STRENGTHENING EARLY WARNING AND MOBILISING EARLY ACTION EVENT – Early Warning Roundtable: Conflict Risks and Electoral Tension in DRC

Unnamed Venue Brussels

Background Information: At the beginning of a year in which elections should be organised in the the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), political tensions have been rising. In January – nearly a year after the large-scale popular mobilisation that left dozens dead in Kinshasa – leading opposition figures, parties and civil society formalised a new […]

STRENGTHENING EARLY WARNING AND MOBILISING EARLY ACTION EVENT – Early Warning Roundtable: Post-Soviet Islamic Radicalisation and Jihadism: North Caucasus and Kyrgyzstan

Unnamed Venue Brussels

Background Islamist radicalisation is on the rise in the wider post-Soviet space. Several thousand radicalised individuals from the North Caucasus have joined the ranks of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. Central Asian republics also face this challenge with its attendant security risks, linked in part to the porous Afghan border. The challenges of violent […]