Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

Future Development

Will rising insecurity erase West Africa’s economic development gains?

Mounir Siaplay and Eric Werker

Friday, February 3, 2023

Middle East & North Africa

Ethiopia’s hard road to peace: The country’s problems go far beyond Tigray

Jeffrey Feltman

Monday, December 26, 2022

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Africa in Focus

Tackling fragility and promoting integration in the Horn of Africa through ‘development diplomacy’

Vijay Pillai and Miguel de Corral

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Libya

Two years on from the ceasefire agreement, Libya still matters

Stephanie T. Williams

November 2022

Reports

Shadows are cast over tomatoes for sale in the central market in Diabaly January 23, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney

Report

Institutions, informality, and conflict in the Sahel: The case for Mali

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye and Nancy Benjamin

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

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Report

Climate change, development, and conflict-fragility nexus in the Sahel

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye and Landry Signé

Friday, March 11, 2022

Second team of the ninth batch of Chinese Peacekeeping force in the Republic of South Sudan finish their mission and arrive at an airport in Zhengzhou city, central China's Henan province, 29 September 2019. fachaoshiNo Use China. No Use France.

Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

The new geopolitics of fragility: Russia, China, and the mounting challenge for peacebuilding

Bruce Jones and Alexandre Marc

October 2021

Nigeria

Vigilante groups and militias in southern Nigeria

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, September 3, 2021

Colombia's FARC lead negotiator Ivan Marquez (L) and Colombia's lead government negotiator Humberto de la Calle (R) shake hands while Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez looks on, after signing a final peace deal in Havana, Cuba, August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Crime & Criminal Justice

Negotiating with violent criminal groups: Lessons and guidelines from global practice

Mark Freeman and Vanda Felbab-Brown

April 2021

Blog Posts

A burning bus, set alight by cartel gunmen to block a road, is pictured during clashes with federal forces following the detention of Ovidio Guzman, son of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer

Order from Chaos

The successes and problems of high-value targeting strategies around the world

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Girls in Afghanistan walk to school in a remote village.

Education Plus Development

Transforming education in a time of uncertainty: Insights on Afghanistan

Ghulam Omar Qargha, Rangina Hamidi, and Iveta Silova

Friday, September 16, 2022

Ukrainian servicemen patrol an area, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Izium, recently liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine September 14, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Up Front

We must reinforce Putin’s military losses with economic ones

Norman Eisen, Lilly Blumenthal, and Robin J. Lewis

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

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Events

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Assessing UN state-building in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and beyond

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The future of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Multimedia

Somalia

The long war in Somalia

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Nigeria

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Peacekeeping & Conflict Management

Will rising insecurity erase West Africa’s economic development gains?

Ethiopia’s hard road to peace: The country’s problems go far beyond Tigray

Tackling fragility and promoting integration in the Horn of Africa through ‘development diplomacy’

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Reports

Institutions, informality, and conflict in the Sahel: The case for Mali

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The new geopolitics of fragility: Russia, China, and the mounting challenge for peacebuilding

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Negotiating with violent criminal groups: Lessons and guidelines from global practice

Blog Posts

The successes and problems of high-value targeting strategies around the world

Transforming education in a time of uncertainty: Insights on Afghanistan

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Events

Assessing UN state-building in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and beyond

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The future of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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The Irony of Vietnam

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