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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.​

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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Selected Publications

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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

Strategic Paper

24 Aug 2023

The Centrality of Putin’s Operational Code in the Decision to Intervene Directly in Syria

This study aims to explain the factors of direct Russian intervention in Syria, and to determine the role of the "security doctrine/ Operational Code" in Putin's general political operational code in making and implementing the decision to intervene. Based on a complex historical analytical descriptive approach...

Rana Barout

Situation Assessement

20 Jul 2023

Lebanon’s Presidential Crisis: Causes and Likely Outcomes

On 17 July 2023, Doha hosted the second meeting of the Five nation group on Lebanon with representatives from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France and the US, seeking a solution to the current political paralysis...

The Unit for Political Studies

Journal Articles

10 Jul 2023

The evolution of the Gulf states as humanitarian donors

Over the past two decades, the Gulf states have emerged as leading humanitarian actors both regionally and globally. This paper charts the evolution of four of the six Gulf states–Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, and Qatar–as humanitarian donors and actors.....

Ghassan Elkahlout, Sansom Milton
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Recent Op-eds

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26 Nov 2023
From Temporary Truce to Indefinite Ceasefire: A Role for Qatar

In the coming days, significant efforts should be devoted to transforming what remains a fragile truce, limited exchange of captives, and expansion of humanitarian relief, into a more stable ceasefire during which the civilian population of the Gaza Strip can receive sufficient volumes of desperately-needed essential supplies on a stable basis, and negotiations conducted for an end to this horrific war and a comprehensive exchange of captives....

Mouin Rabbani
22 Nov 2023
Israeli failures, US charades and a negotiated truce

The temporary ceasefire suggests Israel and the US are nowhere near ‘wiping out’ Hamas...

Mouin Rabbani
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