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Q&A / Israel/Palestine

The Israel-Palestine Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Portents

The confrontations across Israel-Palestine are well on the way to becoming one of the worst spasms of violence there in recent memory. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts explain what is behind the explosive events and where they might lead.

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized
Statement / Latin America & Caribbean

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized

A series of gestures from Caracas suggests that President Nicolás Maduro’s government might be more willing to negotiate with rivals and enact partial reforms. Washington should respond in kind with phased sanctions relief and diplomatic gestures that can be reversed if Venezuela backslides.

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UN Security Council Crankiness and Antonio Guterres' Re-election
Podcast / Global

UN Security Council Crankiness and Antonio Guterres' Re-election

Pandemic Gloom and Police Violence Leave Colombia in Turmoil
Q&A / Latin America & Caribbean

Pandemic Gloom and Police Violence Leave Colombia in Turmoil

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Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy
Commentary / Multilateral Diplomacy

Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy

Videos & Photography

Video / Africa

What Data Says About Herder-Farmer Violence in Nigeria

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

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Video / Africa

What is Happening in South Sudan?

 
Video / Asia

Myanmar Edges Toward State Collapse Following Coup

 
Video / Middle East & North Africa

Peacemaking in Yemen Needs Women's Voices

 
Video / Africa

Resolving the Insurgency in South Sudan's Equatoria Region

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Fighters for Peace: The Struggle of Latin America’s Women Activists

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Deeply Rooted: Coca Eradication and Violence in Colombia

 
Video / Africa

A New Strategy to End the Sahel's Wars

 
Video /

Video – 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2021

 
Video / Asia

Two Years On, China Still Holds Michael Kovrig in Arbitrary Detention

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Trends for Last Month April 2021

Deteriorated Situations

ChadDemocratic Republic of CongoEthiopiaSomaliaSudanBeninNigeriaIndia (non-Kashmir)PakistanNorthern Ireland (UK)KyrgyzstanTajikistanVenezuelaIsrael/Palestine

Improved Situations

TanzaniaGeorgia

Outlook for This Month May 2021

Conflict Risk Alerts

ChadSomaliaAfghanistan

Resolution Opportunities

Saudi Arabia

President's Take

Violence in Somalia, Déby’s Death and Islamist Militancy in Africa

Contributor

Richard Atwood
Interim President
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In his Interim President’s Take on this month’s CrisisWatch, Richard Atwood looks at what Somalia’s political crisis and Chadian President’s Idriss Déby’s death mean for Africa’s struggles against Islamist militancy.

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Gender and Conflict

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Gender and Conflict
Podcast / Gender and Conflict

Gender and Conflict

For an International Women’s Day special episode of Hold Your Fire!, Naz Modirzadeh and Richard Atwood talk to Azadeh Moaveni, Crisis Group’s gender and conflict expert, about the Women, Peace and Security agenda and Crisis Group’s work on gender and conflict.

Briefing / Gender and Conflict

A Course Correction for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda

Briefing / Middle East & North Africa

Exiles in Their Own Country: Dealing with Displacement in Post-ISIS Iraq

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Podcast / Global

War & Peace: Why Gender Matters in the Fight Against Terrorism

Visual Explainers

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Visual Explainer

Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer

Mapping Middle East tensions

The Iran-U.S. Trigger List

In The News

12 May 2021
Palestinian citizens have been increasingly voting for their representatives to have increased power in politics and to try to change their situation through the political system. AJE

Mairav Zonszein

Senior Analyst, Israel/Palestine
7 May 2021
With the conflict in Tigray set to continue, and many people there supporting armed resistance and even secession, the pressing challenge for the prime minister is holding the country together Reuters

William Davison

Senior Analyst, Ethiopia
6 May 2021
There is no way you could credibly claim that any armed or criminal group is motivating or coercing protesters to the street [in Colombia]. Al Jazeera

Elizabeth Dickinson

Senior Analyst, Colombia
5 May 2021
There is not doubt that if [Egypt and Turkey] find a way to work together [...], this will reflect in pushing forward political stability in Libya. Associated Press

Claudia Gazzini

Consulting Analyst, Libya
4 May 2021
The national army has always been the biggest source of armaments for armed groups in Congo. What’s really needed is a demobilization plan and political deals to discourage support to armed groups. Reuters

Dino Mahtani

Deputy Director, Africa Program
4 May 2021
It’s very clear there is an organized onslaught by opponents of the JCPOA in Iran, against reviving the deal under the Rouhani administration. The Washington Post

Ali Vaez

Senior Adviser to the President & Project Director, Iran

Regional Updates

Global

UN Security Council Crankiness and Antonio Guterres' Re-election
Podcast

UN Security Council Crankiness and Antonio Guterres' Re-election

Podcast

Peacemaking in Cyberspace

Commentary

Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy

Africa

Getting Boko Haram Fighters to Defect
Op-Ed

Getting Boko Haram Fighters to Defect

Speech

Africa’s Peace and Security: The Pressures of COVID-19

Podcast

Somalia’s Dangerous Impasse

Asia

The Normalization Process in the Bangsamoro Faces Rising Uncertainty
Op-Ed

The Normalization Process in the Bangsamoro Faces Rising Uncertainty

Podcast

Has the Spread of Nuclear Weapons Added to Global Stability?

Op-Ed

Iran’s ‘New’ Partnership With China Is Just Business as Usual

Europe & Central Asia

Rising Russia-Ukraine Tensions and the West
Podcast

Rising Russia-Ukraine Tensions and the West

Statement

Responding to the New Crisis on Ukraine’s Borders

Podcast

Colonial Amnesia and Racial Justice in Europe

Latin America & Caribbean

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized
Statement

Venezuela: An Opportunity That Should Be Seized

Q&A

Pandemic Gloom and Police Violence Leave Colombia in Turmoil

Commentary

A Rebel Playing Field: Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

Middle East & North Africa

Syria: How to prevent Israel-Iran shadow war spinning out of control
Op-Ed

Syria: How to prevent Israel-Iran shadow war spinning out of control

Op-Ed

On Israel-Palestine, Biden Must Stop the Harm

Op-Ed

From Diatribes to Dialogue: Why Iran and Saudi Arabia Are Talking

United States

How the U.S. Withdrawal Decision Will Affect the Afghan Conflict
Q&A

How the U.S. Withdrawal Decision Will Affect the Afghan Conflict

Op-Ed

The Arduous Path to Restoring the Iran Nuclear Deal

Podcast

What’s the Point of Nuclear Weapons Today?

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