About us.
Conflict Insights Group was founded by Justin Lynch in 2024 to deliver premium research that combines advanced quantitative analysis with deep local expertise — without the overhead and inefficiencies of traditional organizations.
Decisions need trusted data, not theories or rumors.
Governments and business leaders don't rely on academic theories or rumors to make decisions — they need trusted data. We answer complex questions by fusing multiple data streams, then ground-truth every finding through our network of local experts and political contacts.
By eliminating bureaucratic overhead and leveraging technology, we deliver rigorous analysis faster and more cost-effectively than legacy firms — within days or weeks, not months — while maintaining the evidentiary standards required for media attribution, legal accountability and policy impact.
Our research has been cited by The Washington Post, CNN, The Economist, BBC, Reuters, the Financial Times and other leading outlets, and presented to the U.S. Congress.
What we fuse
- Geospatial intelligence
- Commercial datasets
- Open-source research
- Movement data
- Trade analysis
- CIG's proprietary records
Every finding is ground-truthed through local experts and political contacts before it reaches a client.
Track record.
We have worked with governments, international organizations and NGOs to monitor weapons proliferation, illicit financial flows, military buildups, human rights violations, logistics networks and critical-minerals holdings.
We have also worked with private sector clients on asset recovery investigations, due diligence research and political risk analysis.
Export records and a network diagram from the Blood Money report.
Founder.
Justin Lynch
Managing Director
Justin founded Conflict Insights Group in 2024 after more than a decade reporting on and investigating Sudan, South Sudan and the Horn of Africa. He is co-author of Sudan's Unfinished Democracy (Oxford University Press) and has written for the Associated Press, The Economist and Foreign Policy, including reporting from Sudan and South Sudan that led to his expulsion from Juba in 2016.
He has briefed governments, international organizations and newsrooms on conflict finance and foreign support to Sudan's war, and testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives in October 2026.
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