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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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11 Nov 2025

New Issue Out | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

​The Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JPD) is delighted to announce the release of Volume 20, Issue 3, featuring original research and briefings that deepen our understanding of the nexus between peace, development, and humanitarian action across diverse contexts.
11 Nov 2025
New Issue Out | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

​The Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JPD) is delighted to announce the release of Volume 20, Issue 3, featuring original research and briefings that deepen our understanding of the nexus between peace, development, and humanitarian action across diverse contexts.
13 Oct 2025
Call for Papers: Hikama invites researchers to submit policy paper proposals for a special issue on post-war reconstruction in the Arab region

​The Hikama Journal of Public Administration and Public Policy, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CCHS)​, invites researchers, experts, and specialists interested in public administration and public policy to submit proposals for policy papers to be featured in a special issue on the topic: “Post-War Reconstruction Policies in the Arab World”.

Events

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2026

Call for papers: 2026 Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Conference

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Nov

2025

Crisis Leadership Program – Extend

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2025

Eastern Congo’s Protracted Crisis: Understanding the Political Roots of Conflict

Selected Publications

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Journal Articles

10 Nov 2025

Strengthening Domestic Resource Mobilisation in Post-Conflict Contexts: Integrating Public and Private Finance Sources

This article explores the role of domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) as a key element of recovery in post-conflict contexts. Drawing on conventionally state-led mechanisms – such as fiscal capacity, taxation, foreign direct investment (FDI), and....

Sansom Milton, Haythem Dellai

Journal Articles

9 Nov 2025

Counting the costs of war: A holistic, multi-level assessment of the impact of conflict on Sudan

This paper investigates the impact of Sudan's armed conflict, which began on 15 April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).....

Sansom Milton, Manoug Antaby, Haythem Dellai, Ahmed Idrees

Journal Articles

5 Nov 2025

Settler colonialism and the rhetoric of voluntary migration in Gaza

This article examines the forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as a core mechanism within Israel’s settler-colonial strategy.

Ghassan Elkahlout

Policy Briefs

5 Nov 2025

The Migration-Displacement-Resource Nexus in Afghanistan: Current Trends and Future Scenarios

This report centres on water as a prime example of the most immediate concerns. In Kabul, groundwater levels have fallen by 25 to 30 metres in the past decade, with UN agencies projecting that the capital's aquifers could be exhausted by 2030. Such a development would place more than six million residents at risk of displacement, and threaten the largest hub of economic activity in the country...

Hameed Hakimi

Policy Briefs

16 Oct 2025

Enhancing Aid Protection Mechanisms in the Gaza Crisis: A Post-Classical Approach to Reform

This policy brief focuses on Gaza's recent crisis to emphasize the importance of reforming fragile protection frameworks and replacing ineffective mechanisms embedded in the current humanitarian structure...

Mohammed Alsousi, Manoug Antaby
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Recent Op-eds

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6 Nov 2025
How Qatar Became a Conflict Mediation Heavyweight

​This briefing was originally published at World Politics Review​

Sansom Milton
14 Oct 2025
A Huge Airbase with a Small Country Attached to It

Israel and Bomber Harris’s Ghost

Juan Cole
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