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Statement / Nigeria

Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protest: De-escalate Tensions, Start Deep Police Reform

What began as an orderly demonstration against an abusive police squad has become a national crisis in Nigeria. To lower the temperature, the government needs to move quickly to investigate wrongdoing by security agencies, give victims the justice they deserve and initiate far-reaching police reforms. 

Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence
Statement / United States

Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence

As U.S. elections approach, extremist activity, the potential for contestation and President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to transferring power peacefully raise concerns about possible violence. State and local officials should ensure that voting proceeds fairly, while foreign leaders should urge respect for democratic norms. 

Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election
Briefing / Asia

Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election

Also available in Burmese
The International Approach to the Yemen War: Time for a Change?
Commentary / Middle East & North Africa

The International Approach to the Yemen War: Time for a Change?

Originally published in Yemen Policy Center

What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
Podcast / Latin America & Caribbean

What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War

Videos & Photography

Video / Europe & Central Asia

Video: Preventing a Bloody Harvest on the Armenia-Azerbaijan State Border

The fresh violence in the Armenia-Azerbaijan state border now threatens the livelihoods of many facing the impossible choice of leaving their crops to rot or risking their lives gathering their produce for market.

 
Video /

Watch List 2020 Autumn Update (Video)

 
Video / Latin America & Caribbean

Gangs and Plunging Violence in El Salvador

 
Our Journeys / Africa

In Search of the State in the Central African Republic

Also available in Français
 
Our Journeys / Europe & Central Asia

Picturing the Uncertain Calm on Armenia’s Front Lines

 
Our Journeys / Europe & Central Asia

A Listening Tour of the Azerbaijani Front Lines

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Trends for Last Month September 2020

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Outlook for This Month October 2020

Conflict Risk Alerts

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Resolution Opportunities

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President's Take

Crisis Group Turns Focus to Risk of Electoral Violence in the U.S.

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Robert Malley
President & CEO
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In his introduction to this month’s edition of CrisisWatch, our President Robert Malley reflects on Crisis Group's decision to focus on the risk of violence surrounding the upcoming U.S. elections.

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Deadly Conflict

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Salvaging the Security Council’s Coronavirus Response
Commentary / The Covid-19 Pandemic and Deadly Conflict

Salvaging the Security Council’s Coronavirus Response

On 1 July, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a global COVID-19 ceasefire, as the Secretary-General had urged months earlier. Their appeal has fallen flat. Council members should use their August downtime to look at how it might still do some good.

Speech / Global

What’s Happened to the UN Secretary-General’s COVID-19 Ceasefire Call?

Report / Asia

An Avoidable War: Politics and Armed Conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Briefing / Asia

Conflict, Health Cooperation and COVID-19 in Myanmar

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

8 Oct 2020
It’s very strange indeed to have the president of the United States say something out loud and then have all the rest of us wondering if it really means anything. Washington Post

Laurel Miller

Program Director, Asia
7 Oct 2020
Drones have enabled [Turkey] to drive the PKK out of mountainous pockets where they had established a significant presence. Financial Times

Nigar Göksel

Project Director, Turkey
7 Oct 2020
The arms embargo in Libya died many years ago. What changed this year was that the violations of the embargo came out into the open more. The Guardian

Claudia Gazzini

Consulting Analyst, Libya
6 Oct 2020
The military [...] simply has not had the time nor shown the will to address violence in the way that many rural Sudanese would need to see in order to put down their weapons. AFP

Jonas Horner

Deputy Project Director, Horn of Africa & Senior Analyst, Sudan
5 Oct 2020
The people who have been released [from detention camps in Syria] are struggling to reintegrate, and the economic situation outside is already very bad. The Washington Post

Dareen Khalifa

Senior Analyst, Syria
3 Oct 2020
This is a more serious escalation [over Nagorno-Karabakh], much better prepared, with more troops, and happening simultaneously on all parts of the front line. The Economist

Olesya Vartanyan

Senior Analyst, South Caucasus

Regional Updates

Global

Watch List 2020 – Autumn Update
EU Watch List

Watch List 2020 – Autumn Update

Op-Ed

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Event Recording

The UN at 75: Requiem or Renewal?

Africa

The Horn: Strengthening Africa’s Hand in Peace and Security
Podcast

The Horn: Strengthening Africa’s Hand in Peace and Security

Podcast

The Horn: Eritrea’s One-man Rule

Commentary

Political Turmoil ahead of Somalia’s Elections

Asia

Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election
Briefing

Majority Rules in Myanmar’s Second Democratic Election

Q&A

Behind Bangkok’s Wave of Popular Dissent

Commentary

Keeping Intra-Afghan Talks on Track

Europe & Central Asia

Turkey Flexes Its Foreign Policy Muscles
Podcast

Turkey Flexes Its Foreign Policy Muscles

Statement

Reducing the Human Cost of the New Nagorno-Karabakh War

Podcast

War & Peace: Russian Digital Diplomacy

Latin America & Caribbean

What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
Podcast

What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War

Commentary

Bolivia’s Landslide Lays to Rest the Fears of Fraud

Commentary

Time to End the Lethal Limbo of the U.S.-Mexican Drug Wars

Middle East & North Africa

The International Approach to the Yemen War: Time for a Change?
Commentary

The International Approach to the Yemen War: Time for a Change?

Speech

Gulf Tensions Could Trigger a Conflict Nobody Wants

Briefing

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

United States

Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence
Statement

Too Much to Lose: Steering the U.S. Away from Election-Related Violence

Commentary

Yemen Should be a Factor in U.S. Yemen Policy

Podcast

Hold Your Fire: President Trump’s Off-the-Rails Foreign Policy

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