Chapters
Each chapter will explore a live question in investigative practice: how evidence is found, tested and used; what different actors learn from the process; and why some findings lead to accountability and remedy while others do not. Through interviews, case studies and practical reflections, we will look at the conditions that make credible investigation possible, and at what happens after the evidence is gathered.
Chapter 1:
Oil, evidence and accountability in the Niger Delta
Chapter 2:
Investigating in the age of artificial intelligence
Chapter 3:
Sexual violence, conflict and extractive wealth in the DRC
Coming soon…
A chapter on what decades of investigation have revealed about sexual violence, armed conflict and control of mineral resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Questions explored: How have investigators documented these patterns over time? When does an investigation move beyond recording harm to tracing the decisions, networks and interests that allow it to continue? What has happened to the evidence already gathered, and why has so little of it led to accountability and remedy?
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A chapter on how AI and digital tools are changing the way evidence is found, analysed and verified, and what new risks they create.
Questions explored: What can AI genuinely strengthen? What do the legal experts say? Where can it distort or obscure? How do investigators protect privacy, judgement and independence? What happens when tools move faster than standards? What are some examples of AI use for human rights investigations that led to accountability?
A chapter exploring what decades of investigation have revealed about environmental damage, human rights harm, corporate decision-making, and accountability in the Niger Delta. What happens when evidence suggests that harm was knowingly allowed to continue?
Questions explored: What did investigators uncover over decades of work? How did evidence move from documenting harm to tracing corporate decisions? Who knew what, when, and what choices were made? Why did some findings lead to action while others did not? What would accountability and remedy look like?
"The truth is not only a right, but a weapon against oppression." — Nadia Murad (Yazidi human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate)