While recharging Lake Chad will not solve the crisis permanently, it could ultimately provide a livelihood and home for displaced herders and save thousands of lives.
Tag: conflict
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The chairman and co-founder of the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, Farea al-Muslimi, describes the current state of the conflict in Yemen and whether there are possibilities for peace.
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Among the many challenges Myanmar faces, issues related to conflict resolution—not the least the Rohingya issue—could, if not handled properly, turn into serious stumbling blocks in their efforts to implement the SDGs.
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Charo Mina-Rojas of Black Communities’ Process (Proceso de Comunidades Negras-PCN) in Colombia discusses the peace process, the role of governments in protecting minorities, and the importance of including gender and ethnic perspectives in sustaining peace.
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The violence in Yemen continues and the situation tells the tale of an on-going civil war, multiple factions with diverging interests, and a wide range of unaddressed grievances of a deeply divided society. Media outlets and the international community focus primarily on the conflict between the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Houthis, but there are other worrisome disputes that endanger the prospect of any future stabilization.
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Political corruption allows non-democratic leaders to build political support through networks of dependency, extending the duration of their regimes.
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Both Burundi and The Gambia offer a chance to connect prevention to elections in particular, and to adapt new thinking around the role of prevention to build up democratic institutions and permit smooth, legitimate transfers of power.
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Crucially, the UK’s position as one of the five permanent members on the UN Security Council helped create a new understanding of threats to international peace and security.
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The Duterte administration can ill afford further delays to the Mindanao peace process.
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If the US is indeed to abandon its support of Ukrainian territorial integrity, it would put the onus on European countries to take a stronger position.
