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A failed war and a worsening economy present severe challenges to state authority in Georgia and make the need for serious reforms ever more urgent. If those reforms aren’t completed and expanded, President Saakashvili is likely to lose international goodwill and some of the $5.4 billion of aid promised at the donors conference. The government must restore stability to encourage foreign investment and development, should implement more effective social assistance, build a truly independent judiciary, eliminate high-level corruption and make vital changes to the electoral code and presidential powers.
Turkey and Iraqi Kurds: Conflict or Cooperation?
13 November 2008
Turkey’s newly adroit management of its relationship with Iraqi Kurds has resulted in a tentative victory for pragmatism over ultra-nationalism, but many obstacles remain before relations can be normalised.
Correcting Course: Victims and the Justice and Peace Law in Colombia
30 October 2008
Critically undermined by government disinterest in the victims of the armed conflict, transitional justice in Colombia seriously risks failing.
Recent reports & briefings
- CrisisWatch N°63, 1 November 2008, CrisisWatch N°63, 1 November 2008
- Azerbaijan: Defence Sector Management and Reform, Europe Briefing N°50, 29 October 2008
- Oil for Soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds, Middle East Report N°80, 28 October 2008
- The Philippines: The Collapse of Peace in Mindanao, Asia Briefing N°83, 23 October 2008
- Sudan’s Southern Kordofan Problem: The Next Darfur?, Africa Report N°145, 21 October 2008
- Burma/Myanmar After Nargis: Time to Normalise Aid Relations, Asia Report N°161, 20 October 2008
- Reforming the Judiciary in Pakistan, Asia Report N°160, 16 October 2008
- Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province: Land, Development, Conflict, Asia Report N°159, 15 October 2008
- CrisisWatch N°62, 1 October 2008, CrisisWatch N°62, 1 October 2008
- Kosovo’s Fragile Transition, Europe Report N°196, 25 September 2008
The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with some 135 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
