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Syria: the pace quickens - but towards what?

A blog by our Secretary General

A blog by our Director of Programmes

Welcome news, apparently, in Obama's announcement today to postpone his decision about how to respond to the chemical attack in Damascus. Because there is no sense in firing a barrage of missiles as a response to the use of chemicals. Perhaps Obama's reason was his not wanting to be in Russia next week during or just after a US-led...

Nagorny Karabakh

20 years of civil peacebuilding

International Alert has launched a new report on the successes and challenges of 20 years of civil peacebuilding in the Nagorny Karabakh conflict context. The report, entitled Advancing the prospects for peace: 20 years of civil peacebuilding in the context of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, reflects the findings of five experts from different...

Oil, business and borders

The unblended Ugandan cocktail

During the past three months, International Alert has been working with local partners in Uganda to understand the challenges facing local communities in the country’s fledgling oil region. Many questions have been asked since commercially-viable quantities of oil were discovered in the western part of Uganda in the mid-2000s. Among them,...

Community resilience and the environment

Vulnerability to environmental risks and effects in Nepal and Pakistan

This month International Alert published an article in the journal of Environment and Natural Resources Research on the vulnerability of communities in Nepal and Pakistan to environmental risks, and how these risks affect community resilience. Nepal and Pakistan face a triple challenge of political instability, weak governance and vulnerability...