During the Inception Year of the Conflict Research Programme (October 2016 - April 2017), the CRP research teams undertook research in their respective focus countries, conducting scoping missions, literature reviews and data-set analysis to better understand the contexts on the ground and provide the rationale for the CRP research design.
The findings were captured and synthesised in a series of papers informing the research plans for the duration of the project.
Democratic Republic of Congo
by Tatiana Carayannis, Koen Vlassenroot, Kasper Hoffmann and Aaron Pangburn
Iraq
by Toby Dodge, Zeynep Kaya, Kyra Luchtenberg, Sarah Mathieu-Comtois, Bahra Saleh, Christine M. van den Toorn, Andrea Turpin-King and Jessica Watkins
South Sudan
by Alex de Waal, Rachel Ibreck, Naomi Pendle, Hannah Logan and Alice Robinson
Somalia
By Nisar Majid, Aditya Sarkar, Claire Elder, Khalif Abdirahman, Sarah Detzner, Jared Miller and Alex de Waal
by Alex de Waal
Horn of Africa and Red Sea
by Alex de Waal
Data
by Allard Duursma