Fragile States
Although the phenomenon of state failure is not new, it has become much more relevant and worrying than ever before. In less interconnected eras, state weakness could be isolated and kept distant. Failure had fewer implications for peace and security. Now, within a more interconnected global community these fragile states pose dangers not only to themselves and their neighbors but also to peoples around the globe. Preventing states from failing, and resuscitating those that do fail, are thus strategic and global imperatives. CIC has provided research in this arena, developed panel dicussions that have explored critical issues confronting failed states. CIC has also drawn on expertise from the practitioner, NGO, academic and UN communities, provided candid recommendations and potential solutions to the global threat that failed states present.
Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Congo Research Group, Prevention and Peacebuilding
Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Horn of Africa, Libya, Syria, South Asia, India, West Africa
A Summary of UN-IFI Institutional Arrangements and Instruments in FCV Contexts
This annex briefly outlines the institutional means and instruments through which the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), and the United Nations (UN) engage in fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) contexts. It accompanies the UN-IFI briefing paper series.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Marc Jacquand
Topic(s): Crises, Fragile States, Global Governance, United Nations
Program(s): Multilateral Reform, Prevention and Peacebuilding
For the Army, With the Army, Like the Army? The Rise of Guidon Shimiray and the NDC-Rénové in Eastern Congo
Formerly a small local militia, Guidon Shimiray's Nduma Defence of Congo-Rénové (NDC-R) is today one of the most powerful armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A new report from CIC's Congo Research Group (CRG) draws on 18 months of fieldwork to provide the first in-depth investigation into the origins of this armed group, showing how it is part of a proxy war led by the Congolese army.
Topic(s): Fragile States, International Security
The Triple Nexus in Practice: Toward a New Way of Working in Protracted and Repeated Crises
In 2016, global policymakers came together to confront a critical policy dilemma: what is, or should be, the role of humanitarian action in a world beset by "permanent emergencies" that do not end, in which the root causes are overwhelmingly structural and political? One major outcome of the summit was the commitment to a "new way of working" based on linking the "triple nexus" of humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding (HDP) efforts. CIC's new report, The Triple Nexus in Practice: Toward a New Way of Working in Protracted and Repeated Crises, shares the results of a major independent review of the implementation of this process.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Leah Zamore
Topic(s): 2030 Agenda, Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises
Program(s): Humanitarian Crises
Security Council Working Methods and UN Peace Operations: The Case of Chad and the Central African Republic
Knights in Fragile Armor: The Rise of "G7+"
The Arab Awakening | America and the Transformation of the Middle East
ISIL won't get very far in Afghanistan - for now
Syria's refugees: a global responsibility
Amid Deteriorating Ties With Pakistan, Afghan Leader Makes Tough Demands
Libya to Europe: Please Don't Come to Our Rescue
Congo Research Group