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The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) is now welcoming research papers for the Conference on Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. The conference is co-organised with the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Carter School at George Mason University, and the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA). The conference will be hosted in Doha, Qatar, on 22 and 23 January 2025.

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Laurent Lambert

As the death toll mounts in the Gaza Strip, rigorous analysis of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, using additional tools to the classic methods of conflict analysis, grows more urgent by the day. As of mid-May 2024, over 15,500 children had been confirmed killed, and by June 2024 the total death toll was already likely to have reached or surpassed 186,000 direct and indirect deaths...

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS), the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), and the Joint UNDP-DPPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention jointly organized the Doha Workshop on Supporting National Prevention Efforts from January 12 to January 14, 2025, at the Mondrian hotel in Doha, Qatar. This landmark event gathered high-level policymakers, UN Peace and Development Advisors (PDAs), and experts from around the globe to advance innovative approaches to national conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

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Sultan Barakat

The collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on August 15th, 2021 and the ensuing images broadcast out of Kabul – Taliban soldiers in the Presidential Palace and scenes of desperation at Hamad Karzai International Airport – shocked the world with the speed at which the country hurtled towards chaos. In the month since, Afghanistan has become enveloped with a series of political, security, and humanitarian crises that are threatening...

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Ibrahim Fraihat

The uprisings connected to the Arab Spring have thus far failed to produce social change. The dynamics of these uprisings instead generated a number of trends that are likely to continue to destabilise the Arab world and prevent peace and development....

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Sultan Barakat

Strait Talk host Ali Mustafa speaks to Sultan Barakat, Conflict and Humanitarian Studies Director at Doha Institute.

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Sultan Barakat

In this episode, Professor Barakat outlines how the combination of domestic conflict drivers and external, geopolitical developments in the region triggered the escalation into an all-out civil war. He also questions the level of control Saudi Arabia and its allies hold over the country.

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Sultan Barakat

Jamal Khashoggi was a critic of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The journalist was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul almost four months ago. But his body or remains have never been recovered, and the murder case remains unresolved. Turkey's not satisfied by the Saudis' own investigations and wants a full international inquiry. What it’s got is an independent investigation led by the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Agnes Callamard and her team are in Turkey for a week-long mission. She also wants to visit Saudi Arabia. But will this independent international inquiry make any difference anyway? Can Saudi Arabia be held to account?

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Sultan Barakat

​The downing of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 in which 176 people were killed is indeed a human tragedy of immense proportions. Its fallout is that much more complicated as it comes amid a totally unnecessary crisis...

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Ali Al-Za'tari

Under UN auspices in Tunisia, contenders in Libya have agreed to hold elections in December 2012 - as if Libyans are condemned to despair in the endless rerun of a stale and ludicrous drama. However, the previous Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General is optimistic about the achievements of the UN Libyan delegation's Chargé d'Affairs, his former deputy...