Detailed Crisis Group reports showcase our best take on how to solve a deadly conflict or geopolitical crisis, but they represent only part of our method. Our credibility and impact is rooted in field research that is an interactive process. Our analysts travel to war zones and remote crisis regions where they meet a uniquely wide spectrum of people, from top officials to the media, and from civil society activists to front line commanders. Our colleagues are not just asking questions, they are sharing information, testing ideas, and advocating recommendations that can prevent the outbreak of war or advance the cause of peace. “Our Journeys” are first-person narratives that give behind the scenes access to this essential part of our work.
Cyclic violence has raged in the eastern DRC for almost 30 years. Crisis Group experts Onesphore Sematumba and Nicolas Delaunay visited Beni, in North Kivu, shortly after Uganda launched a military operation against the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist insurgency based in the region.
The future of Afghanistan remains deeply uncertain – mostly because the Taliban have not decided what path they will chart for their new government, as Crisis Group expert Graeme Smith discovered in Kabul.
Ladakh, a barren, frigid plateau facing Tibet, is one of India’s most vulnerable spots in its decades-old border dispute with China. In the winter months, as Crisis Group expert Praveen Donthi found, it is also one of the least hospitable places on earth.
While warning signs of Lebanon’s economic meltdown have been apparent for some time, as Crisis Group expert Heiko Wimmen writes, it is still shocking just how close things are to falling apart.
Just before major battles in northern Yemen and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crisis Group expert Peter Salisbury travelled to Marib, the government’s last stronghold. He found a region coping well with massive displacement but fearing a settlement that would favour the advancing Huthis.
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