Resources

The triple nexus approach – understood as a more coherent engagement by humanitarian, peace, and development actors – is necessary to deal with the complexity of third-party engagements in fragile contexts. Implementing the triple nexus approach is challenging yet pivotal for more effective third-party impact, argue Fritz Brugger, Joane Holliger and Simon J. A. Mason in this CSS Policy Perspective.

In numerous intra-state conflicts, societies are polarized along worldview divides and conflicting parties disagree over what kind of society and state they want to build. Such questions can deeply divide societies and block political processes and mediation efforts. This CSS Mediation Resources suggests a method for addressing such blockages by analyzing the principal challenges that can arise from worldview differences in conflicts and conflict transformation.

Geopolitical instability underpins the short-term energy-saving measures adopted in Europe in preparation for winter. Climate change’s impact on energy insecurity highlights an urgent need to simultaneously integrate longer-term climate mitigation measures, argue Christine Eriksen and Andrin Hauri in this CSS Policy Perspective.

This CSS Risk and Resilience Report analyzes the crisis management of the canton of Grisons during the coronavirus pandemic from the beginning of the international spread of the new virus until the lifting of the special situation by the Federal Council in April 2022. The focus of the evaluation is on the further development of the cantonal crisis organization with regard to the entire spectrum of threats in the canton and the cantonal cooperation with federal authorities and other cantons.