Chatham House Updates

We live in a complex and interconnected world, where humanitarian crises mirror this complexity. Anticipatory action (AA), or acting ahead of predicted hazards to reduce or prevent acute humanitarian...

Authors Sarah Cliffe. Executive Director Renata Dwan, Senior Consulting Fellow, Chatham House; Senior Fellow, NYU CIC Betty Wainaina, Associate Director, UN/IFIs Leah Zamore. Associate Director,...

Summary Biodiversity loss is accelerating around the world. The global rate of species extinction today is orders of magnitude higher than the average rate over the past 10 million years. The global...

Sudan is looking towards a brighter future after the initialling of the Juba peace agreement on August 31, an important first step towards bringing peace to the conflict zones and laying the...

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard Associate Fellow, International Law Programme Summary • The 70th anniversary of the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions was commemorated in 2019. But violations of the...

This report examines the common economic factors that continue to drive conflict in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. It also makes specific recommendations to Western policymakers addressing these types...

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House 27 June 2019 Summary • Although sieges may conjure up images of medieval warfare, they are still used by armed...

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House 10 December 2018 Summary Military operations are taking place with increasing frequency in densely populated...

This paper highlights a number of options for managing electricity infrastructure in refugee camps. It outlines the challenges, opportunities and operational implications associated with them using...

This report, issued by the Moving Energy Initiative (ME) provides information on aid agencies and the risk of undermining market systems if they do not consider established markets in their planning...

This paper explores the increase in resources and funding needed to improve the access of displaced people to modern and sustainable energy services. #EECentreResources #Energy

The global case load for humanitarian agencies has continued to rise throughout the last decade, but no major agency has a comprehensive strategy for addressing its energy use.

This toolkit published by the Moving Energy Initiative is a practical guide for humanitarian agencies that want to make energy cost savings and reduce their carbon and emissions footprint. It is part...

Executive Summary The low level of energy access in refugee camps is sorely felt by displaced people. Expensive and dirty technologies contribute to poverty, and hamper relief and development...

This paper sets out a series of steps for systematically gathering information on the adverse impact of sanctions on humanitarian action and bringing it to the attention of Security Council members...

Executive Summary Global food security is underpinned by trade in a few crops and fertilizers. Just three crops – maize, wheat and rice – account for around 60 per cent of global food energy intake...

By Tom Keatinge, Director, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI); and Florence Keen, Research Analyst, Centre for Financial Crime and Security...

Summary • The politicization of humanitarian funding in response to the Syrian conflict has had a negative impact on coordination between the major international humanitarian actors. For their part,...

Summary • The 2014–16 West African Ebola epidemic was unprecedented in both scale and duration. By March 2016, when the World Health Organization (WHO) announced an end to the Public Health Emergency...

Kate Jones Summary • In delivering assistance to civilians in areas controlled by non-state armed groups (NSAGs), humanitarian actors sometimes have no choice but to make payments or provide...