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Fragile States Index 2020 Released
BY J.J. MESSNER DE LATOUR As many countries continue to suffer thousands of deaths and millions experience social isolation and economic hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis, the 2020 Fragile… Read More -
Democracies Under Pressure
BY NATE HAKEN On debate stages, behind pulpits, in lecture halls, journals, books, and op-ed pages, experts and politicians grapple with causes, implications, and solutions to the issue of growing… Read More -
A Pot Boiling Over: Chile Most Worsened in 2020
BY CHARLES FIERTZ On October 7, in the Santiago metro, a group of students began jumping turnstiles to protest a four percent rise in peak-time fares announced the day before.… Read More -
Exit from Brexit: U.K. Continues Rapid Fall
BY J.J. MESSNER DE LATOUR AND FIONA GRATHWOHL Brexit. In many ways, it would be easy to sum up the fortunes of the United Kingdom over the last five years… Read More -
Regional Instability Drives Worsening in Burkina Faso
BY MARCEL MAGLO AND FIONA GRATHWOHL Burkina Faso, formerly considered one of West Africa’s most stable countries, now rates as the fourth most worsened country in the 2020 Fragile States… Read More -
Colombia's Peace Deal Unravels
BY CHARLES FIERTZ Colombia saw its worst year-on-year change in the history of the Fragile States Index (FSI) in 2020, breaking a trend of almost uninterrupted improvement since the Index’s… Read More -
What Else Could Go Wrong? Mozambique Continues Worsening Trend
BY CHARLES FIERTZ A combination of natural disasters, insurgent attacks, and a contested election resulted in another challenging year for Mozambique, which tied with Libya for the second-most worsened country… Read More -
Division in India
BY CHARLES FIERTZ In 1989, foreshadowing events to come, India’s current ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) issued the Palampur Resolution, throwing their support behind the construction of a… Read More
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Watch FFP's @natehaken discuss bringing a #ConflictAnalysis lens to #fragility within the #US on last Wednesday's panel moderated by @Lizhume4peace. Click the link below to stream & learn more about @AfPeacebuilding's upcoming weekly webinars:
https://t.co/RmAADcDQp6
#Students: Final call to submit you essay response to @PINDFoundation & #NPDI's short film 'For the Good of All' for a chance to get #published! Competition closes this Friday (4/23) at midnight.
#Students: Looking for an opportunity to get published? Deadline to submit your essay response to FFP's #EssayContest is extended to April 23rd. We look forward to reading your entries! https://t.co/rpNAJVs6I5
This piece I wrote for FFP still hopefully holds water. "Until the better portion of the GERD Reservoir is filled, Ethiopia has limited motivation to make significant negotiation concessions at all and plenty to gain from continuing to defer agreement." https://t.co/SMI5Qfycbe https://t.co/fIv4pjOtX8
FFP's @natehaken shared some critical thoughts on which factors made countries #resilient in response to #COVID19 on today's Preventing and Reducing Conflict and Instability in the US panel hosted by @AfPeacebuilding
"When we looked at which countries were able to prove more resilience in the face of this complex shock [COVID-19], countries with more social cohesion tended to do better." - Nate Haken, @fundforpeace #Peace4US
Recent article on @openDemocracy references FFP's #FragileStatesIndex while discussing the need for a multifaceted approach to understanding the #ArabSpring @EU_H2020 @ArabBarometer https://t.co/aeGBuTfrPm
Catch my latest "GERDlock: Inaction as Method of Dominance on the Blue Nile" about Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam negotiations! Coming to you from @fundforpeace's Deconflictions! #hydropolitics #gerd #nile
https://t.co/SMI5Qfycbe
In light of this week's failed negotiations over GERD among #Ethiopia #Sudan and #Egypt, #FFP RA @natoshahoduski offers a compelling explanation for why, over the past decade, #Ethiopia has been so unwilling to come to an agreement over the river's waters: https://t.co/o3CzZdgAgt
Interesting blog post by @TheoPapaioannou on how #innovation, #creativity, and #entrepreneurialism can be encouraged and facilitated by the state to reduce #fragility and increase #resilience post #COVID19. Read here: https://t.co/UIenLx6g38
#Students: Looking for an opportunity to get published? Deadline to submit your essay response to FFP's #EssayContest is extended to April 23rd. We look forward to reading your entries! https://t.co/rpNAJVs6I5
See how FFP's #FSI indicator of #StateLegitimacy is used to look at how state capacity influences crime levels around the world:
https://t.co/8BounxqO1t