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"Crisis Response Council is one of the most pioneering and adaptive mediation platforms I have engaged with. Through convening leading practitioners, CRC is able to generate valuable insights, cutting edge analysis and forward-looking recommendations for the most complex policy dilemmas."
Ms. Dareen Khalifa. Senior Analyst. International Crisis Group.
Mobilising
expertise across disciplines
Crisis Response is dedicated to addressing global crises through a full-spectrum approach that harnesses and mobilises expertise across disciplines.
Building networks
Crisis Response has an all-encompassing network of decision-makers, scholars and influencers who provide Crisis Response with a strategic community that underpins its attempts to achieve lasting solutions to global crises.
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment
NATO
American Enterprise Institute
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State
American University of Beirut
Princeton University
Former UK Minister of State
Council on Foreign Relations
London School of Economics
Carnegie Corporation
German Marshall Fund
New York Times
RAND Corporation
DCAF
Iraqi Government
International Crisis Group
Brookings Institution
Atlantic Council
New America Foundation
Waseda University
Kent University
SWP
Columbia University
Harvard University
European Union
German Marshall Fund
Columbia University
Washington Institute
Russian International Affairs Council
European Union
East West Institute
Ankara Institute
CSIS
Al Arabiya English
Institute for the Study of War
New America
Iraqi Government
Robert Bosch Academy
Kurdistan Regional Government
Kurdistan Regional Government
United Nations
International Crisis Group
United States Institute for Peace
Middle East Institute
Hudson Institute
Tehran University
Washington Institute
Hikma Movement, Iraq
Brookings Institution
Our Focus
Armed Conflict
COVID-19 will most likely be a conflict-multiplier as belligerents move to intensify contestation over territories and resources, which will now include an expanded focus on securing access to vital medical supplies. The crisis is an opportunity to reinforce their reputations and consolidate their positions in the process. In other words, COVID-19 will not prompt a rallying call for a lasting peace. It is in conflict-stricken countries where the impact of the pandemic will be the most acute. Political elites, militias, and external powers engaged in proxy wars have fought fiercely over resources and territory. Crisis Response convenes policymakers to develop policies and analysis that develop conflict mitigation mechanisms.
Good Governance
Engaging local actors, civil-society and humanitarian organisations to secure sustainable development, human security and economic development is central to building inclusive and sustainable governance. Crisis Response is focused on addressing leading causes of economic and social inequality to help communities prosper and bridge the gap between the disenfranchised and decision-makers, particularly the youth and vulnerbale communities, including women and religious minorities. Crisis Response places a focus on building more accountable governing structures that enable pathways for peace-building, reconciliation and security sector reform.
Track II
Working through its Proxy Wars Initiative, Crisis Response convenes Track II dialogues in the Middle East and North Africa. Over the past two-years, it has convened workshops and roundtables in the Middle East, Europe and in the United States, where it has drawn on its expansive network of decision-makers, former officials, scholars and civil-society activists to develop conflict mitigation proposals and reconciliation frameworks focused on Libya, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, in addition to policy proposals that curtail the potential for conflict relapse and constrain the second order effects of wars to secure lasting stability and sustainable governance.
Climate Change
Climate change will exacerbate the socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental conditions that enable conflicts and violent instability. According to experts, a quarter of the world’s people face extreme water shortages that are fueling conflict, social unrest and migration. The influence of climate on conflicts will increase more than five times, leaping to a 26% chance of a substantial increase in conflict risk in the near future. Crisis Response develops regional collaboration and confidence-building measures aimed at forestalling climate related conflict and tumult, producing data and analysis that help government and non-government organisations integrate climate-focused policies and ideas into their decision-making processes and policy proposals.
"Our goal is to convene the most diverse and robust network of decision-makers, practitioners and scholars from across the globe to produce cutting-edge analysis and provide immediate policy proposals that can achieve lasting solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time."
Dr. Ranj Alaaldin. Director, Crisis Response Council