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Conflict and Fragility

Conflict and Fragility

Horn of Africa

29 Mar 2024 - 09:21
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CRU’s Horn of Africa Programme focuses on how informality – and specifically informal economies – can be harnessed to strengthen stabilisation strategies in the region.

Background

Countries in the Horn of Africa share a key characteristic that determines both their vulnerability and resilience in the face of violent conflict: the formal politics of boundaries, sovereign state, formal institutions and budgets coexist with the oftentimes even more important informal bargaining over resources and power that decides upon stability and development, or the lack thereof, in the region. This research programme focuses on how and under what conditions informality – and specifically informal economies, particularly but not exclusively with regard to migrants and smuggling networks – actually thwarts or promotes the consolidation of stable and inclusive societies, and to what extend international efforts in the region contribute to this dynamic.

Highlights

Conflict and Fragility

Rethinking responses to pastoralism-related conflicts

06 Aug 2021 - 11:42

Conflict and Fragility

The West’s struggle in Sudan

20 Jul 2022 - 10:00

Conflict and Fragility

The UAE and China in the Horn of Africa

24 Jun 2021 - 17:23

Conflict and Fragility

The ethnicization of Ethiopia’s informal sector

23 Feb 2021 - 14:43

Conflict and Fragility

‘Designed in Ethiopia’ and ‘Made in China’

08 Feb 2021 - 12:32

Conflict and Fragility

The struggle over political finance in Ethiopia’s transition

03 Feb 2021 - 10:12

Publications
Conflict and Fragility
Dubai Ports World as the UAE Foreign Policy Tool
18 Feb 2020 - 11:42
Conflict and Fragility
Consolidating Sudan’s transition
03 Feb 2020 - 11:32
Conflict and Fragility
Transnational capital in Somalia
01 Jul 2019 - 16:59
Conflict and Fragility
Turkey in the Horn of Africa
27 May 2019 - 14:00
Conflict and Fragility
How the US lost: China's growing foothold in Africa
13 Jun 2018 - 11:41
Conflict and Fragility
The political economy of Gulf investments in the Horn of Africa
26 Apr 2018 - 14:32
Conflict and Fragility
Podcast: China's role in the Horn of Africa
20 Apr 2018 - 12:18
Conflict and Fragility
China and the EU in the Horn of Africa
09 Apr 2018 - 16:56
Conflict and Fragility
Monitoring aid implementation in conflict situations
26 Sep 2018 - 09:24
Conflict and Fragility
Ports & Power: the securitisation of port politics
23 May 2018 - 16:27
Conflict and Fragility
Eye of the Storm: Ethiopia Amid Middle Eastern Conflict
31 Oct 2017 - 10:13
Conflict and Fragility
Unrest in Ethiopia: plus ça change?
21 Apr 2017 - 10:05
Conflict and Fragility
Businesses in conflict; growing or coping?
25 Aug 2016 - 11:42
Conflict and Fragility
Conflict sensitivity: taking it to the next level
05 Jul 2016 - 14:23
Conflict and Fragility
Socio-economic development policies in fragile settings
06 Nov 2014 - 17:20
Conflict and Fragility
Shifting the donor narrative in South Sudan
23 Jun 2015 - 09:52
Conflict and Fragility
South Sudan: a crisis of sovereignty
03 Apr 2014 - 10:11
Conflict and Fragility
Internal and external dilemmas of peacebuilding in Africa
23 Jan 2014 - 15:00
Conflict and Fragility
Terror strikes Nairobi cutting across borders
25 Sep 2013 - 11:06
Conflict and Fragility
The UN Mission in South Sudan & its civilian protection strategy
31 Jan 2013 - 13:28
Conflict and Fragility
South Sudan's emergency state
14 Dec 2012 - 11:39
Conflict and Fragility
Beyond good versus evil: fighting Somalia's perpetual war
12 Oct 2011 - 12:03
Conflict and Fragility
Southern Sudan's Self-Determination Referendum - Two narratives
15 Feb 2011 - 15:16
Conflict and Fragility
The Lord's Resistance Army: In Search for a New Approach
01 Jul 2010 - 11:51
Conflict and Fragility
Southern Sudan: the new kid on the block?
01 Apr 2010 - 12:31
Conflict and Fragility
Ticking the box: elections in Sudan
06 Sep 2009 - 17:51
Conflict and Fragility
The Lord's Resistance Army: tackling a regional spoiler
24 Dec 2008 - 11:08
Conflict and Fragility
The Netherlands and its Government Approach on Fragile States
21 May 2007 - 08:30
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Jos Meester
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Anette Hoffmann
Senior Research Fellow
Guido Lanfranchi
Research Fellow
Moneera Yassien
Junior Researcher