The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) will be held in Istanbul May 22 – 24, 2016.  Hailed as a “once in a generation” opportunity, the WHS must come to grips with…

Elizabeth Stites gave a talk on remote management of humanitarian assistance at the Fletcher School on April 7th. The focus was on cross-border assistance delivered from Turkey into northern Syria….

Karen Jacobsen and Paula Armstrong discuss three main lessons from their report, “Cash Transfer Programming for Syrian Refugees” on the Cash Learning Partnership website. The three lessons they review are:…

Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond is a collection of contributions from outstanding experts in the field  that tackles the important and underexplored phenomenon of foreign fighters. Dallin, Dyan,…

On March 24, 2016, Roxani Krystalli published a piece in The Washington Post, discussing what conversations on armed groups and violence miss when they do not incorporate a gender analytical perspective….