{
  "bodies": [
    {
      "name": "Scientific and Methodological Council",
      "role": "Maintains methods, indicators, scoring discipline and source separation."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ethics and Source Protection Committee",
      "role": "Protects witnesses, contributors and communities from unnecessary exposure."
    },
    {
      "name": "Legal and Right-of-Reply Committee",
      "role": "Manages legal framing, correction requests, reply windows and publication discipline."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cybersecurity and Evidence Integrity Unit",
      "role": "Protects digital evidence, audit trails, access control and publication hashes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Regional Analyst Network",
      "role": "Coordinates country, regional and diaspora analysts with compartmented access."
    },
    {
      "name": "Public Communications Office",
      "role": "Publishes sanitized dashboards, briefings and public education material."
    },
    {
      "name": "Emergency Protection Desk",
      "role": "Handles urgent protection signals and high-risk suppression or retaliation cases."
    }
  ],
  "council": {
    "name_en": "Pan-African Council for Sovereignty, Protection and Public Intelligence",
    "name_fr": "Conseil Panafricain de Souveraineté, de Protection et d’Intelligence Publique",
    "role": "Methodological, ethical, legal and protective governance layer for public intelligence work."
  },
  "membership_doctrine": {
    "categories": [
      "vetted researchers",
      "policymakers",
      "intelligence-community professionals",
      "traditional authorities and kings",
      "jurists",
      "cybersecurity specialists",
      "auditors",
      "journalists",
      "public-health experts",
      "land/resource specialists",
      "regional analysts across Africa and the diaspora"
    ],
    "principle": "Public legitimacy does not require exposing protected contributors.",
    "visibility_levels": [
      "public",
      "members-only",
      "confidential",
      "compartmented"
    ]
  },
  "observatory": {
    "mission_fr": "Documenter. Vérifier. Traduire. Évaluer. Protéger.",
    "mission_short": "Document. Verify. Translate. Assess. Protect.",
    "name_en": "Pan-African Sovereignty Observatory",
    "name_fr": "Observatoire Panafricain de la Souveraineté",
    "purpose": "A public-interest observatory for evidence-gated sovereignty, population protection, resource integrity, institutional risk and sovereign knowledge infrastructure across Africa and the diaspora."
  },
  "paso_decentralized_hub": {
    "decentralized_model": "PASO does not require public exposure of contributors. Community intelligence, expert review and public-source work are decentralized, anonymized where needed, and verified through evidence chains rather than status, celebrity or pressure.",
    "humanity_clause": "PASO aims to help build a better humanity by increasing transparency, protecting populations and exposing patterns that undermine trust, endanger Africans, or weaken the ability of African peoples to shape their own future.",
    "political_assessment_rule": "Assessments of political figures, regimes, institutions and influence networks are community-driven, source-linked, reviewed and correction-capable. The goal is not entertainment, humiliation, factional propaganda or shielding harmful behavior. The goal is to make public risk intelligible, verifiable and correctable.",
    "public_disclaimer": "Public profiles are not declarations of legal guilt, secret affiliation, protected-source status, membership or endorsement. They are evidence-gated assessments of public output, public action, institutional role, source record and measurable impact. Corrections and counter-evidence can change records through review.",
    "schema": "paso-public-introduction-v1",
    "standards_use": "PASO uses standards, frameworks and public works based on their potential impact for African liberation, protection and progress. Where a framework, author, institution, archive, dataset, standard or method is used, the platform should give due credit and preserve source context.",
    "summary": "The Pan-African Sovereignty Observatory (PASO) is a decentralized public-interest hub spanning five continents. It is inspired by African values, especially Nsiku, Nzola and Bisalu: principled limits and accountability, protection of life and dignity, and concrete useful work that builds capacity.",
    "title": "PASO as a decentralized Pan-African protection and intelligence hub",
    "values": {
      "Bisalu": "Tangible outputs: institutions, publications, tools, jobs, infrastructure, laws, companies, public systems and local capabilities.",
      "Nsiku": "Rule, measure, limit, accountability, anti-capture boundaries and disciplined public method.",
      "Nzola": "Protection of people, dignity, health, education, social repair and refusal to fracture African communities for external advantage."
    }
  },
  "public_trust_model": {
    "core_statement": "Trust comes from transparent methods, high-quality sources, correction discipline, right of reply, auditability and public-interest purpose, not from exposing protected contributors.",
    "retaliation_rule": "Where retaliation risk exists, the platform must publish only what is necessary for public understanding and protection while keeping contributor identity, raw evidence chains and sensitive locations shielded.",
    "source_rule": "Authors, institutions and public works cited by the Observatory are not automatically members, partners, sources, witnesses or endorsers. Their published work may provide theoretical, empirical, legal, historical or methodological grounding."
  },
  "publication_discipline": {
    "protected_sources": "Raw evidence, witness identity, exact sensitive locations and protected contributor details are not exposed in the public layer.",
    "red_rule": "Red does not mean final legal guilt. Red means insufficient demonstrated compliance, transparency, responsibility, or public-interest assurance.",
    "right_of_reply": "Right of reply, correction and documented update remain part of the publication discipline.",
    "schema": "cssp-public-disclaimer-v1",
    "separation_rule": "Accusations must be separated from evidence, analysis, recommendation, and confirmed finding."
  },
  "schema": "cssp-observatory-governance-v1"
}