Climate & Sustainability
Climate pressures can interact with livelihoods, displacement, resource governance and existing sources of insecurity.
Our Work
Peace, Security & Governance
Understanding security through institutions, societies and systems.
A community dialogue session as part of a societal healing programme.
Our focus
Contemporary security challenges rarely fit neatly within national borders or traditional distinctions between domestic and international policy.
Conflict, violent extremism, institutional fragility, technological change, climate pressures and transnational threats interact in ways that require broader approaches to peace and security.
SPI examines how states, regional organizations, communities and other institutions prevent and respond to conflict and insecurity, with particular interest in the institutional and societal conditions that build resilience and sustainable peace.
Areas of inquiry
- Conflict prevention, peacebuilding and human security
- Preventing and countering violent extremism
- Governance, state capacity and institutional resilience
- Regional and transnational security
- Climate, technology and emerging security risks
Related work
Science, Technology & Society
Emerging technologies are changing both security threats and the institutions responsible for addressing them.
Africa & Global Affairs
Security cooperation, regional institutions and geopolitical relationships shape responses to conflict and instability across Africa.
Work with us
Collaborate on Peace, Security & Governance.
SPI welcomes collaboration with researchers, policy institutions, governments, regional organizations, civil society and practitioners working on peace, security and governance. We are particularly interested in work that connects security policy with deeper institutional, societal and regional dynamics.