After the momentous events of 2011, Yemen sadly has become a kind of backwater of the Arab Spring in the international media. What rare news headlines surface usually include the word “drone,”...
Afghanistan post-2014:Groping in the dark? In this Clingendael Report author Jaïr van der Lijn presents six scenarios for Afghanistan’s uncertain future after 2014, when ISAF will have left and the...
The UN Mission in South Sudan's new civilian protection strategy perpetuates expectations it will never be able to meet. However, notwithstanding existing challenges, improvements to the mission's...
This CRU Report presents some of the main challenges for adequate engagement with non-state actors in fragile and conflict-affected situations, and concludes that its success will rest or fall on...
Ivan Briscoe, Floor Janssen and Rosan Smits Executive summary The end-point of Syria’s escalating conflict is impossible to foretell, but this does not mean that the international community cannot...
Under the influence of the Arab Spring, Yemen last year embarked on a political transition after decades of autocratic rule under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The extreme fragility of the Yemeni...
Monday July 9th 2012 marked South Sudan’s first anniversary as an independent state. But one year down the road, what is there to celebrate for this newborn polity? Faced with political stability and...
Blanca Antonini , 5 September 2012 The earthquake of 2010 brutally exposed the vulnerabilities of Haiti’s people, as well as confronting an already weakly governed country with massive humanitarian...
George Joffé , 5 September 2012 Less than a year after Libya’s autocratic regime was toppled, many observers, particularly in Europe, still express pessimism over the country’s chances of charting a...
The debate surrounding early warning (EW) and early response (ER) on conflict prevention is understood differently by different people, at different points in time. However, at its core, EW-ER is a...