The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is entering its third week, with no end yet in sight. Crisis Group experts offer a 360-degree view of its effects on peace, security and economic stability around the world.
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Trump is learning he can sidestep the UN when he wants to and get away with it while occasionally using it for instrumental purposes.
I don’t really think [the Board of Peace] is a credible international institution that will have the capacities of the UN, but I do think that it is a very worrying signa...
The Board of Peace is a symptom of a fragmenting geopolitical order.
The Board of Peace is likely to calcify, if not accelerate, a disruption in the current multilateral order.
Power and influence in the world order is shifting away, and Europe has to think about how to respond to that.
If Gaza implodes, the Board [of Peace] won't have a lot of credibility elsewhere.
On Our Radar scans conflicts and crises around the globe every week and features some of the hotspots Crisis Group’s analysts are closely watching. Whether an under-reported trend or a headline-grabbing development, our field experts explain why it matters or what should be done.
Originally published in World Politics Review
The Trump administration is imposing conditions on U.S. international aid that could have profound effects on programs serving women and girls in conflict. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Cristal Downing describes the potential fallout at the UN and ways to mitigate it.
For International Women’s Day, Crisis Group President and CEO Comfort Ero shares a list of her top ten Crisis Group publications, op-eds, interviews and podcasts from the last year, exploring how conflict and gender intersect.
Over three decades, Crisis Group has built up a wide body of work on gender and conflict – evolving from a 2003 piece on women and reconstruction in Afghanistan to the range of publications covering much of the globe that is available today.
Crisis Group expert Richard Gowan summarises the main takeaways from the Security Council emergency session on U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran
Crisis Group expert Richard Gowan analyses the UN vote marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.
The text below is an edited version of a lecture that Crisis Group President & CEO Comfort Ero gave to the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University on 24 February 2026.
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