Analysis
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Conflict Trends Report May 2017
This month’s issue focuses on the strategies, patterns and geography of al-Shabaab violence in Kenya and Somalia, an upswing in riot activity in Ghana by New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters, political party protest activity during election primaries in Kenya, decreasing conflict activity by Boko Haram and Fulani militias in Nigeria and escalating rebel clashes &…
Cartel Violence in Mexico (2016-17)
This Policy Research Project on Mexico’s security policy—sponsored by the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law—will address Mexico’s major security challenges and offer a series of policy recommendations. The report is divided into four chapters, focusing on the overall security strategy, important domestic and international security issues, illicit economic markets, and civil society…
Conflict Trends April 2017
This month’s issue focuses on the scope and scaleof operations conducted by the Kamwina Nsapumilitia across the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, banditry attacks and retaliatory communal violence in Madagascar, the surge of violence in Mali following the recent merger between Islamist groups into the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (AQM) group…
Untangling the Complexity of Fragile States
Andrew Albertson and Ashley Moran, Truman Center, 2017
Conflict Trends March 2017
This month’s issue focuses on President el-Sisi’ssecuritisation of Egypt to remove the opportunityfor protest, union-led protests in Guinea, a decrease in political violence in Ivory Coast following mutiny in January, increasing xenophobic violence & riots and protests across South Africa, a review of conflict dynamics in South Sudan after violence re-erupted between the government and…
Asian Conflict Trends February 2017
The February 2017 ACLED-Asia Conflict Trends includes a general overview of the violence recorded in South and Southeast Asia throughout 2016. Following a review of the 2016 data, the report continues by focusing on different conflict subjects throughout the region. These include: regional violence in Pakistan, the effects of the capture of Osama Bin Laden, insurgency…
Conflict Trends Report February 2017
This month’s report is an overview of conflict in 2016 and profiles trends in violence in six key focus countries: Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Republic of Congo, Somalia and Tunisia (see pages 7-8). In-depth reports outline how reduction in riot and protest activity in Ethiopia have been replaced by sustained battles between state forces and OLF…
Water and Electric Power in Iraq and Syria: Conflict and Fragility Implications for the Future
Kevin Rosner, Robert Strauss Center, 2016
Conflict Trends Report December 2016
This month’s issue focuses on increasing intra-militia violence in Central African Republic, the continuation of political violence dynamics in Democratic Republic of Congo and the emergence of the Kamwina Nsapu militia in 2016, the poorly developed protest landscape in Egypt under an increasingly repressive el-Sisi regime, endemic student and election riots and protests across South…
Conflict Trends Report November 2016
This month’s issue focuses on the chances oflocalised protest episodes – including organisedlabour movements – to coordinate across Egyptand escalating violence in the Sinai Peninsula, theincreasing incidence of violent riots and the emergence of local armed militias in Ethiopia as concessions by the TPLF fail to abate unrest, and rising anti-state violence in Greater Equatoria…