Join Now: The Friends of CEOBS Community

Jul 2, 2020 | Conflict and Environment Observatory
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The purpose of the voluntary Friends of CEOBS community is to increase CEOBS' technical capacity, and to give individuals an opportunity to become more involved in its work. Because of the nature of our research, CEOBS often calls on the expertise of individuals working across a range of environmental, legal, health and humanitarian issues. The Friends community aims to provide individuals with a way of becoming more engaged in what CEOBS does. Of course, you might just want to follow and share its work, and so everyone on the mailing list automatically becomes a Friend.

But if you’d like to engage more deeply, CEOBS is looking for experts or specialists who it may occasionally approach to seek specific technical advice or support. CEOBS' work is pretty wide ranging but this could include:

Air quality specialists and modellers, agriculturalists, archaeologists, citizen science, contaminated land specialists, conservationists, data scientists, ecologists, environmental chemists, environmental scientists, environmental toxicologists, geologists, geographers, historians, humanitarian response practitioners, hydrogeologists, hydrologists, international relations scholars, investigative journalists, land rights experts, lawyers, OSINT researchers, political ecologists, political scientists, public health experts, software developers, visualisation specialists, waste specialists, socio-economic researchers…

This is a volunteer community, and Friends are under no obligation to provide any financial support by joining the network. CEOBS will not publicly disclose our list of Friends but, subject to their agreement, individuals contributing to our research will be acknowledged and fully cited in publications. 

So, as a member of the Friends of CEOBS community, you may just want to receive occasional mailings of blogs and reports, or to follow and engage with via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. But the community now also provides the space for experts from a range of disciplines to actively contribute to CEOBS' work to protect people and ecosystems from the environmental consequences of conflicts.

How to join

CEOBS has developed a community charter that sets out its commitment to providing a safe and supportive environment for all Friends of CEOBS. To join the community, please use the form below to confirm that you have read and agree with the charter, and then share some details on your background, and give an idea of how you might like to be involved.

CEOBS:

  • Values and supports diversity, and contributions from all community members.
  • Acknowledges that any technical advice or guidance freely provided is given in good faith.
  • Will not use any contributions received for commercial purposes and will make all of its publications freely available online – unless security considerations prevent this.
  • Will protect any of your personal data held as part of the community in accordance with the requirements of the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018.

As a community member you agree that:

  • You understand the purpose of the community and its limitations.
  • Your personal views will not necessarily be treated as the formal position of CEOBS.
  • CEOBS reserves the right to validate the accuracy of technical contributions.
  • CEOBS can retain personal data relevant to your membership of the community.