The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Risk Academy, a Nexortium programmeGovernance, Policy and International AffairsDepartment of Peace, Conflict and Security
Armed conflict, fragility, compound crises and security risk for organisations
Conflict, fragility and security covers armed conflict and violence, state fragility and exclusion, civil unrest, and how they shape exposure, vulnerability and the capacity to manage other risks, including compound crises in which hazards strike fragile settings.
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Twin figures for the Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
For Conflict, fragility and security: the faculty's twin of Horn of Africa on the planet map, the globe and in 3D. Pick a generator, switch layers, run the instruments; every layer prints its provider and date.
Drag to turn the globe, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows turn, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat map of the same data: the 13 countries on a graticule and the numbers below. The globe opens on devices with WebGL once its library has been checked; the live alerts, events and divisions load in the globe on request, each with its data date.
The map loads from this site as it nears the view (MapLibre 6.9.1, checked by hash).
The discipline teaches conflict analysis and conflict early warning on credited event records, fragility assessment, conflict-sensitive programming and do no harm, human security, and security risk management for organisations with a duty of care, under ISO 31000 and the Sendai Framework's attention to fragile settings. On the faculty's globe the Horn of Africa is read through the GDACS and EONET feeds as dated hazard signals; the conflict event and displacement layers stay empty because their rows are under legal review, and the page says so rather than filling them. A graduate can write a conflict analysis and a security risk plan in which every event carries its source and no judgement is presented as a forecast.
This area covers armed conflict and violence, state fragility and exclusion, and civil unrest, and how they shape exposure, vulnerability and the capacity to manage other risks. It is taught in the department of Peace, Conflict and Security, Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs, through 2 courses with it as primary discipline and 4 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Conflict analysis and early warning; Compound crises in fragile settings.
Recent developments in conflict, fragility and security, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026. Summaries are short readings of the source; follow the link for the full account.
News and research as they are published, per discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The newest research, preprints, news and humanitarian reports for Conflict, fragility and security, each with its source and date, load here. Open the research and news hub
No course with this primary discipline is open yet; these are planned, so you can prepare with the courses also taught here.
Courses with this primary discipline0 open, 2 in preparation
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These courses count in their own primary discipline and also teach this one; they do not count towards its achievement as primary courses.
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
| Lab | What you do in it | Courses using it |
|---|---|---|
| Map lab | Read hazard, exposure and boundaries on real maps | 3 |
| Network lab | Build dependency graphs, find critical nodes, trace cascades | 1 |
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