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’.
The Audacity of Indifference: Can Mali’s government resolve the conflict in the north?
Bruce Whitehouse | 20 March 2025The Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has not demonstrated that reunifying the divided country is a top priority of his administration.
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Rebels and extremist stories from northern Mali
Paul Mben | 08 March 2025As long as the northern part of Mali is not occupied by armed troops, it will remain insecure and dangerous.
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Poverty and unemployment encourage organized crime
Sasha Jesperson | 07 March 2025While cocaine flows through West Africa may have declined, the structures that facilitated trafficking are still in place.
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Is a renewed Algerian regional diplomacy emerging?
Laurence Aïda Ammour | 05 March 2025In recent years, Algeria’s influence has progressively deteriorated. The Mali crisis might be the first real test for Algeria's new-look regional diplomacy.
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The challenges of economic development in conflict-affected areas
Ruud van Soelen | 04 March 2025In post-conflict Mali individuals with an increased sense of security are exploring new opportunities to venture into economic activity.
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Five strategic failures of the French intervention in Mali
Richard Reeve | 03 March 2025While jihadist groups such as Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) were defeated within Mali in 2013, this article highlights five failings of the intervention logic that suggest this was a tactical rather than strategic defeat.
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The Libyan crisis - Implications for stabilization efforts in the Sahel and Northern Mali
Morten Bøås | 03 March 2025To succeed in Northern Mali, the international community must apply a much broader regional focus beyond current narrow counter-terrorism efforts.
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Mali in the international setting
Andrew Lebovich | 03 March 2025This international dimension to the conflict in northern Mali is complex, fluid and often unclear, but remains essential to understanding the state of play in the contemporary Sahara-Sahel region.
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What management theory can contribute to the Comprehensive Approach
Marc van den Homberg | 30 December 2024Management theory can provide interesting insights and solutions for problems faced with the planning of joint operations
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Is political economy analysis too challenging for aid donors?
Sue Unsworth | 30 December 2024Political economy analysis lays bare the flaws in technocratic, aid centric approaches to development that have long characterised mainstream practice.
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