Resources

How guns fall silent: analysing examples of relative success in integrated stabilisation

No shortcuts to security: Learning from responses to armed conflicts involving proscribed groups

The rise of counter-terrorism at the United Nations: two decades later

United Nations peace operations in complex environments: charting the right course

Five challenges the UN’s ‘sustaining peace’ agenda needs to address

As the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres releases his new Peacebuilding and sustaining peace report, Larry Attree argues that the UN must boldly address five big challenges constraining its peace efforts.

Shouldn't YOU be Countering Violent Extremism?

What lessons should be learnt from 15 years of counter-terror and stabilisation?

Head of Policy Larry Attree examines why the Wests approach to counter-terror and stabilisation are failing and lessons that can be drawn for the future.

Blown back: Lessons from counter-terror, stabilisation and statebuilding in Yemen

Since serious terror threats emerged in Yemen in 2000, the West has invested significantly in counter-terror and stabilisation.

Will the SDSR be strategic enough about conflict prevention?

Today, the UK Government is publishing its Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR). In this article, Saferworld’s Larry Attree argues that a key test of the policy will be the extent to which it balances immediate threats with a coherent strategy for preventing conflict in the long term.