complete workflow demonstration. Every video includes English captions and a full transcript.
A 90-second introduction to the Monitor: what it is, how it is organized, what you can do, and where to start.
All videos will include English captions and full text transcripts. No essential learning information exists only in video — every guide in the Feature Library covers the same content in text form.
Remarks OPV operates in layers. Understanding which layer you are working with matters — they represent different types of information with different confidence levels.
Layer 1
What sources report. This is the raw material: news reports, official statements, NGO documentation, and field reports. Remarks researchers locate, read, and assess these sources before any classification.
Layer 2
How Remarks classifies and verifies. Source material is transformed into structured Incident records using the Remarks taxonomy — standardized categories for tactic, actor type, location, consequence, and severity. Each record links to its source.
Layer 3
Interpretive and modelled outputs. Scores, signals, intelligence briefs, and sector impact calculations are analytical products — they involve judgment, modelling, and aggregation. They are derived from structured data but represent Remarks analyst interpretation.
Layer 4
AI-assisted interaction with Remarks data. Ask OPV AI retrieves and synthesizes structured Remarks records to answer specific questions. It does not generate information — it finds and organizes what is in the database. Citations link directly to the underlying records.
Definitions for every important term you will encounter in Remarks OPV.
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