Project on Fragility and Mobility

The Project on Fragility and Mobility at CSIS is committed to reinvigorating U.S. leadership in fragile contexts

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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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Spotlight on  Human Mobility

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Photo: JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images

Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape

The United States and international community needs to reevaluate funding and response models to mitigate Mozambique’s devolving security landscape, weakened humanitarian coordination, and low levels of trust between actors.

Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Emilia Columbo — August 8, 2023

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Spotlight on  Stabilization and Global Fragility

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Photo: Inti Ocon/AFP/Getty Images

Tracked: Stories at the Intersection of Migration, Technology, and Human Rights

Take a deep dive into the different types of technology migrants encounter on their journeys, how governments use migrant data in decision making, and its implications on human rights.

Digital Report by Lauren Burke Preputnik, Erol Yayboke, ​Marti Flacks, and Anastasia Strouboulis — December 15, 2022

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Putting Climate Migration Back on the COP27 Agenda

As COP27 parties gather in Sharm El Sheikh, research from Central America sheds light on how climate change is shaping migration and the need for policy actors to mobilize finance for anticipatory action, adaptation, and loss and damage.

Commentary by Beza Tesfaye and Elizabeth Ferris — November 10, 2022

Update on Forced Displacement around Ukraine

There are over 7.5 million Ukrainian refugees and nearly as many internally displaced persons. Some Ukrainians have been forcibly transferred to Russia and, after Putin’s mobilization, a new group of forcibly displaced people has been created, this time from Russia itself.

Critical Questions by Erol Yayboke, Anastasia Strouboulis, and Abigail Edwards — October 3, 2022

Why We Fight: A Conversation with Dr. Chris Blattman

Please join the CSIS Project on Fragility and Mobility from 10:00 - 11:00 am on September 7 for a discussion with economist and political scientist Dr. Chris Blattman on his recent book, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.

Event — September 7, 2022

Addressing Fragility in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is one of five priority countries under the U.S. Global Fragility Strategy. This brief provides U.S. government policymakers and implementing agencies with recommendations on deploying U.S. conflict-prevention and peacebuilding capabilities in PNG.

Brief by Erol Yayboke, Bridi Rice, Catherine Nzuki, and Anastasia Strouboulis — August 17, 2022

Panel 4: Humanitarian Innovation in Responses to Displacement

This conference explores the complex challenges facing the global humanitarian community and the way in which innovations—in people, processes, and products—can improve humanitarian response and mitigate the impacts of future crises.

Transcript — July 26, 2022

Humanitarian Innovation in Action

This conference explores the complex challenges facing the global humanitarian community and the way in which innovations—in people, processes, and products—can improve humanitarian response and mitigate the impacts of future crises.

Transcript — July 25, 2022

Panel 2: Elevating Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Response

This conference explores the complex challenges facing the global humanitarian community and the way in which innovations—in people, processes, and products—can improve humanitarian response and mitigate the impacts of future crises.

Transcript — July 25, 2022