All content about Peace, crisis and conflict

• No clear exit for SAMIM in Mozambique

  Publication | 2022

  The SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) has been extended multiple times, and violence continues to affect the northern regions of the country in spit1

  

• Should UN peacekeepers remain in Africa?

  Publication | 2022

  • Cedric H. de Coning

  Africa has had more UN peacekeeping missions than any other region in the world. Today more than fifty thousand troops are deployed with UN operatio1

  

• Adapting the African Standby Force to Africa’s Evolving Security Landscape

  Publication | 2023

  • Andrew E. Yaw Tchie
  • Cedric H. de Coning

  Over the last decade Africa has experienced a resurgence of what used to be called rebels. In response a number of new types of operations have evolv1

  

• Adaptive Peacebuilding: A New Approach to Sustaining Peace in the 21st Century

  Publication : Academic anthology | 2023

  • Cedric H. de Coning
  • Rui Saraiva
  • Ako Muto

  This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through eviden1

  

• Understanding the roots of Kurdish resilience to violent extremism in Iraq

  27 Apr 2023

  • Marie Furhovden

  What are the reasons behind the limited impact of violent extremism and the Islamic State in the Kurdistan region of Iraq?

  The Middle East and North Africa  Peace, crisis and conflict  Terrorism and extremism

  

• Ad-hoc Security Initiatives, an African response to insecurity

  Publication | 2022

  • Cedric H. de Coning
  • Andrew E. Yaw Tchie
  • Anab Ovidie Grand

  This article contends that Ad-hoc Security Initiatives (ASI) have developed over the last decade in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin and represents a ne1

  

• COMMENTARY: Investing in People and Enhancing Resilience for Sustaining Peace with Adaptive Peacebuilding

  19 Jan 2023

  • Cedric H. de Coning
  • Rui Saraiva
  • Ako Muto

  The most effective context-specific peacebuilding approaches are those rooted in the history, culture, and current reality of the people affected by1

  United Nations  Fragile states  Peace, crisis and conflict

  

• Rethinking radicalisation and resilience in Mali and the Sahel

  11 Jan 2023

  • Marie Furhovden

  What does resilience against radicalisation and violent extremism look like in Mali and the Sahel? And which drivers are present for the spread of ex1

  Africa  Peace, crisis and conflict  Terrorism and extremism

  

• The Strategic Direction of the United States in an Era of Competition

  Publication | 2022

  • Eskil Jakobsen
  • Espen Mathy

  Since President Joe Biden’s entry in the Oval Office in January 2021, his Administration has issued several national strategies. These documents are1

  

• Trade, Trust, and De Facto State Conflicts: Abkhazia’s International Economic Engagement

  Publication : Popular scientific article | 2021

  • Tamta Gelashvili
  • Helge Blakkisrud
  • Pål Kolstø
  • Pål Kolstø

  Does trade really foster trust? In the case of conflict-torn regions, developing trade links is often believed to contribute to transforming conflict1