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It argues that the 'security first' approach of international donors is flawed because it focuses on state security while ignoring the structural economic collapse caused by neo-liberal structural adjustment programmes and unsustainable debt. The author describes 'new wars' in Africa as rational economic responses to exclusion, where warlords utilize global markets for lootable commodities. 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It details the systemic politicisation, tribalisation, and de-professionalisation of the army during the Mobutu era, which led to a breakdown in civil-military relations. 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The authors argue that this threat failed to materialise due to the Burundian government's strategic use of its status as a troop-contributing country, a lack of unity among AU member states, and a regional culture of autocracy where neighbouring leaders were reluctant to challenge the extension of presidential term limits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001192#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"In December 2015, the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) took the unprecedented step of threatening military intervention in Burundi without the government's consent, invoking Article 4(h) of the AU Constitutive Act to protect civilians.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001192#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The threat of intervention via the proposed African Protection and Prevention Mission in Burundi (MAPROBU) failed because the AU lacked a reputation for such actions, failed to maintain public unity, and faced significant legal and material hurdles.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001192#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Burundian government successfully resisted the AU's coercive diplomacy by leveraging its role as a major contributor of peacekeepers to AU and UN operations, specifically AMISOM in Somalia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001192#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Regional dynamics within the East African Community (EAC) undermined the AU's efforts, as neighbouring autocrats were unwilling to set a precedent against the extension of presidential term limits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001192#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The AU's approach to the Burundi crisis followed a gradual escalation of conflict management tools, moving from preventive diplomacy and special envoys to targeted sanctions before attempting coercive military threats.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001192#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Somalia","Tanzania","Uganda","Rwanda","Kenya","Democratic Republic of the Congo","Chad","The Gambia","Comoros","Libya","Central African Republic"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study"]},{"id":"prio-001246","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001246","title":"Blocking Resolution: How External States can Prolong Civil Wars","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/40f98eae-0a76-481d-8420-be2d3841d246/Blocking Resolution How External States can Prolong Civil Wars.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The research argues that external states often intervene in civil wars to pursue objectives separate from those of internal combatants, which makes conflicts harder to resolve. 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This is attributed to the introduction of additional demands that shrink the bargaining range, the difficulty of updating beliefs in multi-party conflicts, and the lower costs of fighting for external states compared to domestic actors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"External states that intervene with an independent agenda—objectives separate from the goals of internal combatants—make civil wars substantially longer.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The general academic finding that external interventions prolong civil war is primarily driven by the specific subset of cases where interveners pursue independent goals, rather than interventions in general.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Independent interventions prolong conflict by increasing the number of combatants who must approve a settlement, which complicates bargaining by shrinking the 'bargaining range' of acceptable agreements.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"External states have less incentive to negotiate than internal actors because they face lower human and economic costs, as fighting occurs outside their own territory and they may exploit local resources to offset expenses.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"External states perceive lower benefits from negotiation because they cannot easily transition into domestic political movements or power-sharing arrangements, which are options available to domestic insurgents.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Empirical analysis using Cox Proportional Hazards models shows that wars with clearly independent interventions have an almost 80% chance of surviving to 5,000 days, compared to 40% for wars with any intervention and 20% for wars with no intervention.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Interventions coded as 'non-independent'—where the external state's goals align with an internal actor—have almost no statistically significant effect on the duration of the war.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001246#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Democratic Republic of the Congo","Sierra Leone","Rwanda","Uganda","Angola","Chad","Afghanistan","Lebanon","Western Sahara"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["statistical analysis","theoretical modeling","case study"]},{"id":"prio-001251","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001251","title":"Breaking the Conflict Trap","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/2cb455f1-97a5-4e8f-a02d-4710a052c40b/Breaking the Conflict Trap.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report argues that civil war is 'development in reverse,' creating a 'conflict trap' where poverty and institutional failure increase the risk of war, and war further degrades development. 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It highlights the significant role of the Islamic State (IS) in driving recent conflict increases and the prevalence of internationalized civil conflicts. While battle-related deaths have generally decreased over the last 20 years, specific hotspots in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia remain deadly. The paper also analyzes the decline in peace agreements since 2015 and the persistence of non-state conflicts, particularly violent drug cartel activity in Latin America and communal violence in Africa.