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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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Happy #FragileStatesIndex and #FFP in the media Friday! This thread is updated every Friday with references made toward both the FSI and FFP in the media that week.
Guinea's score in the #fragilestatesindex has gradually improved since 2015, driven by steady improvements in human rights, group grievance, and factionalized elites. The military coup has created a volatile situation which threatens these gains.
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Interesting article on how the US can strengthen security in the Sahel by @MichaelShurkin in @WarOnTheRocks. Though the US can't focus entirely on the littoral states, some of these recommendations could reduce their vulnerability to spillovers. https://t.co/QCFPV8VYjl
Read this NEW piece featured on @TheWilsonCenter's @NewSecurityBeat, authored by Cynthia Brady & AfP's @Lizhume4peace and Nick Zuroski, on how the U.S. can integrate conflict prevention and climate change in its foreign assistance.
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PBI participants visit memorial sites to learn about the history of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. Looking at images of the victims and the gruesome murders raises painful emotions but also nurtures a personal responsibility to prevent discrimination and mass atrocities.
"One of the ironies of the so-called war on terrorism is that it focused on treating the symptoms of failed or “fragile” states, not the causes of their violence and unrest." - Anthony Cordesman of @CSIS
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