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Statement / Venezuela

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.

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

Pandemic Gloom and Police Violence Leave Colombia in Turmoil

Colombia’s cities, towns and countryside are aflame with popular protests. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Elizabeth Dickinson traces the unrest’s origins to inequality, police impunity and the government’s seeming aloofness from the street.

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Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy
Podcast / Middle East & North Africa

Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy

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

Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy

DR Congo: No Grace Period for the New Government
Q&A / Africa

République Démocratique du Congo : pas de délai de grâce pour le nouveau gouvernement

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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

 
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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

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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

6 May 2021
Protesters’ demands are really growing by the day [in Columbia]. It’s a list of very significant changes for the state and for right or wrong, they would entail very significant, deep reforms... Al Jazeera

Elizabeth Dickinson

Senior Analyst, Colombia
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
3 May 2021
Déby’s death is certainly a hard blow to the multinational efforts for both security and development cooperation in the Lake Chad region. The Africa Report

Nnamdi Obasi

Senior Adviser, Nigeria
1 May 2021
The [economic] impact [of the pandemic in Africa] has been immense. These are countries with very limited social safety nets, and … very little resources to respond to a crisis of this magnitude. The Guardian

Murithi Mutiga

Project Director, Horn of Africa
28 Apr 2021
This is the Iranian equivalent of an October surprise -- a deliberate leak timed to prevent the pro-engagement forces of Iranian politics from having any say in the upcoming elections RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Ali Vaez

Senior Adviser to the President & Project Director, Iran
27 Apr 2021
Any sort of miscalculation could happen [in Somalia]. It just takes one trigger-happy soldier to fire on the other side, and that's going to erupt those dynamics. AFP

Omar Mahmood

Senior Analyst, Somalia

Regional Updates

Global

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

Explaining the UN Secretary-General’s Cautious Crisis Diplomacy

Media Release

Susana Malcorra, Former Foreign Minister of Argentina, Appointed Co-chair of Crisis Group Board

Impact Note

How Climate Science Can Help Conflict Prevention

Africa

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

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

Podcast

Somalia’s Dangerous Impasse

Q&A

République Démocratique du Congo : pas de délai de grâce pour le nouveau gouvernement

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

Pandemic Gloom and Police Violence Leave Colombia in Turmoil
Q&A

Pandemic Gloom and Police Violence Leave Colombia in Turmoil

Commentary

A Rebel Playing Field: Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

Video

Colombian Guerrillas on the Venezuelan Border

Middle East & North Africa

Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy
Podcast

Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy

Statement

Why Palestinian Elections Should Get Back on Track

Op-Ed

The Middle-Class Women of Iran Are Disappearing

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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