Project on Fragility and Mobility

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

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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Meet the experts, staff, and non-resident affiliates who contribute to the work of the Project on Fragility and Mobility.

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Spotlight on Human Mobility

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

The San Antonio Tragedy Was Sadly Not Uncommon

Commentary by Marie McAuliffe and Céline Bauloz — June 30, 2022

Going Green While Building Peace: Technology, Climate, and Peacebuilding

Commentary by Erol Yayboke , Catherine Nzuki , and Anastasia Strouboulis — March 3, 2022

Photo: WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images

Ukraine’s Regional Displacement Crisis

Commentary by Erol Yayboke — February 25, 2022

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Spotlight on Stabilization and Global Fragility

Addressing Climate Security in Fragile Contexts

The impact of climate change on peace and security is recognized as a growing challenge for fragile states, but development actors are ambivalent on how to address it. While complexity has limited effective actions, inaction is no longer an option.

Commentary by Beza Tesfaye — February 1, 2022