Breakfast seminar: Legitimacy’s labour lost: The social and psychological work of compliance and consent in wartime Russia
How has Russian public support for the war in Ukraine remained so resilient – and what dynamics are keeping it in place?
European nuclear deterrence: The french initiative
Join us for a conversation on European security in a time marked by war, nuclear threats, and growing strategic uncertainty. Against the backdrop...
Navigating a Multiplex World Order
Is the liberal international order coming to an end, and what follows the era of American hegemony? In this episode of The World Stage, Senior Res...
Navigating a Multiplex World Order
Is the liberal international order coming to an end, and what follows the era of American hegemony? In this episode of The World Stage, Senior Res...
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Afghanistan*
Afghanistan faces severe climate vulnerability while being more exposed to extreme weather events and natural hazards (including droughts and floods) than the global average. This has been compounded by environmental degradation caused by prolonged conflict, poor natural resource management and limited resilient infrastructure. Together with complex humanitarian and economic crises and mass returns of Afghans from Iran and Pakistan, all these factors deepen the population’s vulnerability to overlapping crises. * This is an updated version of the fact sheets on Afghanistan published in February 2022 and February 2023.
Responding to climate change-related insecurity in the Lake Chad region
In this report, the authors aim to contribute to generating evidence-based knowledge on the most effective strategies for preventing and managing climate-related conflict and instability. The focus in this report is on the Lake Chad region and its Regional Strategy for Stabilisation, Recovery and Resilience of the Boko Haram-affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin Region (RS-SRR). An updated version was uploaded on 12 May 2026. The authors have identified three implementation gaps, and present eight recommendations to address them.