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Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan: What’s Next?

Afghanistan is now an epic humanitarian catastrophe. And the US and other Western nations face a complex mix of humanitarian, strategic, and domestic political considerations in deciding how to respond to prevent the situation from deteriorating even further. Though the US has minimal leverage, it gains more by engagement than by disengagement. It would be better to act now before the situation deteriorates even further and makes it more difficult to negotiate channels of assistance.
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Dec 21, 2021
Paul Fishstein
Afghanistan, Taliban, humanitarian aid, international community
Humanitarian Crises

State Capture and Inequality

State capture is a type of systematic corruption whereby narrow interest groups take control of the institutions and processes that make public policy, excluding other parts of the public whose interests those institutions are supposed to serve. State capture is often associated with the first decade of transition in the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Eastern Europe. State capture has also spread to many countries that had once seemed to be resilient democracies or, in the case of transition countries, on a secure path toward democratization. This research paper goes in-depth on the mechanisms and impacts of state capture, impact on inequalities, and lessons learned from two case studies (Brazil and South Africa).

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Dec 17, 2021
Elizabeth David-Barrett
Brazil, South Africa
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Linkages between Inequality, Exclusion, and the Occurrence of Elections with Protest Activity Against Governments

An analysis of protest activity across 24 countries reveals that worsening metrics of inequality and exclusion are linked with higher rates of anti-government protests.

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Dec 17, 2021
Paul Von Chamier
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Annual Report 2020-2021

The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University is pleased to share our Annual Report 2020-2021, which covers the activities and achievements of CIC and the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies from October 2020 through September 2021.

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Dec 14, 2021
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Congo Research Group, Humanitarian Crises, Multilateral Reform, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis: 6 Opportunities to Strengthen Conflict Sensitivity across the Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding Nexus

The COVID-19 pandemic, and efforts to control its spread—including lockdowns, social distancing measures, and border closures—have led to unprecedented health, humanitarian, and socioeconomic shocks worldwide. These shocks, in turn, are raising the likelihood that risks for many forms of violent conflict—crime, armed conflict, violent extremism—may increase. Because it is crucial for the United Nations (UN) to adopt a conflict-sensitive lens in all relevant operations across the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding (HDP) nexus to prevent an increasingly volatile situation from deteriorating further, this policy brief makes recommendations for strengthening implementation of conflict sensitivity based on extensive interviews with UN staff across the nexus.

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Dec 21, 2021
Céline Monnier , Leah Zamore
Humanitarian Crises, Prevention and Peacebuilding

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