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The main factors contributing to the rise of Boko Haram firstly relate to the internal crisis of Nigeria’s government.

Chad’s approach of engagement in regional governance for peace stands in stark contrast to its approach to governance at home.

Rebel groups and conflicts are understood and framed in very different ways by various actors, even by those collaborating to end a conflict.

In Ethiopia and many African countries, we need a recalibration of developmentalist authoritarianism that feeds exclusion and conflict.

As the European Union struggles to deal with the increased inflow of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, international and regional actors are trying to broker a unity government to bring stability to the country and the...

With so many conflicts emerging in Africa, the connections between these conflicts are becoming important. While conflicts are influenced by a diverse array of factors at local, national, regional and international levels, there is a need for poli...

After eight months of hard talks the Algiers process resulted in a ceasefire agreement and the final draft of a peace plan on 1 March.

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The Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has not demonstrated that reunifying the divided country is a top priority of his administration.

This 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.

To succeed in Northern Mali, the international community must apply a much broader regional focus beyond current narrow counter-terrorism efforts.

For more than two years, Mali has been suffering from a sudden eruption of armed conflict. In recent decades, economic, ecological, political and security factors have combined to create fertile ground for conflict. This led to ethnic tensions and...

The upsurge in violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle is often named in one breath with the drugs market. Although apparently obvious describing an illegal trade that has met with exclusively repressive state responses, assumptions on cau...

The root causes of many resource-related conflicts, hidden or openly violent and armed, are grounded within power constellations around conflicting interests. Within those power dynamics, national and global economic influences often override loca...

Actividades extractivas tienen que integrar los intereses estratégicos y las urgencias económicas de los gobiernos con las demandas de los pueblos indígenas.

Colombia no es la excepción de adquisiciones masivas de tierras en el mundo.

Conference report of the 24th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence,Geneva Switzerland.

In 2007, Ecuador launched the Yasuní-ITT initiative, a proposal to leave oil in the soil of the Yasuní National Park in exchange for financial compensation from the international community.

Complexity theory sheds light on the essential role of self-organization in sustainable peace consolidation

There is no easy answer to the question of the fate of Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT region, but a few key steps can maximize the areas of agreement of the many vested interests.

How to eradicate the root causes of resource conflicts?

Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen are embroiled in an enduring dispute over the use of fishing grounds in the Palk Bay. The dispute is not only a matter of big India versus small Sri Lanka, or big boats versus small boats. Rather, Sri Lankan Tamil f...

The success of Israel’s innovative water technology is distracting attention from its restrictions on Palestinian access to water.

 Minerals play an important role in the Congolese conflict. But it is certainly not only about greed.

Sudan-South Sudan border disputes remain unsettled, if not increasingly conflictual

Viewing countries through an R2P paradigm requires active international support and strong US leadership

More than 80% of labour disputes in China are solved through mediation, but the processes do not eliminate the antagonism.

The HLP report does not seem far-reaching enough to put its idealistic image-sketching into practice  

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Yesterday I attended a meeting, organized by the Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN), about the role that the European Union could and should play in conflict prevention and resolution in ‘situations of fragility’. 

Humanitarianism today is faced with many challenges. On 2-5 June 2011, the Second World Conference on Humanitarian Studies (WCHS) brought together the best of thinkers and researchers to discuss urgent questions about the changing nature of curren...

The Broker runs an editor's blog on this Human Security theme page. 

The Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico is like a Mecca for complexity science. Physicists, biologists, cosmologists, anthropologists, playwrights and even novelists spend their time here, breaking down disciplinary boundaries. This time the focus is...

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Five years after its acceptance by the 2005 World Summit, it is time to consider the contribution that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made and could make to the prevention of mass atrocities.

Collecting data on conflict resolution trends began in the 1960s with the early empirical research by the Correlates of War Project. However, little international follow up on the study was done until the surprisingly optimistic findings of the Hu...

Can peace and justice be achieved at the same time? This old dilemma has acquired a new dimension with the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Is the ICC a spur or an obstacle to peace and reconciliation? In northern Uganda, an ans...

Eight years of UN administration in Kosovo have brought stability, but not reconciliation or consensus on the country’s status. The international administration had sufficient manpower, money and time, but has suffered from the lack of internation...