The Conflict Research Unit (CRU) conducts research on the nexus between security and development with a special focus on integrated/ comprehensive approaches on conflict prevention, stabilisation and reconstruction in fragile and conflict-affected situations. The CRU focuses on the following research topics:
Dr. Bibi van Ginkel and Ivan Briscoe analyse the relationship between the development and counter-terrorism sectors in light of the changing nature of terrorism.
This CRU Report presents some of the main challenges for adequate engagement with non-state actors in fragile and conflict-affected situations, and concludes that its success will rest or fall on donors engaging with a full range of non-state actors based on their assets and how their activities
Monday July 9th 2012 marked South Sudan's first anniversary as an independent state. But one year down the road, what is there to celebrate for this newborn polity?
The end-point of Syria's brutal and escalating conflict is impossible to foretell, but this does not mean that the international community cannot prepare for the outcome.
The point of no return has been reached many times now and every time it does, someone in Syria presses down hard on the accelerator. First, it was the sniper fire against peaceful protesters. Then came mortar fire into rebellious suburbs and the onset of roaming militia.
This brief seeks to explain the fundamental errors and misconceptions which ensure that the fight against global crime, while scoring ever more arrests and interdictions, has failed to make headway against trafficking through fragile states.
On 6 June 2012, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations announced plans to jointly establish and operate the new Global Focal Point for police, justice and corrections.
This brief seeks to explain the fundamental errors and misconceptions which ensure that the fight against transnational organized crime, while scoring ever more arrests and interdictions, has failed to make headway against trafficking through some of the poorest and most fragile countries in the
In mid-2010, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in particular the Peacebuilding and Stabilization Unit (PSU; or, in its Dutch form, EFV) and the Directorate on Security Policy (DVB) embarked on an innovative and collaborative project with the 1st German Netherlands Corps (1GNC) and the
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