The Broker aims to identify, integrate and analyze the different perspectives to advance insights into the constantly changing dynamics. We do this by using updated information from experts and on the ground knowledge. We call our method a ‘living analysis’.
Time to take the challenge of rapid urbanization in fragile contexts seriously
John de Boer | 05 November 2024The emergence of fragile cities poses a growing security challenge and it is time to develop innovative solutions that are embedded in informal networks.
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Tuareg trans-border business: Afrod will never end, afrod is our work!
Ines Kohl | 16 October 2024Since the outbreak of the Libyan war, migration transport has changed. But although conditions for Tuareg trans-border business became more difficult, it will continue on as before.
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Niger’s booming migrant smuggling economy emboldens trafficking groups in the Sahel
Tuesday Reitano | 16 October 2024The extraordinary opportunity to permeate ‘fortress Europe’ through Libya has serious implications for stability and state consolidation in the Sahel and Maghreb.
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Reforming informal membership and practice of the UN Security Council
Niels Nagelhus Schia | 09 September 2024Informal negotiations on peace and security advance efficiency but undermine legitimacy of the Council’s actions
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Creating good job opportunities at local level: a way to stop young people being attracted to terrorism
Amagoin Keita | 26 August 2025The Malian government should consider local government their main ally in creating youth employment.
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Refugees across the Mediterranean: causes and consequences
Morten Bøås | 11 July 2025Refugee transport is a new and growing industry in Libya, posing difficult questions for European policymakers
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A successful DDR is the key to Mali’s long-term peace
Kamissa Camara | 10 July 2025Disarmament, Demobilization and Reinsertion of rebel groups back into society is crucial for peace, but faces challenges.
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Wahhabiyya paranoia in Bamako and the new intolerance of the tolerant
Tone Sommerfelt , Anne Hatløy , Kristin Jesnes | 10 July 2025Social distrust and discrimination of religious minorities is part of the post-2012 political dynamic in southern Mali.
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Is Africa becoming more powerful?
Karlijn Muiderman | 08 July 2025Jakkie Cilliers supports the current discourse of a rising Africa, but claims it is being disrupted by a lack of good governance, high inequality and population growth.
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Understanding MINUSMA’s mandate for humanitarian coordination efforts
Jopy Willems | 08 July 2025Since the UN stabilisation mission arrived in Mali the humanitarian field has changed.
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