The data presented and analyzed by the study in three cases-Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone-offers intriguing and provocative look at the wide-ranging security needs of local communities and the uneven extent to which these are understood and responded to by...
Aid workers face an underreported sexual violence crisis These South Sudanese soldiers are among those accused of rape, torture, killing and looting during an attack on aid workers. AP Photo/Bullen CholDyan Mazurana, Tufts University The world’s approximately 450,000...
Adam Lichtenheld is a senior researcher for peace and conflict at Mercy Corps, where he leads research related to conflict prevention, mitigation, and resolution. He is also a research affiliate at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale...
The Center’s scope of work has expanded in 2009-10 while staying focused on the subject matter of marginal communities and crisis. We now have active research ongoing in 14 countries around the world, with some thirty projects linking research to policy and practice...
Researchers at the Feinstein International Center (FIC) at Tufts University have embarked on a major two-year research project on Humanitarian Action and Politics. This project builds upon and expands on the earlier research on Humanitarian Agenda 2015 -- Principles,...
This case study on Kenya, researched and written by Mark Bradbury and Michael Kleinman, is the first in a series of publications presenting the findings of a two-year FIC comparative study on the relationship between aid and security in northeastern Kenya and in five...
U.S. President Biden's nominee to lead the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 23, 2021. It appears she will be shortly confirmed. As Samantha Power prepares to lead USAID,...
Famines in the 21st century? It's not for lack of food Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University Famine killed nearly 75 million people in the 20th century, but had virtually disappeared in recent decades. Now, suddenly, it is back. In late February a famine was declared in...
Over the past 21 years, Dr. Stephen Tull has worked within the United Nations (UN) system, principally responsible for coordinating humanitarian action, managing operations, and developing policy. He has served the UN in Peacekeeping, Human Rights, Humanitarian...
Kimberly Howe and Dipali Mukhopadhyay have published Good Rebel Governance, which is available from Cambridge University Press. From the publisher: When a revolutionary uprising erupted in Syria during the spring of 2011, pockets of local resistance and the nascent...