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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Established in 2016, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) is an independent research center that generates scholarship and engages in policy and practice on conflict mediation, humanitarian action, and post-conflict recovery in the Arab world and beyond.​

Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Established in 2016, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) is an independent research center that generates scholarship and engages in policy and practice on conflict mediation, humanitarian action, and post-conflict recovery in the Arab world and beyond.​

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7 Mar 2024

A Ground-Breaking Workshop on the Development of Arab Humanitarian Mechanisms

On the 28th of February 2024, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in close collaboration with the Office of the Special Envoy of the Arab League Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, H.E. Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al Thani, successfully convened a ground-breaking workshop titled: "Developing a Comprehensive, Arab Mechanism for Humanitarian Affairs" within the League of Arab States or as an affiliated initiative....
7 Mar 2024
A Ground-Breaking Workshop on the Development of Arab Humanitarian Mechanisms

On the 28th of February 2024, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), in close collaboration with the Office of the Special Envoy of the Arab League Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, H.E. Sheikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al Thani, successfully convened a ground-breaking workshop titled: "Developing a Comprehensive, Arab Mechanism for Humanitarian Affairs" within the League of Arab States or as an affiliated initiative....
3 Mar 2024
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in the Republic of Somalia delivers a lecture on Rebuilding a Democratic State

The Center for Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) held a public lecture on Monday, February 26, 2024, at 18:00 Doha time, featuring His Excellency Mr. Hassan Mo'allin Mohamud, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in the Republic of Somalia...

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The UNRWA after Six Months of War in Gaza

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Rebuilding a Democratic State: The Experience of the Third Somali Republic

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New Frontiers in Computational Global Affairs

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Journal Articles

4 Mar 2024

Shrinking reconstruction space in the Gaza Strip: rebuilding after the 2021 and 2022 wars

The paper explores continuities and discontinuities in the factors influencing reconstruction outcomes in Gaza, offering a nuanced understanding of how the changing context has impacted rebuilding efforts. It examines the implications of these findings for future reconstruction initiatives in Gaza and similar conflict-affected regions, providing insights into the complex interplay of financial, political, and logistical challenges in post-conflict reconstruction....

Sansom Milton, Ghassan Elkahlout, Saba Attallah

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26 Jan 2024

Gaza Apocalypse

The October War also set another dynamic in motion. Similarly empowered by post-1967 triumphalism, and after 1973 spurred into action by fears Israel would be compelled to embrace the "land for peace" formula to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, messianic Zionist movements such as Gush Emunim ("Bloc of the Faithful"), along with ultra-nationalist proponents of Greater Israel, launched a concerted campaign to expand and consolidate the Israeli presence in the occupied Arab territories...

Mouin Rabbani

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15 Jan 2024

The Myth of Gaza's Reconstruction: The Rise and Fall of Reconstruction Space Under the Israeli Siege

The Gaza Strip was recently catapulted to international headlines when the Israeli security cabinet declared a "state of war," preventing water, electricity, fuel, and food supplies from reaching the already besieged territory, two days after the "Al-Aqsa Flood operation" launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas," on October 7, 2023....

Wadee Al-Arabeed

Journal Articles

16 Oct 2023

Qatar's evolving role in conflict mediation

This article analyses the evolution of mediation strategy, utilizing case studies of Qatar's mediation in Afghanistan, Chad, and Libya through a framework focusing on results, modality, acceptability and reception. The analysis identifies key comparative findings on Qatar's post-2020 renewed role in conflict mediation...

Sansom Milton, Ghassan Elkahlout, Sana Tariq

Journal Articles

11 Oct 2023

The Sudanese imbroglio

Sudan, a country strategically located on the Red Sea, has become the site of an internationalised violent internal conflict. The fighting, which started on April 15, pitting the paramilitary Rapid Response Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese Army, has drawn a host of outside actors driven by conflicting interests....

Khalil Osman
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3 Feb 2024
Gaza and the dilemmas of genocide scholars

It is interesting that it was Israeli leaders and their allies in Washington who first brought the term "genocide" into the Gaza conflict. In the aftermath of Hamas's attack on October 7, they repeatedly brought up references to the Holocaust....

Abdelwahab El Affendi
2 Feb 2024
Israel's war on Gaza has upended the region. What comes next?

The first 100 days of the Gaza war have changed the face of the Middle East. On 7 October, Israel's pretensions of omnipotence, omniscience, invincibility and invulnerability were irrevocably shattered. ...

Mouin Rabbani, Ghassan Elkahlout, Tamer Qarmout, Amena El Ashkar, Mohammad Alhamawi, Sansom Milton
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