Development partners The ISS is grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel ...

As armed groups shift away from direct confrontations with the military, commercial drones are increasingly used to carry out attacks.

This seminar launches new ISS research into the SIU's achievements and challenges, and how to secure its future success.

The National Dialogue announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa two weeks ago aims to foster unity in South Africa and find collective solutions to the country’s multifaceted challenges. The initiative, ...

Diplomatic relations between Algeria and Mali, dating back to the 1960s, have deteriorated sharply since April, following the downing of a Malian drone by the Algerian army near the Tinzaouaten border ...

Many police members do good work and many criminals end up in prisons as a result. We applaud these successes. Nevertheless, since 2012, we have become increasingly concerned by evidence that the ...

Links between violent extremism and illicit activities in Côte d’Ivoire This report examines how extremists infiltrate local economies to fund, recruit and replenish themselves. Along with attacks in ...

Community-wide change towards positive parenting To build safer communities, integrated interventions are needed to address factors promoting family violence. Positive parenting leads to happier, ...

Insecurity has risen sharply in the Sahel in recent months. Between late May and early June, major attacks claimed by Jama’at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater ...

Drivers of ethnic conflict in contemporary Ethiopia Although ethnic-based conflicts are not new, their scale and intensity in a short space of time has been alarming. Violent ethnic conflicts have ...

In July 2021, around 1 000 personnel from the Rwanda Defence Force and Rwanda National Police arrived in the terrorist-hit Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado. The province faced a severe threat from ...

Since the outbreak of the crisis in Mali in 2012, the origin of the many weapons circulating in the area has generated speculation. Libya was at one point the main source of arms. Weapons ...