FFP and PIND Nigeria Business Risk Brief – May 2023 Photo by Nate Haken FFP has worked with PIND to develop a new product in support of insurance underwriters, investors, and companies seeking to assess and mitigate the risk of damage or abandonment, inability to access funds, and permanent loss of equity in countries around […]
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Why Was Violence Lower in Nigeria’s 2023 Election: Implications for Peacebuilding?
- 14 August 2023
PIND Foundation and FFP Joint Report Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on Unsplash The 2023 election was unlike any since Nigeria’s Fourth Republic began in 1999. Among the many anomalies and contradictions included high registration and low turnout, a popular third-party candidate, and an electorate less polarized by region, ethnicity, and religion than at any time […]
The Displacement Cycle: Tentative Progress Toward Stability in CAR
- 27 July 2023
BY BENJAMIN WILSON The Central African Republic (CAR) has experienced long-term, widespread insecurity that has contributed to high levels of internal displacement and refugee flows. Although such insecurity intensified in the early-to-mid 2010s, a more stable government has helped the nation improve over the past few years. The Fund for Peace’s Fragile States Index (FSI) […]
A New Balance of Power: The Importance of Managing Partnership in an Increasingly Autocratic World
- 27 July 2023
BY ALEXANDER BERGH Photo by Lucas George Wendt on Unsplash Introduction As the COVID-19 Pandemic swept across the globe, there was a significant decline in democratic governance.[1] Military coups, coup attempts, and takeovers ravaged Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Myanmar, and Sao Tome well as escalating conflict between the Sudanese Government and the […]