In July 2014, humanitarian agencies and the government of Somalia warned of a new severe drought in Somalia, only three years after more than 250,000 people died in a deadly famine. In a report for Tufts University and the Rift Valley Institute, Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid examine the lessons arising from the international response to the famine in 2011 on how to prevent and mitigate a similar crisis.

Thinking about Borderlands: Observations and implications from XCEPT programme research
Do the ways in which policymakers and national governments view borderlands reflect how the communities living there experience them? Building on this, can a better