Track A · Infrastructure
Attacks on buildings, laboratories, libraries, residences and campus facilities. Each entry records the type of facility, the extent of damage, the applicable IHL provision, and attribution where established.
Methodology & IHL
How a record is made, and what it must survive.
The dual-track documentation standard and the review every record passes before it is published.
Two tracks · one standard
How we document.
All GACF records are documented using an IHL-based methodology developed by Professor Gorji and colleagues at the University of Münster.
Track B · Individual
Memorial profiles of scholars killed in conflict — biographical narrative, positive civilian-status determination, and a verified chain of evidence. A living person is never published: documenting someone and publishing them are different acts.
The pipeline
What a record passes through
Submission
A verified member institution submits a record through the AGORA pipeline. A submission carries a factual description, the date and location, the affected institution, and at least one piece of primary evidence.
IHL classification
The submitting institution proposes the applicable provision of the Geneva Conventions, the Additional Protocols, or ICRC Customary IHL. The secretariat reviews and confirms it before the record proceeds.
Verification
For Track B profiles, civilian status must be established through independent sources. For Track A incidents, damage and attribution are cross-referenced against imagery, field reports and independent media. Verification is only legal from review — a record cannot skip it.
Publication & escalation
A verified record may be published to the public registry and, where the pattern warrants, escalated to the network. An escalation may prompt a joint statement, bound by the same evidence chain as the record that prompted it.
The Civilians of Iran standard
Track B profiles follow the Civilians of Iran documentation method, developed for recording deaths under conditions of political violence. Every profile carries a full biographical narrative, not merely a factual record, because documentation that treats a person as a number fails the person.
Provisions invoked
IHL classification guide
API §52 · Protection of civilian objects from attack
API §51(2) · Prohibition of attacks on the civilian population
API §53 · Protection of cultural objects and places of worship
GCIV §50 · Protection of children and education in occupied territory
CIHL R.1 · Distinction between civilians and combatants
CIHL R.38 · Attacks against cultural property prohibited
The panes marked Plannedin the rail — the Board of Trustees, the funding breakdown, annual reports, how to give, and work-with-us — are not published here. Each states facts about real people, real funders or real money that this build cannot verify, and the content ledger’s rule is that an unverified claim is absent rather than approximated. They appear when the secretariat supplies the copy. See the member directory for what the record does hold.