Project on Fragility and Mobility
The Project on Fragility and Mobility at CSIS is committed to reinvigorating U.S. leadership in fragile contexts
This program is no longer active.
Using foresight and policy analysis tools, it provides government, non-profit, and private sector leaders with evidence-based recommendations on how to boost community resilience, ensure safe and orderly human mobility patterns, develop stability out of conflict, and broaden national security conversations to include strengthening civilian tools to achieve these goals.
The Project on Fragility and Mobility provides an interdisciplinary and international space for new voices and new ideas to help rethink and reshape how best to (1) build resilience and prevent transnational threats in places around the world experiencing fragility and (2) align U.S. and allied national security interests with international human mobility-related frameworks, guided by the belief that protecting vulnerable people on the move allows us to secure our collective futures. The project is thus organized around several main issue areas.
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- Chief Communications Officer
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- Samuel Cestari
- Media Relations Coordinator, External Relations
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Spotlight on Human Mobility

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Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Emilia Columbo — August 8, 2023

Mozambique: A Nation of Unrealized Potential
Commentary by Courtney Stiles Herdt and John Christianson — June 15, 2023

Forgotten Frontlines: Aruba, Curaçao, and the Venezuelan Displacement Crisis
Commentary by Erol Yayboke and Ángeles Zúñiga — May 3, 2023

What India Becoming the World's Most Populous Country Means
Commentary by Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba — April 28, 2023
Spotlight on Stabilization and Global Fragility

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Tracked: Stories at the Intersection of Migration, Technology, and Human Rights
Digital Report by Lauren Burke Preputnik, Erol Yayboke, Marti Flacks, and Anastasia Strouboulis — December 15, 2022
Addressing Climate Security in Fragile Contexts
Commentary by Beza Tesfaye — February 1, 2022

Pursuing Effective and Conflict-Aware Stabilization: Lessons from beyond the Beltway
Brief by Erol Yayboke, Janina Staguhn , Hijab Shah, and Melissa Dalton — April 30, 2020

Colombia at a Stabilization Crossroads
Brief by Janina Staguhn , Erol Yayboke, and Melissa Dalton — March 5, 2020

Reimagining “Stabilization” in Lebanon
Commentary by Erol Yayboke, Hijab Shah, and Melissa Dalton — December 17, 2019
Latest Events

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Public Safety in Haiti: Now and Tomorrow

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Promise and Peril: Migration Management Technologies in West Africa and Central America

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Discussion on UNODC's Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022

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2022 Washington Humanitarian Forum: Closing the Gap
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Public Safety in Haiti: Now and Tomorrow
Event — June 8, 2023
Promise and Peril: Migration Management Technologies in West Africa and Central America
Event — February 22, 2023
Discussion on UNODC's Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022
Event — February 1, 2023
2022 Washington Humanitarian Forum: Closing the Gap
Event — November 9, 2022
Why We Fight: A Conversation with Dr. Chris Blattman
Event — September 7, 2022
Humanitarian Innovation in Action
Event — July 19, 2022
Book Event: Jennifer Sciubba's "8 Billion and Counting"
Event — May 5, 2022
World Migration Report 2022: Deciphering Global Trends and Complexities
Event — April 6, 2022
Book Event: MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us
Event — February 22, 2022