Resources

Playing with matches? UK security assistance and its conflict risks

'Persistent Engagement', Persistent Risk: The impact of UK security assistance on rights and peace

How can the UK help prevent great power competition from escalating into conflict?

To contribute to the policy debates around the Integrated Review, this ‘written roundtable’ brings together five experts to assess how to avoid conflict in an era of great and regional power competition.

Saferworld’s Warpod episode 7: Special Forces, private military security contractors and remembrance

In this episode of the Warpod we combine two interviews. In the first we speak to Samantha Crompvoets from the research company, Rapid Context and discuss what the UK can learn from the Brereton inquiry into abuses by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. In the second we speak to Malte Riemann and Norma Rossi, from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and discuss how the increased use of private military contractors has impacted society.

On South Sudan’s 10th Anniversary, NGOs call for sustained assistance and safe access for aid workers

As South Sudan marks its 10th anniversary, the world’s youngest nation faces severe challenges of food insecurity, violent conflict, and long-term humanitarian and development needs.

Joint Conciliation Resources, International Alert and Saferworld statement on the impact of UK aid cuts on peacebuilding efforts and our partners around the world

The recent cuts to UK aid have impacted many conflict-affected parts of the world, and were abrupt, seemingly arbitrary, and left little to no scope for conflict sensitivity in their implementation.

Saferworld's Warpod episode 4: The Integrated Review and Labour’s Foreign Policy Review

The fourth episode of Warpod discusses the UK's Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, including reflecting on the gap between rhetoric and reality on conflict and atrocity prevention. 

Protecting civic space and the right to peaceful protest in the UK

A statement from Saferworld urging the UK government to review its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

Saferworld statement on Lord Frank Judd

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of Lord Frank Judd, a former Saferworld trustee who died this weekend.