Global Overview Whether unprecedented or not, the challenges currently facing our global security are immense and cause for considerable alarm. It is difficult to think of a time in recent history when there has been such a confluence of destabilising factors - local, regional and global - hindering collective capacity to better manage violence. These overlapping risks, unchecked, could coalesce into a major crisis - indeed we are currently experiencing a spike in global conflict violence - without the safety net of solid structures to deal with it. When Crisis Group was founded, its premise was that bringing field-based expert analysis to the attention of (principally) Western policymakers...
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