About

Our Work

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.

CHS is committed to producing high-quality research that is methodologically rigorous and objective. It aims to support evidence-based policies and practices while facilitating multi-track dialogues that bridge theory and practice. Through engagement with various actors at local, regional, and international levels, the Center seeks to enhance effective and informed responses to the challenges of conflict and humanitarian action.

Guiding Principles

Achieving Justice

Achieving justice is the foundation for successful conflict resolution and reconstruction processes.

Contextualisation

Challenges faced by the region must be contextualized historically and culturally towards critical and reflexive methodologies and policies.

Participation

Local communities and their cultural determinants have a critical role and should be integrated through meaningful participation and decision-making at all levels of recovery.

Collaboration

Greater collaboration between regional and international donors, recipient governments, agencies and academics is a pivotal factor in the successful implementation of solutions and proposed recommendations.

General Research Framework

General Research Framework

CHS is an interdisciplinary institute that cuts across the traditional academic categorization of Humanities, Social Sciences and Public Policy. Its scope includes, but is not limited to: conflict analysis and conflict resolution methods, coping mechanisms and forms of resilience, contemporary humanitarian responses, understanding conflict resolution and humanitarianism in Islam, examining post-conflict reconstruction and development, and exploring state fragility and political transitions.