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A Long Way from Havana: The Colombian Peace Process Stumbles
BY JOSHUA ZAKHAROV In August 2016, Juan Manuel Santos, then President of Colombia, and Timoleon “Timochenko” Jimenez, then leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), shook hands in… Read More -
Isolated Qatar Worsens Amid Pressure from Regional Adversaries
BY PATRICIA TAFT In a year of rapidly shifting priorities, alliances and politics across the greater Middle East, the small oil and gas-rich nation of Qatar took the greatest fall… Read More -
A Nation Divided Against Itself: Internal Divisions Fuel U.S. Worsening
BY J.J. MESSNER AND CHARLES FIERTZ More than any previous year, the 2018 Fragile States Index (FSI) has demonstrated that rich and developed countries can be just as prone as… Read More -
Catalan Divorce Proceedings Fuel Spanish Division and Instability
BY AMANDA QUINN October 1, 2017 marked the beginning of an intense social, political and constitutional crisis in Spain as Catalonia, a semi-autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, attempted… Read More -
Scraping the Barrel: Oil-Dependent Venezuela in Free-Fall
BY HANNAH BLYTH When the 14-year rule of the populist President Hugo Chávez came to an end upon his death in 2013, Venezuela was already well down the path to… Read More -
No Confidence: Political In-Fighting Continues to Plague South Africa
BY OLIVER CHANDLER South Africa grabbed the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2017 with political brawls, corruption allegations, cabinet reshuffles and political infighting. In August, South African President… Read More -
It's (Not) the Economy, Stupid
BY NATE HAKEN It was a rough year for the United States in 2017. It was the country’s worst year for hurricanes – Irma, Harvey, and Maria caused hundreds of billions… Read More -
The Authoritarian's Playbook: Central Europe's Slide Toward Illiberalism
BY CHARLES FIERTZ At the beginning of the 21st century, Hungary and Poland were frequently lauded as two of the most successful examples of democratic transitions, emerging from the shadow… Read More
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Despite gains on the #FragileStatesIndex, there are indications that the #Colombia peace process is stumbling. https://t.co/a4tZdMKCqu
"I'll be a better coach and a better mentor" - Okpiaru Efosa, a participant at the CAPABLE 'How to be a Coach and Mentor' training for certified M4P facilitators training held from 13 to 16 August 2018.
There is no alternative to Peace.
With Peace. Development is sure
With Peace..Employment is sure
With Peace..It will no longer be "Thank God it's Friday", but Thank God it is a new day.
Join us @p4privers. 2gether we can make Rivers State Great again.
PEACE.YES!
@P4P_NigerDelta
Thank you to our wonderful team of Summer Research Assistants.
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Good luck for your future careers and we’ll miss you!
#Mali's fragility has been on the rise in the past years according to the #FSI2018. The current #MaliElections violence has only added to the country's instability. https://t.co/GaPwvCKZ7S
#Zimbabwe's peaceful #ZimbabweDecides2018 election comes amid an improving outlook in #FSI2018 for the nation post-Mugabe. https://t.co/GaPwvCKZ7S
We are looking forward to working with @MBuhari and #ECOWAS on advancing human security in the West Africa region.
Truly humbled by my election today as the new Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS. I pledge to serve and work with my fellow Heads of State to deliver on peace, security, good governance and socio-economic development in the region.
If you want to understand fragility be sure to check out @NdpIfdn & @PINDFoundation partner @fundforpeace and their #FragileStatesIndex https://t.co/3g4ouddpUP
@Lacroix_UN @Hoosier84 @UN Data from @fundforpeace #FragileStatesIndex supports this: all three countries — Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮, Liberia 🇱🇷, and Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 — have improved significantly over the past 15 years.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the findings of the 2018 @oecd #StatesOfFragility report align very closely with the findings of the 2018 #FragileStatesIndex — https://t.co/lKaCt6Ea3v @jmoreiradasilva