Analysis
Regional Cooperation in the Great Lakes Region
Regional trade and energy projects were meant to knit the Great Lakes together. Cooperation survives war, but peace has to be designed in.
Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes: Reports and Analysis
Analysis of conflict and peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes region: Burundi, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, South Kivu, Lake Albert and the regional cooperation that binds them. Reports draw on field studies and the public record of the EU-funded peacebuilding research of 2008 to 2012.
Security & Justice
Public Security and Justice After Conflict
Field research from eight conflict-affected countries on why security and justice must be delivered as public services, not military projects.
Security & Justice
Transitional Justice and Security System Reform
Why vetting, oversight and accountability for past abuse decide whether post-conflict security institutions earn public trust.
Analysis
Peacebuilding in Burundi and the Great Lakes
What the Arusha settlement, power-sharing and the 2015 crisis reveal about building peace in Burundi and the wider Great Lakes region.
Analysis
The Conflict in Eastern DRC: Actors, Causes and Peace Efforts
Three decades of war in eastern Congo run on three engines: a regional rivalry born in 1994, a mineral war economy, and a state too hollow to govern its east.
Publications
Justice-Sensitive Security System Reform in the DRC
The DRC built its army and police from unvetted belligerents. Two decades of reform changed little, because impunity, not capacity, is the core problem.
Analysis
Peacebuilding Around Lake Albert
Fish, oil and a disputed border: why the lake between Uganda and the DRC is both the flashpoint and the best entry point for peace.
Security & Justice
Responding to People’s Security Needs
Why donor security programmes keep missing the threats people actually face, and the seven implementation gaps behind the failure.
Gender & Peacebuilding
Gender and Peacebuilding: What the Evidence Shows
A decade after UNSCR 1325, field research from Burundi, Liberia and Nepal shows where gender-sensitive peacebuilding delivers and where it stalls.
Analysis
North and South Kivu: Anatomy of a Protracted Conflict
Land, citizenship, minerals and an absent state: why every Congolese rebellion since 1996 has started in, or come home to, the Kivu provinces.