Team B:
Disrupt the Chain
End Barrel Bombs
in Syria
Support Res. 2139
Identify
Uncover
Disrupt the supply chain
Air-Launched
Explosive Weapons 2013
Jan
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Number of Barrel Bomb Attacks 2013-2015
Pre-2139
Post-2139
“The most socially
mediated conflict in
history”
Over 1 million videos
shared since Jan 2012
Several hundred million
views
Finance
Manu.
Distr.
Prep.
Deploy
disrupt the chain
Disrupt the Chain site
Online Crowd-sourced Identification Tool
Intake through
Eyewitness App
and pre-verified
content
Video/ Photo and documentation from
Syria media aggregators
•  Service
contracts
•  Goods
purchased for
explosives
•  Fuel for
helicopters
•  Identify the
money trail
•  Pension funds
•  Pilot and crew
•  Helicopter
•  Air base
•  Impact photos
•  Eyewitness
statements
•  Victim identification
Low Probability
High Probability
High Risk
Risk Assessment
•  Direct Data Collection Personal risk and privacy
concerns
•  Authenticity/false allegations
•  Ethical impact of naming/
shaming on individuals and
families in war zone
•  Cyber attacks
•  Lawsuits/defamation
•  Individuals harmed by release
of information
Low Risk
•  Uncertainty/unpredictability of
existing data
•  Misinformation propagation by
various interests
•  Minimal impact on core regime
and supporting countries
Finance
Manu.
Distr.
Prep.
Deploy
Parts
Materials
Services
Methodology
1- First stage: Aggregating verified information from CRS-SY, SNHR, ST, SS, VDC
associated with of barrel bombs
2- Second stage: Crowdsourcing information to obtain a full picture of the supply chain
from production, transportation, and deployment of both barrel bombs and the capabilities
utilized in support of barrel bombing operations.
3-Third stage: Retrieving information from the crowd and verification from multiple
witnesses
4- Fourth stage: Producing a narrative of the supply chain produced from the verified
information gathered in the previous stages
5 – Fifth stage: “accountability” – make the narrative available to global activist that wil
employ it to hold accountable key actors behind the supply chain
Evidence base on Previous
Cases
Name and shame of companies:
• 
Free2Protect: Evaluates electronic brands’ supply chain to
create a grade for those companies involvement in child and
forced labor and posts the information online.
•  Shamed on Twitter: General Mills, Sallie Mae, Macy’s –
changed policies based on twitter attacks
Successfully keeping companies accountable for their
supply chain
•  Gap held accountable for Rana Plaza building in
Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 garment workers.
Resulted in an alliance among 70 companies
Evidence base on Previous
Cases
Successful crowdsourced information sites
•  Brown Moses, Bellingcat.com
•  Reddit
•  Governments: now using Facebook, Twitter and
overseas regional networks to find key intelligence
data
Example:
•  Malaysia Airlines Flight killed 298 people. Within
minutes who shot it, what shot it, and when and where
it was shot was on social media.