By Angshuman Choudhury, Siddharth Anil Nair, Ashutosh Nagda & Garima Maheshwari Report summary The BoB region is one of the most climate-vulnerable in the world. Its strategic, political, social and...
Bangladesh + 4 more
Bangladesh + 4 more
By Angshuman Choudhury, Siddharth Anil Nair, Ashutosh Nagda & Garima Maheshwari Report summary The BoB region is one of the most climate-vulnerable in the world. Its strategic, political, social and...
World + 1 more
Authors: Felix Colchester (CR), Laura Henao Izquierdo (CINEP) and Philipp Lustenberger (swisspeace) “The quality of a peace agreement is only equal to the quality of its implementation. While the...
Niger + 4 more
Executive summary In recent years, the Sahel region has attracted the attention of European policy makers aiming to prevent Europe-bound irregular migrants from reaching the Libyan coastline...
Niger + 11 more
Fransje Molenaar Nancy Ezzedinne Executive summary In the first half of 2018, Niger was subject to the unexpected arrival of a group of 2,000 asylum seekers. The absence of appropriate reception...
Abstract In the Mopti region of Mali, the livelihoods of most people depend on agriculture and pastoralism. Here, a variety of socio-professional groups – such as herders, farmers and fishers –...
Syria + 3 more
Minke Meijnders Jaïr van der Lijn Bas van Mierlo Clingendael Report November 2017 Executive Summary The main aim of this report is to identify policy options for the future of Syria, using four...
Executive Summary This study finds that progress on a number of important issues discussed in the HIPPO report varies across different areas: Working methods of the Security Council: Here progress is...
World + 12 more
By Jaïr van der Lijn 1 The context Since the start of the migration crisis in 2015, the European Union (EU) has focused its political and financial attention on restricting irregular migration flows...
Mali + 1 more
The full-blown crisis that hit Mali in 2012 illustrated the failure of local mechanisms and international programmes that were supposed to tackle the security and development problems in the north of...
Policy Brief Summary The crisis in South Sudan calls for a critical reflection on past and forthcoming aid practices in the country, and on the assumptions and ambitions that underpin them. On the...
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...
Syria + 2 more
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...
South Sudan + 1 more
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...
BACKGROUND 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,...