Alert! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding

Alert! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding is a yearbook providing an analysis of the state of the world in terms of conflict and peacebuilding from three perspectives: armed conflicts, socio-political crises and gender, peace and security. The analysis of the most important events of the year and of the nature, causes, dynamics, actors and consequences of the main armed conflicts and socio-political crises that currently exist in the world makes it possible to provide a comparative regional overview and to identify global trends, as well as risk and early warning elements for the future. Similarly, the report also identifies opportunities for peacebuilding and for reducing, preventing and resolving conflicts.

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About Alert!:

In these particularly turbulent times, marked by the erosion of multilateralism and the escalation of armed conflicts, the Alert! report serves as an indispensable and well-established tool. Since 2001, this yearbook has provided a rigorous and committed analysis of global conflict, taking an approach that identifies both risks and opportunities for peacebuilding. This year, as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security against a backdrop of conflicts that have exposed sexual and reproductive violence, as well as other forms of gender-based violence against civilians, the Alert! report makes a valuable contribution. In an era of uncertainty and competing visions about the future direction of the international order, it urges critical reflection on the persistent challenges to achieving a truly inclusive peace that places gender justice at its core.

Patsilí Toledo Vásquez
Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Taking a critical view of armed conflicts with a historical perspective is essential for identifying real risks and opportunities to advance towards peace with human security. Using a precise classification system, Escola de Cultura de Pau’s research team meticulously studies armed conflict to provide a holistic overview of armed conflicts and socio-political crises around the world. At both regional and state levels, they analyse their root causes and structural drivers, their trends and levels of intensity, as well as their impact from a gender perspective. Once again this year, the Alert! yearbook continues to be a benchmark for understanding conflict and contributing to the prospects for peacebuilding in the world today.

Enric Gonyalons
Senior Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean of DCAF – Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance

In a geopolitical context as complex as the one we witness today, it is difficult to adequately assess the peacebuilding work carried out by hundreds of institutions and organisations around the world. We need ways to accurately describe the state of armed conflicts and current socio-political crises, explain the progress of the peace negotiations taking place and identify the opportunities for peace that emerge, like beacons of hope pointing the way. For 24 years, this is what the Alert! report has provided as a tool for analysis that relates conflicts to human rights and peacebuilding.

Xavier Masllorens
President of the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP)