Fragile States
Although the phenomenon of state failure is not new, it has become much more relevant and worrying than ever before. In less interconnected eras, state weakness could be isolated and kept distant. Failure had fewer implications for peace and security. Now, within a more interconnected global community these fragile states pose dangers not only to themselves and their neighbors but also to peoples around the globe. Preventing states from failing, and resuscitating those that do fail, are thus strategic and global imperatives. CIC has provided research in this arena, developed panel dicussions that have explored critical issues confronting failed states. CIC has also drawn on expertise from the practitioner, NGO, academic and UN communities, provided candid recommendations and potential solutions to the global threat that failed states present.
Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Congo Research Group, Prevention and Peacebuilding
Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Horn of Africa, Libya, Syria, South Asia, India, West Africa
The Triple Nexus in Practice: Toward a New Way of Working in Protracted and Repeated Crises
In 2016, global policymakers came together to confront a critical policy dilemma: what is, or should be, the role of humanitarian action in a world beset by "permanent emergencies" that do not end, in which the root causes are overwhelmingly structural and political? One major outcome of the summit was the commitment to a "new way of working" based on linking the "triple nexus" of humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding (HDP) efforts. CIC's new report, The Triple Nexus in Practice: Toward a New Way of Working in Protracted and Repeated Crises, shares the results of a major independent review of the implementation of this process.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Leah Zamore
Topic(s): 2030 Agenda, Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises
Program(s): Humanitarian Crises
The U.S. Presence and Afghanistan's National Unity Government: Preserving and Broadening the Political Settlement
President Obama has announced that the U.S, will maintain 8,400 troops in Afghanistan until the end of his term. The international military presence does not only affect the balance of forces between the government and the Taliban insurgency based in Pakistan.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin, Georgette Gagnon
Region/Country: Middle East, Afghanistan
Topic(s): Fragile States, South Asia
Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project
After the World Humanitarian Summit: Better Humanitarian-Development Cooperation for Sustainable Results on the Ground
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) called for a step change in how humanitarian action is conceived, planned, implemented and monitored – and by whom.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe, Gizem Sucuoglu , Jeffrey Strew
Topic(s): Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises, Peace Operations
Project Brief | A Window of Opportunity for Somalia: Will External Actors' Peacebuilding Frameworks Help or Hinder the Effort?
Peacekeeping in Africa : The evolving security architecture
Three Questions for the Next Generation of Peacebuilders
Suspending Money Transfers to Somalia Hurts the Poor, Not Terrorists