Detailed Crisis Group reports showcase our best take on how to solve a deadly conflict or geopolitical crisis, but they represent only part of our method. Our credibility and impact is rooted in field research that is an interactive process. Our analysts travel to war zones and remote crisis regions where they meet a uniquely wide spectrum of people, from top officials to the media, and from civil society activists to front line commanders. Our colleagues are not just asking questions, they are sharing information, testing ideas, and advocating recommendations that can prevent the outbreak of war or advance the cause of peace. “Our Journeys” are first-person narratives that give behind the scenes access to this essential part of our work.
Just before major battles in northern Yemen and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crisis Group expert Peter Salisbury travelled to Marib, the government’s last stronghold. He found a region coping well with massive displacement but fearing a settlement that would favour the advancing Huthis.
A February 2019 agreement is the latest in a string of attempts to bring peace to the Central African Republic. Will it hold? Crisis Group expert Hans de Marie Heungoup goes to the country to find out, along with photographer Julie David de Lossy.
Sniper fire and clashes have become rare on the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In a year that has seen positive steps to mitigate the decades-old conflict in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, this photo essay illustrates how some Armenian front-line villagers’ lives have slowly improved.
A new communication channel has sparked hope for negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh. But as Crisis Group Analyst Zaur Shiriyev found talking to Azerbaijani soldiers and villagers living near the front, decades of conflict mean that the path to peace will be rocky.
Gold and migrants stream across the stretch of the Cuyuní river that marks the Guyana-Venezuela border. Guerrillas and criminal organisations control much of the flow. Their turf wars are already spilling over and could intensify if foreign powers intervene to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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