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"In 2019, the number of state-based conflicts reached a record high since 1946, with a total of 54 conflicts recorded.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The expansion of the Islamic State (IS) has been a primary driver of the increase in conflicts since 2013. Despite reports of defeat in Syria, IS conflicts increased from 12 in 2018 to 16 in 2019, expanding into Somalia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Mozambique.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Battle-related deaths have steadily decreased over the past 20 years, with approximately 50,000 deaths recorded globally in 2019. Afghanistan and Syria were the two deadliest conflicts in 2019, with Afghanistan seeing an escalation to nearly 30,000 deaths.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Internationalized civil conflicts have seen a sharp increase since 2014, and the share of battle deaths in these conflicts has surpassed those in non-internationalized civil conflicts over the last five years.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Conflict recurrence is most prevalent in Africa and Asia, suggesting that underlying grievances and incompatibilities in these regions remain unresolved.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Since 2010, there has been a considerable increase in humanitarian ceasefires, particularly in Syria and Yemen, which the authors suggest may indicate the increasing severity of recent conflicts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The number of peace agreements has declined between 2015 and 2018, falling from 13 to 5. Africa has recorded the highest total number of peace agreements (187) between 1975 and 2018.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Non-state conflicts have stabilized at a higher level than a decade ago. While Africa and the Middle East have high levels of such conflict, Latin America experiences the most violent non-state conflicts, largely due to drug cartel violence in Mexico.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"One-sided violence has decreased globally since the mid-2000s, but Africa is the only region that has seen an increase in the number of groups perpetrating such violence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001634#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Afghanistan","Syria","Burkina Faso","Somalia","Africa","Latin America","Middle East","Iraq","Yemen","Mali","Democratic Republic of the Congo","Philippines","Asia","India","Pakistan","Iran","Israel","Lebanon","Nigeria","Cameroon","Mozambique","Republic of the Congo","Rwanda","Ethiopia","Eritrea","Sri Lanka","Bosnia and Herzegovina","Ukraine","Russia","Colombia","Mexico","Myanmar","Turkey","Ivory Coast","Liberia","Chad","Uganda","Burundi","South Sudan","North Macedonia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":[]},{"id":"prio-001635","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001635","title":"Conflict Trends in Africa, 1989–2019","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/dc465d80-400e-4056-8350-2f27e19d5031/Palik Rustad Methi - Conflict Trends in Africa 1989-2019 PRIO Paper 2020.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The paper analyzes conflict dynamics in Africa from 1989 to 2019, noting a record high of 25 state-based conflicts in 2019, many of which are low-intensity or involve the Islamic State. While Africa faces rising non-state conflicts and one-sided violence, it also leads other regions in the number of definitive ceasefires and peace agreements. The study further details the growth of UN peacekeeping operations in the region from 1994 to 2018, highlighting a significant increase in troop deployment peaking in 2010.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Africa reached a record high of 25 state-based conflicts in 2019, including 11 civil wars and 14 internationalized civil wars, with 13 conflicts fought over territory.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Islamic State (IS) is active in Africa, with nine countries experiencing conflicts with the group within their territories in 2019: Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Nigeria, Libya, Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, and Mozambique.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Battle-related deaths in state-based conflicts in Africa increased from 6,799 in 2018 to 8,407 in 2019, marking the first increase since 2014, driven by escalations in Libya, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Mozambique, and Niger.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Africa has recorded the highest number of definitive ceasefires and peace agreements compared to other world regions, with 187 peace agreements between 1975 and 2018.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Non-state conflicts in Africa are predominantly communal conflicts; while the total number of non-state conflicts decreased from 49 in 2018 to 42 in 2019, battle-related deaths fell to 2,791, the lowest since 2012.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Africa accounts for the largest number of incidents of one-sided violence globally, and it is the only region showing an increase in non-state groups employing such violence.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"UN peacekeeping operations in Africa saw a steady increase in both the number of missions and troop sizes from 2002, with troop numbers peaking in 2010 at nearly 80,000 personnel across eight missions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Conflict in Africa is often geographically concentrated in hotspots, such as the Lake Chad region and eastern DR Congo, as well as newer hotspots like the Ambazonia region in Cameroon and the border between Mali and Burkina Faso.