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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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Policy Briefs

28 Dec 2022

Unblocking the Pathway to Transition in Sudan

On 5 December, the Framework Agreement was signed between key actors in the Sudanese political landscape. It comes following a 14-month period of turbulent politics since the removal of the previous civilian administration in October 2021. The agreement is an important step towards placing Sudan back on track towards a military-to-civilian political transition. This Policy Briefing provides a brief contextualisation of the political crisis in Sudan over the past year and provides an analysis of the December 2022 Framework Agreement.

Ghassan Elkahlout, Sansom Milton

Books

10 Nov 2022

Forced Migration in the Arab Countries

The ACRPS has published Forced Migration in the Arab Countries, by multiple authors and edited by Ghassan Elkahlout. The book (672 pp.) includes a bibliography and general index...

Ghassan Elkahlout

Policy Briefs

13 Oct 2022

Libya's Conflict Stalemate:Towards a multitrack approach to stability and peace

At the UN General Assembly in September 2022, HH the Emir stated that: The positive developments that Libya had witnessed during the past year give rise to cautious optimism. The ceasefire and convening the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, and the election of representatives of the interim executive authority and winning a vote of confidence of the House of Representatives by the National Unity Interim Government...

Sansom Milton, Abdulrauf El-geroshi

Journal Articles

8 Oct 2022

Whose autonomy? Conceptualising 'colonial extraterritorial autonomy' in the occupied Palestinian territories

he notion of ‘Palestinian autonomy’ has occupied a central position in Israel’s post-1967 strategic planning in occupied Palestinian territories.....

Tariq Dana, Ali Jarbawi

Policy Reports

20 Sep 2022

The Israeli War on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Unity of the Arenas Battle and its Strategic Implications

On 5 August 2022, four days after a state of alert was declared in the settlements of the Gaza envelope, Israel launched a war on the Gaza Strip, ostensibly to thwart a large-scale attack against civilians, according to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid....

Wadee Al-Arabeed, Majd Abuamer
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22 Mar 2023
Consociationalism vs "Democratic Sustainability" in Iraq

Twenty years after the US-led invasion that toppled the ruthlessly dictatorial Saddam Hussein regime, the record of democratization in Iraq remains a mixed bag. This blog briefly considers how Iraq fares when it comes democratic sustainability, the adaptations, self-corrections,.....

Khalil Osman
13 Mar 2023
We should condemn Russian crimes in Ukraine, but what about the crimes committed in Iraq?

Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi on March 2nd, he told him in no uncertain terms, "End this war of aggression."....

Juan Cole
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