Liberia has been hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak. It makes sense to focus much attention to this country, as well as its neighbours Sierra Leone and Guinea. But Ebola is not just a crisis for Liberia Sierra Leone, or Guinea. The devastation it c...

Non-state governance: “We need to go back to a more fundamental question: should we be there in the first place?”

Now that the post-2015 agenda is developing into an integrated framework, how will it define the conflict paradigm?

A recent UN workshop highlighted the ‘blind spot’ of men and boys as victims of sexual violence in conflict. 

Africa remains doomed. This is what the Failed States Index 2013 claims. Three-quarters of the continent is portrayed as ‘critical’, and the other quarter as ‘in danger’ or ‘borderline’. 

The launch of the seventh Global Peace Index and the integration of socio-economic indicators.

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

Discussions on what should be the new global agenda after the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) started years ago. The post-2015 agenda has been central in several previous debates on The Broker. This is a short synopsis of other r...