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This week on War & Peace, Olga speaks with Gabriella Gricius, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute, to discuss Arctic security, Donald Trump’s ambitions to acquire Greenland, Russia’s and China’s interests in the High North, and how NATO and European capitals are responding.

The peace process in the Bangsamoro, the newly autonomous Muslim-majority region in the southern Philippines, has run into stumbling blocks, including repeated postponements of regional parliamentary elections. Manila and regional authorities should strive to get the transition back on track, lest its promise dim. 

After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, they severely curtailed women’s rights. The private sector, in particular small-scale entrepreneurship, has emerged as one of the last spaces where women can attempt to cobble together a living, albeit with significant challenges.

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.

A joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, followed by Iranian retaliation against U.S. military assets, Israel and other U.S. allies, has engulfed much of the Middle East in conflict. Crisis Group experts offer a 360-degree view of the new war’s initial reverberations in the region.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard talks with Crisis Group experts Ali Vaez, Yasmine Farouk, Mairav Zonszein and Michael Wahid Hanna about the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, its fallout in the Gulf and wider region and what might come next.

Even before the price of oil spiked, the Trump administration was eyeing Venezuela’s natural resources. There is now more urgency to getting access to petroleum and critical minerals. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Bram Ebus and Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr explain the challenges lying ahead.

In short video updates, Crisis Group experts report on the new war in the Middle East and analyse developments from their respective countries.