November 2022 JALEL HARCHAOUI تحميل الملخص التنفيذي Download the Executive Summary & Main Findings Dowload the full report Executive Summary In 2021, Libya’s U.N.-backed election
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Fighting against Peace in Libya
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar launched the troops of the self-proclaimed “Libyan National Army” on Tripoli, the Libyan capital where the Government of National Unity
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Libya’s Territorial and Institutional Division
These documents were first designed as part of Xavier Guignard‘s interview with Seif Eddine Trabelsi, Fighting against Peace in Libya.
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The Return of the State and Inter-Militia Competition in Northern Iraq
In the wake of the end of the war against Islamic State (IS), the Iraqi state redeployed in the north of Iraq in October 2017.
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Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq
These maps were designed to illustrate Arthur Quesnay and Robin Beaumont’s article, The Return of the State and Intermilitia Competition in Northern Iraq
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The Dynamics of Peace Process in Tajikistan
These maps were designed by Xavier Houdoy and Nicolas Ressler for Noria. They were based on data gathered by Jan Tomek in 2016. To use these maps from Noria’s website, please provide their title along with Noria’s name and the URL of the webpage.
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The Dynamics of the Peace Process in Tajikistan: Power-Sharing and the Unravelling of the post-Civil War Status Quo
Parts of Central Asia – a region where authoritarian rule has been the norm since the end of the Soviet Union – are liberalising, albeit
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When Women Take Part in the Rebellion: the Ex-Fighters from Ivory Coast
This article illustrates the complexity of women’s engagement in armed groups, through the example of women involved in the rebellion in Ivory Coast between 2002 and 2011. It provides an analysis of the trajectories of women enrolled in the conflict in Ivory Coast in various regions and during various periods of the rebellion. How were women involved in the conflict in Ivory Coast? What motives led them to become involved in the rebellion and, once they had become involved, what activities did they engage in? How might one compare their experience in the rebellion to that of men?
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From Arms to Politics: The New Struggle of the Tamil Diaspora
During the Sri Lankan civil war, the Tamil diaspora played a key role providing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with the funds necessary
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The Political Stakes of the Battle for Mosul
The battle for Mosul is the final episode of the recapture of Iraq. It is the last act of a divided political and military landscape
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Is Colombia Finally Heading Toward a Peace Agreement?
The following series conveys the vastness of the Colombian conflict’s infinite sadness. A fifty year old war that polluted with violence and displacement, regardless of
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Is Colombia Finally Heading Toward a Peace Agreement?
On October 2nd, 2016, the Colombian people voted “No” in the referendum to ratify the peace agreement between the State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, created in 1964), which had been signed in an atmosphere of great optimism on the 26th September in Cartagena.
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The strategy of Jabhat Al-Nusra / Jabhat Fath Al-Sham in regarding the truces in Syria
Since the beginning of 2016, the international community has been striving to ensure that the local and national truces in Syria are respected. Jabhat al-Nusra
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Iraq from the Ground
Go further, and read out full length article: Iraq from the Ground: Two Tears after the Fall of Mosul
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Shiite nationalism? Sistani, Present in Absence
This is an extended version of an article previously published, in French and in Arabic, by Orient XXI. It does not take into account recent
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The ICC and the Crime of Genocide: Maneuvering the Status of Minority in Darfur
The International Criminal Court (hereafter the ICC) first indicted the Sudanese head of State, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir, in March 2009 for the crimes committed
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The Militia System in Kunduz
To contain the impact of the withdrawal of international forces[note]Most of the analysis here derives from the authors’ fieldwork in Kunduz in April 2014 and
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Yarmouk: a War of All Against All
“Yarmouk has been living under siege for over 650 days; water and electricity have been cut for over 200 days… Yarmouk’s suffering is more than
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El México Guerrero: Ayotzinapa’s Defiant Struggle for Justice
On the night of September 26th, 2014, in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, 43 students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of
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The Sunni Revolution and the Outburst of Community Divisions in Iraq
This analysis is based on fieldwork conducted in Northern Iraq ovef the course of Fall 2014, with the support of the WAFAW program of the
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Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
The meaning of the various dynamics at work in today’s Iraq and Syria lies in their interactions. This poses a twofold challenge to the cartographers:
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Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
This article intends only, in line with its short length, to offer areas of reflection and avenues for further exploration. In order to understand the
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From the NMA to the NMLA: the Shift to Armed Struggle
On 17 January, 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (NMLA) declared war to the Malian State in the name of Azawad’s
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The Political Stakes of the Ukrainian Presidential Election
The Power Shift in Kiev Shortly after taking office, the new central authorities faced the problem of separatism in Crimea and the East and South
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Testimony of General Ahmed Tlass on the Syrian Regime and the Repression
Born in 1961 in the town of Rastan between Homs and Hama, General Ahmed Tlass graduated from the Police Academy with a doctorate in Political
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Transformations of Trans-Border Areas in the Context of the Syrian Conflict
Syrian and Iraqi borders dynamics exemplify the ongoing metamorphoses in the Middle East, and their neighbors in the region—Turkey, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel—deeply feel
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Between Al Qaeda and the Syrian regime: A Path Out of the Current Crisis
This report is the result of two weeks of field research in the governorate of Aleppo and three weeks of interviews all along the Turkish-Syrian
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Mapping Competing Strategies in the Syrian Conflict
The rebels control a majority of the territory, but the regime still rules over the majority of the population, as it keeps a hold over
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National Territory Crumbling: The Dynamics of Syria’s Borders
This map is based on data gathered by Cyril Roussel in the course of fall 2013.
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The Civilian Administration of the Insurgency in Aleppo
While the human and financial means were limited, civilian institutions have nevertheless emerged in a few months in the zones conquered by the insurrection movement
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Komalah Mountains
“Photographing them in black and white was not an aesthetic choice” GASPARD THIEKARO Since 1991, the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan has enjoyed relative stability,
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Iraqi Christians
GASPARD THIEKARO Kidnapping, hostage taking, executions, bombings have punctuated the lives of Christians in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Their only solution is
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