Expert meeting: The conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan - How to get the genie back in the bottle?
June 21, 2010. On 22 June the Clingendael Conflict Research Unit organizes a small-scale expert meeting on the causes and consequences of the ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, entitled: "The conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan - How to get the genie back in the bottle?" Read more »
The Lord’s Resistance Army: In Search for a New Approach
April 27, 2010. On Monday 17 May, The Clingendael Conflict Research Unit (CRU) organizes an expert meeting on the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), entitled The Lord’s Resistance Army: In Search for a New Approach. The LRA developed out of several rebel movements that emerged in the wake of the events that brought Uganda’s incumbent president Yoweri Museveni to power in 1987. Northern Uganda initially suffered the greatest burden of LRA activity and the movement’s warfare with the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). But gradually, Joseph Kony’s small yet resilient guerrilla army has turned into a regional menace. Today, Southern Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR) are its key operational bases. Read more »
Aiming High, Reaching Low Four Fundamentals for Gender-Responsive State-building,
April 1, 2010. Current external state-building strategies encounter severe difficulties in implementing policy commitments to gender-responsive engagement with fragile states. Because certain areas for intervention are stereotyped as gender-relevant at the expense of others, gender considerations are too often sidelined to subordinate parallel tracks and thus isolated from priority areas for intervention. Cognisant of the many challenges involved in state-building, this policy brief identifies and discusses four building-blocks for the implementation of a gender-responsive approach to state-building in fragile contexts. Download PDF»
Recent publications
| ES | Una guerra sin resultados, Ivan Briscoe |
| EN | A Drug War on Auto-Pilot, Ivan Briscoe |
| EN | Een filmische wake-up call uit het hart der duisternis, Rosan Smits |
| NL | Olie op de golven: het nieuwe geschil over de Falklandeilanden (Summary), Ivan Briscoe |
| EN | The Lord's Resistance Army: In Search for a New Approach, Jort Hemmer and Niki Frencken |
| EN | Supporting SSR in the DRC: between a Rock and a Hard Place (Summary), Henri Boshoff, Sylvie More, Dylan Hendrickson, Thierry Vircoulon |
| EN | Growth and Equity in Fragile States (Summary), Rolf Maier |
Media
| ES | Las elecciones en Colombia: una perspectiva europea, Ivan Briscoe |
| ES | La Guerra contra las Drogas en el mundo andino: La Unión Europea Y El Tráfico de Drogas proveniente De Los Andes, Ivan Briscoe |
| ES | A cambiar de amigos, Ivan Briscoe |