Our Partners

CRP Research Director, Prof Alex de Waal, is also Director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF), based since 2011 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy within Tufts Unversity. 

The WPF seeks to be a node of intellectual leadership on issues of peacebuilding, basing its work on both rigorous evidence-based research and academic theory. The WPF supports the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel in its work on the Horn of Africa and this provided a conduit for CRP research in that region. Through its links with the Feinstein International Center, the WPF took a lead on issues of displacement and humanitarian action in Somalia and Prof de Waal held executive oversight of CRP research in Somalia, South Sudan and the wider region.

CRP work in eastern DRCongo was led by Prof Koen Vlassenroot and his team at the Conflict Research Group, University of Ghent. The Group was founded in 2002 as an independent unit within the faculty of Social and Political Science and its work is focused on the links between local and global dimensions of conflict and its impact on local societies, with particular reference to the Great Lakes region of Africa. 

Prof Vlassenroot worked with an experienced  Congolese team hosted by the 'Groups d'Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine' based at the Institut Supérieur de Pédagogie in Bukavu who are undertaking research in eastern DRC and the borders with South Sudan and Uganda. The team in Ghent worked closely with Dr Carayannis at SSRC to explore comparative issues and facilitate joint events in DRC.

IRIS is an independent research centre housed at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) and directed by Christine van den Toorn. The institute has access to a wealth of local experience from the student body, faculty and research teams and has conducted fieldwork across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and its disputed territories.

The CRP's work with IRIS was facilitated through the LSE Middle East Centre under the direction of Prof Toby Dodge.

Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies is an independent, nonprofit think tank based in Baghdad, Iraq. Its primary mission is to offer an authentic perspective on public and foreign policy issues related to Iraq and the region.

The Local Administration Councils Unit (LACU) is a Syrian NGO which aims to promote the concepts of good governance and democratic practices by focussing on the issues of free and fair elections, decentralisation, equal citizenship, womens empowerment and constitutional and public policy reforms. LACU operates through a wide network of key experts and researchers distributed throughout Syria's provinces, in addition to several Syrian and international consultants abroad. 

Al-Amal Association is Iraq’s foremost women’s rights organisation. Since its foundation in 1992, it has been at the forefront of campaigns for enhancing women’s rights and has pushed the Iraqi government and national actors to deliver on women’s rights and to end discrimination against them.

Iraqi Women Network is a non-political, non-partisan umbrella network of Iraqi women’s rights NGOs. It works to build democracy, law enforcement and human rights and to eliminate violence and all forms of discrimination against women in Iraq.

Public Aid Organisation is an Iraqi women’s rights organisation and forms part of the Iraqi Women Network.