Overview
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.
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.
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.
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Check today's situation: how many incidents are recorded in the current timeframe? Which country shows the highest pressure?
Remarks OPV is built around real analytical goals. Choose what matters to you and learn how the Monitor helps you do it.
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.
Search, filter, and browse the full verified incident database.
Use when: You need to find incidents by date range, country, actor, tactic, sector, or keyword — and want to browse or export results.
The complete structured record for a single incident — what happened, who was involved, where, and what it means.
Use when: You have found an incident you want to understand deeply, verify, or use as a starting point for broader analysis.
Structured country and sector analysis from Remarks analysts — beyond the raw data.
Use when: You want to understand what the data means, not just what happened — structured analysis linking incidents, actors, signals, and sector impact.
Forward-looking intelligence — emerging threats, escalation indicators, and strategic patterns before they become incidents.
Use when: You want to look ahead — identify early warning indicators, escalation signals, and strategic threats that are not yet reflected in incident counts.
Structured profiles of significant actors — groups, individuals, and organizations — involved in political violence.
Use when: You want to understand who an actor is, what they have done, who they are connected to, and how they fit into the broader conflict landscape.
Visual maps of actor relationships, affiliations, and connections.
Use when: You are analyzing an actor or conflict environment and want to understand the organizational and relational landscape.
Ask structured questions and get answers grounded in the Remarks database — with citations.
Use when: You have a specific question that would take too long to answer manually — incident counts, actor histories, trend patterns, sector comparisons — and you want a direct, cited answer.
How political violence affects critical sectors — energy, water, infrastructure, and more.
Use when: You need to understand the sectoral consequences of political violence — for risk assessment, supply chain analysis, infrastructure planning, or investor briefings.
How violence affecting one sector propagates into connected sectors and supply chains.
Use when: You need to assess cascading risk — how disruption in energy affects water, how disruption in infrastructure affects agriculture, and how these propagate through supply chains.
Your personal research workspace — saved incidents, watchlists, monitoring lists, and the Delta Briefing.
Use when: You have identified incidents, actors, countries, or topics you want to track over time, or when you need to review changes since your last session.
Published alerts from Remarks analysts on significant developments requiring immediate attention.
Use when: You want to receive proactive notification about high-significance events or rapid escalation that warrants immediate attention.
Where the data comes from, how it is verified, what the scores mean, and how to interpret confidence and uncertainty.
Use when: You need to explain the data to a client, verify your analytical claims, or understand the limits of what the Monitor shows.
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.
A complete workflow walkthrough: search, filter, open an incident, read the evidence, follow actors, and connect to related intelligence.
How to ask good questions, interpret the answers, verify citations, and understand the limitations of AI-assisted querying.
A realistic analysis workflow: reading sector impact scores, understanding what drives them, and using Exposure Chain to see downstream effects.
How to save incidents, create watchlists, read the Delta Briefing, and build a monitoring workflow that works without daily manual checking.
A clear scenario walkthrough: how violence affecting one sector propagates into connected sectors, and how to use this for risk assessment.
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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