Peacemaking After Ukraine: A Look at Nagorno-Karabakh and Libya
How much have the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reverberated across other warzones? Moscow is involved in several of the world’s conflicts, and the breakdown of relations between Russia and ...
10 Kesä 20221h 24min
Who is Rodolfo Hernández, Colombia’s “TikTok King”, and Can He Win the Presidency?
Colombians decisively rejected mainstream political parties in the first round of their presidential election last week, with two anti-establishment candidates advancing to the run-off on 19 June. Gus...
3 Kesä 20221h 2min
New President in Somalia, New Opportunity for Reconciliation
On 15 May, Somali lawmakers voted in new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. The peaceful vote and transfer of power drew a line under what had been a fraught, long-delayed and sometimes violent electora...
27 Touko 20221h 8min
Shades of Jihad in Syria
On 3 February, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that American special forces had killed the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), Abdullah Qardash, in a house where he was hiding out in Idlib province...
20 Touko 20221h 13min
A Perilous Free-for-all in the Eastern DR Congo?
Neighbouring states are fighting again in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. In November 2021, Tshisekedi invited Ugandan units to cross into the DRC’s North Kivu province in pursuit of the ISI...
13 Touko 202251min
Taliban Rule in Afghanistan
It’s been almost nine months since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. What for years had been the world’s deadliest war is mostly over and the country is suffering considerably less violence, th...
6 Touko 20221h 5min
Is the Danger of a NATO-Russia War Growing?
Ukraine’s war has entered a new phase, with Russia launching a major offensive in the east and south. This follows Moscow pulling back its forces from around Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, after fierce Ukra...
29 Huhti 202243min
European Security and France’s Election in the Shadow of Russia’s War in Ukraine
This week on Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood is joined by Gérard Araud, Crisis Group Trustee, distinguished French diplomat and former ambassador to both the UN and the U.S., to look at the Western res...
22 Huhti 20221h 6min
