Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel (ClimateLinks/ USAID)
Religiously-motivated violence and networks animated by crime risks growing in Mali. At the intersection of climate change and conflict, complex…
Mistrust and Imbalance: The Collapse of Intercommunal Relations and the Rise of Armed Community Mobilization on the Niger-Mali Border (Resolve Network)
Conflicts exist in the border zones of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. There has been violence against the authorities, traditional…
Sahel : Ce qui doit changer. Pour une nouvelle approche centrée sur les besoins des populations (Coalition citoyenne pour le Sahel)
La Coalition citoyenne, dans ce document, accentue que des interventions d’ordre militaire doivent être amendées par un certain nombre de…
Violent Extremist Offenders Rehabilitation and Reintegration in prison. A focus on the challenges and way forward in Mali (UNICRI)
Rehabilitation and reintegration measures of extremists can include education in general, vocational training, and psychological training, according to this article.…
The role of social media in Mali and its relation to violent extremism: A youth perspective (UNICRI, ICCT)
Social media platforms, as used not only by youth, but also violent extremists, can become a tool for worsening violence.…
Dogmatism or pragmatism? Violent extremism and gender in the central Sahel (international alert)
This report by ‘international alert’ focuses on gender roles and their consequences for the rise in violent extremism in the…
Pastoralism and Conflict: Tools for Prevention and Response in the Sudano-Sahel (Search for Common Ground)
This toolkit can help funding organizations, diplomatic representations, as well as practitioners, in finding guidance on how to design interventions…
Migration in the Sahel: Putting Human Rights and Cooperation on the Map (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale/ISPI)
Aurélia Donnard and Roberto Forin of ISPI write in this commentary that while classically, the lens of Europe with respect…
Lake Chad: Another Protracted Crisis in the Sahel or a Regional Exception? (Istituto Affari Internazionali/IAI)
Bernardo Venturi and Luca Barana write in this paper that the intersection of conflict and climate change is not the…
Central Sahel Crisis Response Plan 2021 (IOM UN Migration)
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger – the Central Sahel area – is subject to hightened occurrences of violence since 2012,…
Development and Security Challenges in the Sahel Region (Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group)
Rapporteur Ahmet Berat Çonkar deplores a “lack of coordination among various actors” and initiatives to resolve the ongoing conflicts in…
Entre espoir et désespoir : Adaptation pastorale au Burkina Faso (Clingendael)
Dans cette note de synthèse, qui constitue la traduction d’une analyse de l’Unité de Recherche sur les Conflits (CRU), Clingendael…