Background ■ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrvuZpk65Rw ■ In May 1966 the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (“the FARC”) was established. ■ In August 2016, following four years of negotiations...
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A Conflict Overlooked: Yemen in Crisis
Conflict Background Yemen has a weak, highly decentralized central government that has struggled to rule the northern Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and the southern People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen...
2018 Conflict Risk Assessment Report Palestinian Territories: West Bank and Gaza Strip
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territories has largely been characterized by its protracted history of armed conflict, fragile governance and high levels of political...
South Sudan: Conflict Risk Assessment Report 2018
Executive Summary This diagnostic report examines trends in structural factors in South Sudan since 2m013 based on risk assessment indicators, global trends, and key stakeholder interactions. Based...
DR Congo + 2 more
2018 Conflict Risk Diagnostic: Democratic Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Background In 1960, the DRC gained independence from King Leopold II and Belgium after nationalist uprisings in now called Kinshasa. The newly independent Congo...
Central African Republic Conflict Assessment Report, February 2017
Executive Summary In 2013, the Central African Republic (CAR), a mineral-rich country, has descended into a violent inter-ethnic conflict between the majority Christian population and the Muslim...
Republic of Cyprus: Risk Assessment Report (4 February 2016)
Executive Summary The Northern third of the island is the primarily Turkish Cypriot & Turkish settler “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.” Although arguably de facto sovereign, TRNC is recognized...
Burundi Conflict Risk Assessment, February 2016
Background Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1962, Burundi has been racked by successive waves of political violence. In the past fifty years, Burundi has suffered three civil conflicts,...
Myanmar Conflict Risk Assessment Report 2016
BACKGROUND Myanmar gained independence from Britain in 1948 and functioned as a representative democracy until a military coup in 1962. Myanmar became a military dictatorship, with the power of the...
Indonesia + 1 more
Papua New Guinea risk assessment brief
1. OVERVIEW Papua New Guinea's population of 5.6 million is one of the most heterogeneous in the world, with more than 700 indigenous languages spoken by several thousand communities divided by...
Afghanistan: A risk assessment brief
Background Afghanistan has had a turbulent history of conflict for over three decades. After the collapse of the constitutional monarchy led by King Zahir Shah in 1973 and the establishment of a...
Indonesia + 1 more
Conflict Risk Assessment Report: Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines
OVERVIEW This report provides an indicators-based assessment of conflict risk in the three Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The analysis crosses nine interrelated...
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy: Early Warning Methods
This report presents a framework to direct the future efforts of researchers working on the CIFP project to tailor it to the needs of foreign policy analysts and the early warning research community...