Daily headlines highlight the urgent need for the international community to find a coherent shared approach to managing and mitigating conflict. In Syria alone — just one of the countries most affected by war in recent years — 74,000 people died in 2014 and nearly 250,000 have died in the last three years due to…
In the past few weeks, we’ve all seen the headlines as growing numbers of refugees flee the ongoing conflict in Syria. According to the armed conflicts database maintained by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, there are currently 42 active conflicts in the world, more than 12 million refugees, and approximately 180,000 people have been…
The World Bank estimates that 1.2 billion people, roughly one fifth of the world’s population, are currently affected by some form of violence or insecurity. Conflicts and crises – be it civil unrest, political instability, or war – can derail development progress, wreaking havoc on even the most carefully laid plans. And civilian populations often…
This post was originally published by the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and is cross-posted with permission. “It’s hard… I lost many things because of this violence. We lost so much in this crisis. I apologize to the Wè and Malinke youth, and strangers, too, so we can avoid another crisis in Duékoué. Let’s make peace, let’s…
Land conflicts among villages in Côte d’Ivoire have very real political and economic repercussions. In most regions, the village committee, made up of individuals selected based on family and ethnic lineage, decides land ownership. In theory, as long as this local governance structure remains stable, land disputes can be solved peacefully. However, in the western…
Through upgrades in data gathering, knowledge creation, and information sharing, MIND strengthened early warning systems for floods and cyclones and helped improve disaster management and contingency planning. In the process, MIND fostered networking and built Mozambican capacity to unprecedented levels. MIND combined a spectrum of tools — from high-tech, satellite-derived rainfall estimations to multicolored cyclone…