Organisation
Fride
A European think tank for global action
FRIDE is a think tank based in Madrid that aims to provide the best and most innovative thinking on Europe’s role in the international arena. It strives to break new ground in its core research interests of peace and security, human rights, democracy promotion, and development and humanitarian aid, and mould debate in governmental and non-governmental bodies through rigorous analysis, rooted in the values of justice, equality and democracy.
Published Documents
- Syria's uprising: sectarianism, regionalisation, and state order in the Levant
- S. Heydemann / Fride, 2013
- As the Syrian revolution enters its third year, the risks to regional stability are escalating. Violence has spilled over all of Syria's borders. The conflict has elevated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, threatening the 1990 Taif settl...
- Living with the Middle East’s old-new security paradigm
- R. Youngs / Fride, 2013
- Attention has gradually turned to the geopolitical implications of the Arab spring. It is broadly recognised that ongoing processes of change in the Middle East and North Africa are not just about domestic level political reform but a...
- The Mali conflict: avoiding past mistakes
- A. Boukhars / Fride, 2013
- The French military intervention in Mali was deemed necessary when radical Islamists threatened to expand their hold to the whole country, potentially creating a safe haven for al-Qaeda in the Sahel. However, the success of this inter...
- Brazil as a development actor: South-South cooperation and the IBSA initiative
- S-L. John de Sousa / Fride, 2008
- This report looks at Brazil as a development partner, its external perception as an important and crucial country for regional stability, and projection of its global identity as a ‘voice’ for the developing world in crucial...
- How can the security sector in Honduras be best supported?
- J. Schünemann (ed) / Fride, 2010
- The citizens of Honduras have been plagued with insecurity since the 2009 coup d’état which brought to the fore a sustained crisis of security and legitimacy making the political equilibrium very fragile. Levels of v...
- Kosovo: how can women's participation be strengthened? '
- A.Q. Mustafa / Fride, 2010
- Kosovo has developed a number of policies and mechanisms to respond to the needs of its citizens, in particular in relation to security and decentralisation. Nonetheless, as the study has shown, women face a particularly large g...
- How can the international community positively influence state-society relations and governance in Angola?
- S. John de Sousa (ed) / Fride, 2010
- Angola’s link to the international community or Western European powers is historically based on its status as a Portuguese colony until 1975. This document forms part of the Democratisation and Transitional Justice Cluster of t...
- "State of fragility."
- A. Gauthier; M. Moita / Fride, 2010
- The end of the dictatorship was supposed to promise freedom, respect of human rights, economic growth and better living conditions for Haitians. But during the past two decades, struggles for power, turbulent and fraudulent elections,...
- Strengthening women's citizenship in the context of state building: Guatemala
- M. Quitana; I. Alamilla / Fride, 2010
- How can the international community better assist the democratic process in Kenya?
- J. Zeeuw / Fride, 2010
- In early 2008 Kenya was almost on the brink of an all-out civil war after the outcome of a heavily disputed presidential election led to largescale violence between the country’s main ethnic groups. During eight weeks of bo...