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001635#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Cameroon","Burkina Faso","Somalia","Burundi","Niger","Chad","Nigeria","Libya","Mali","Mozambique","Rwanda","Ethiopia","Eritrea","Democratic Republic of the Congo","South Sudan","Central African Republic","Ivory Coast","Liberia","Uganda","Sudan","Afghanistan","Syria","Yemen","Mexico","World"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["quantitative analysis","regional comparison","trend analysis"]},{"id":"prio-001841","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/prio-001841","title":"Unpacking World Refugee Day: Humanitarian Governance and Human Rights Practice?","publisher":{"name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo","organization":"peace-research-institute-oslo"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/4bb326e2-735e-4f2c-be10-7fa0c3dd4c1c/Unpacking World Refugee Day Humanitarian Governance and Human Rights Practice.pdf?inline=true","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The author argues that World Refugee Day (WRD) functions as a tool for the UNHCR to recast refugee agency as an extension of its own humanitarian efforts, effectively acting as a 'surrogate state' for displaced people. By analyzing the 'World Pays Tribute' news story, the paper highlights a tension between the celebratory, de-politicized imagery of WRD—which often uses 'utopian representations' of joyful refugees—and the 'extra-democratic' realities of UNHCR governance, such as the 'warehousing' of refugees in camps and procedural gaps in refugee status determination.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The author contends that World Refugee Day (WRD) serves as a governance discourse that homogenizes and de-politicizes the experiences of displaced people, framing their agency as a result of UNHCR's humanitarian work rather than their own emancipation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The UNHCR is described as functioning like a 'surrogate state' for refugees, creating a divide between 'sub-citizens' (refugees who must follow specific scripts of suffering or gratitude to be heard) and 'supra-citizens' (UNHCR staff and international experts who move freely across borders).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The use of high-profile celebrities like Angelina Jolie in WRD celebrations is analyzed as a 'redemption narrative' designed to attract donor funds and political support from audiences in the Global North.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The author argues that WRD celebrations often rely on 'utopian representations' and simulations that obscure the harsh realities of displacement, such as the conditions of internally displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka or Palestinians in the Al Waleed camp.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a documented tension between the UNHCR's self-identification as a human rights organization and its actual practices, specifically regarding 'warehousing' (confining refugees to camps) and gaps in Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The UNHCR's budget grew significantly leading up to the period discussed, reaching a record US$2 billion in 2009, up from US$1.8 billion in 2008.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"prio-001841#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":[],"geography_discussed":["Africa","Malaysia","Chad","United States","Rome","Canberra","Geneva","Georgia","Tokyo","Nairobi","Sri Lanka","Democratic Republic of the Congo","Syria","Brazil","Canada","Kenya","Uganda"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["critical review","discourse analysis"]},{"id":"saiia-001470","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/saiia-001470","title":"Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy from Nigeria Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic","publisher":{"name":"South African Institute of International Affairs","organization":"south-african-institute-of-international-affairs"},"document_type":"research paper","language":"en","date_published":null,"source_url":"https://saiia.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CoMPRA-05-ekeruche-adeniran.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document analyzes Nigeria's economic contraction and subsequent recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the role of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and fiscal stimulus. It identifies critical gaps in social protection, gender-responsive policy, and fiscal buffers, while advocating for central bank independence and digital economy integration for long-term stability.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Nigeria experienced a severe economic contraction leading to a recession in the third quarter of 2020, with GDP growth falling to -6.1% in the second quarter and -3.6% in the third quarter before exiting the recession in the fourth quarter (0.11%).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Recovery was primarily driven by the non-oil sector, specifically telecommunications and information services (15.9%), financial institutions (13.34%), and quarrying and other minerals (21.16%), which remained resilient due to consistent demand and weak links to global supply chains.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Nigerian government implemented a fiscal stimulus of $1.4 billion (approximately 0.3% of GDP), with $1.1 billion targeting non-health sectors like hospitality and manufacturing, and $0.3 billion allocated to the health sector.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) adopted an accommodating monetary policy, reducing the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 13.5% to 11.5% by September 2020 and providing development finance interventions to the agriculture and manufacturing sectors.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Inflation rose from 11.5% in February 2020 to 14% by February 2021, driven largely by food price increases (13.98% to 17.25%) resulting from insecurity in food-producing areas, border closures with Benin, Togo, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad, and import bans on maize, sugar, and wheat.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Government support reached a very small fraction of the population; only 2.17% of surveyed respondents received assistance in May 2020, leaving millions of the 83 million Nigerians living in poverty without support.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The document warns that the CBN's direct monetary financing of budget deficits during a period of persistent inflation poses risks to macroeconomic stability and suggests that central bank independence is essential for low-income and lower-middle-income countries.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Structural weaknesses were identified in the lack of gender-responsive policies, such as childcare subsidies, and a failure to target the 'green recovery' in the Economic Sustainability Plan (2020–2021), which focused on increasing farmland rather than improving productivity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"saiia-001470#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["inflation","food security","social protection","green recovery","renewable energy","trade policy"],"geography_discussed":["Benin","Togo","Niger","Cameroon","Chad","Burundi","Ethiopia","Rwanda","Somalia","Kenya","South Korea","Japan","United States"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy assessment","economic analysis"]}]}