U-M launches interactive website documenting war crimes in Ukraine

Site features interactive maps, testimonies collected by The Reckoning Project. The University of Michigan's Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia has created a new that serves as a digital archive of testimonies from witnesses and victims of documented human rights violations, war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion on Feb. Testimonies were collected by journalists and researchers working with The Reckoning Project , an international NGO that trains journalists and researchers to record, collect and conserve witness statements in a way to preserve their integrity for use in a court of law. The project's principal investigator, Geneviève Zubrzycki , director of the Weiser Center, and a team of research assistants, translators and editors prepared the data for analytical, legal, archival and commemorative purposes. The website features two interactive maps, each allowing the user to visualize patterns of mass violence in unique ways. The Incident Map shows the location of violent acts against civilians. Users can zoom in and out to explore incidents in a specific region and then view details by clicking on the red dot.