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Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies

The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) is one of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Programs. It was established in 2016. The Center focuses on producing in-depth research, building specialized capacities, and guiding policies aimed at promoting peace and resolving conflicts through diverse and multi-track dialogues. The Center aspires to become one of the leading research institutions in the Global South, dedicated to addressing issues of conflict and humanitarian response from a critical and forward-looking perspective.

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26 Jan 2025

Concluding the First Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Conference

​On January 23, 2025, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in partnership with the Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action (CMHA) Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Network for Humanitarian Action (NOHA), and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, concluded the inaugural Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Conference. This event brought together researchers, academics, and practitioners from around the world to engage in critical discussions on pressing issues in conflict studies and humanitarian action.

26 Jan 2025
Concluding the First Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Conference

​On January 23, 2025, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in partnership with the Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action (CMHA) Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Network for Humanitarian Action (NOHA), and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, concluded the inaugural Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Conference. This event brought together researchers, academics, and practitioners from around the world to engage in critical discussions on pressing issues in conflict studies and humanitarian action.

16 Jan 2025
CHS Awarded Major QNRF Grant for Groundbreaking Gaza Reconstruction Study

The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) is pleased to announce the award of a three-year research project from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), entitled "Re-thinking the 'Day After': Post-war Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip."

Events

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2025

Humanitarian Leadership Conference: Transformative Leadership in Times of Polycrisis

26

Feb

2025

South-South Collaborations in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Responses to Conflict and Displacement

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Feb

2025

Unprecedented Terrains: Deliberating US Policy on Afghanistan under the new Trump Administration and Considering Evolving Regional Dynamics

Selected Publications

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Books

31 Dec 2024

Gaza’s Cycle of Destruction and Rebuilding: Understanding the Actors, Dynamics, and Responses

Gaza's Cycle of Destruction: Understanding the Actors, Dynamics, and Responses

Ghassan Elkahlout

Policy Briefs

26 Dec 2024

Governance Ecosystem and Institutions in Afghanistan post-2021: Dynamics, Capacities, and Challenges

​This Policy Brief has been produced by the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS). The document is produced under the the Afghanistan Research and Policy Initiative (ARPI)...

Hameed Hakimi

Strategic Paper

6 Oct 2024

Ecocide as Genocide: A Human Security Approach to “Utter Annihilation” in Gaza

As the death toll mounts in the Gaza Strip, rigorous analysis of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, using additional tools to the classic methods of conflict analysis, grows more urgent by the day. As of mid-May 2024, over 15,500 children had been confirmed killed, and by June 2024 the total death toll was already likely to have reached or surpassed 186,000 direct and indirect deaths...

Laurent Lambert

Book Review

19 Sep 2024

Book Review: Jeffrey A. Hart - Essays on the History and Politics of the Internet

In his Essays on the History and Politics of the Internet: Cyberpolitics, Jeffrey A. Hart sets out to provide a comprehensive, yet concise, primer on the history and impact of the Internet for specialists and non-specialists alike. A political scientist by profession, Hart's narrative is preoccupied with the implications of the Internet's development and rise to ubiquity for the distribution of power in society and internationally….

Khalil Osman

Journal Articles

9 Aug 2024

Examining Qatari humanitarian diplomacy: key features, challenges and prospects

In recent years, Qatar has emerged as a key actor in humanitarian diplomacy (HD), which has received limited academic attention. This paper provides an analysis of Qatar's engagement with HD, drawing on a literature review and extensive interviews with officials and humanitarian workers in Qatar, observations of state activities and humanitarian agencies, and personal interviews with international humanitarian aid workers...

Ghassan Elkahlout, Mona Hedaya
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Recent Op-eds

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23 Mar 2025
How Did We Get Here?

The op-ed discusses the escalation of violence in Gaza following Israel's rejection of a ceasefire agreement and the failure of U.S. diplomatic efforts to mediate. It portrays Israel's leadership as intent on avoiding a formal cessation of hostilities to maintain power and protect their interests, while the U.S. appears complicit in enabling these actions...

Mouin Rabbani
10 Feb 2025
Localisation is not Decolonisation. Here is what we need to be cautious of

Recently, the concept of localisation has been used to refer to a wide range of issues, most notably decolonisation. Within the development and humanitarian sector, this has become a buzzword, as Themrise Khan writes, serving as a way to shift narratives. Moosavi (2020) refers to this as the "decolonial bandwagon of intellectual decolonisation," characterised by Northern-centrism. This arises from the tendency of scholarship to ignore decolonial scholars from the Global South, thereby enacting intellectual colonisation instead of dismantling it...

Amjad Mohamed Saleem
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