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Food security programming: Strengthening preparedness, responses and prevention
Mirella Bilalagic and Dr Simone BunseWith acute food insecurity on the rise around the world, this topical backgrounder presents four suggestions for making food security programming more cost-effective in a time of funding constraints, climate change and heightened conflict risk.
Tensions on the Belarus border: A look at military spending and arms import patterns
Dr Mathew George and Pieter D. WezemanWith heated rhetoric and intensified military activity along its borders with NATO neighbours, what does SIPRI data reveal about the status of Belarus's military?
Multilateral peace operations in 2022: Developments and trends
Dr Claudia Pfeifer CruzTo mark the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, SIPRI is releasing new data on multilateral peace operations in 2022.
Iraq in 2023: Challenges and prospects for peace and human security
Shivan Fazil and Dr Alaa TartirA snapshot of the situation and remaining challenges for Iraq, two decades after the invasion.
Iraq since the invasion: 20 years in SIPRI data
Lauriane Héau, Dr Diego Lopes da Silva, Lorenzo Scarazzato, Timo Smit and Pieter D. WezemanTo commemorate the upcoming 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on 20 March, SIPRI has prepared this Topical Backgrounder along with an Interactive chronology of security developments in Iraq spanning from 2002 to 2021. These materials are components of a larger collection of new materials that SIPRI is creating to commemorate the anniversary.
The proposed hike in Japan’s military expenditure
Xiao Liang and Dr Nan TianOn 23 December 2022, the Japanese cabinet unveiled its 2023 budget for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), totalling 6.8 trillion yen ($52 billion). The new budget is 26 per cent higher than the JSDF budget for 2022, the largest year-on-year nominal increase in planned military spending since at least 1952.
Environmental accountability, justice and reconstruction in the Russian war on Ukraine
Dr Jiayi Zhou and Dr Ian AnthonyThis Topical Backgrounder looks at the steps being taken in and beyond Ukraine to measure war-linked environmental damage, hold Russia to account and support green reconstruction, and puts them in an international context.
Afghanistan and its neighbourhood: A stocktaking of regional cooperation since the Taliban takeover
Dr Jiayi ZhouThis topical backgrounder presents several indications that a more regionally grounded, cohesive perspective and approach for Afghanistan is emerging—small seeds from which a sustainable response to Afghanistan’s peace, security and development challenges might grow.
Arms transfer and SALW control-related assistance in the Middle East and North Africa: Identifying needs and bridging gaps
Giovanna Maletta and Lauriane HéauUsing information from SIPRI’s database of ATT-relevant cooperation and assistance activities, this Topical Backgrounder provides an updated picture of assistance activities involving countries in the MENA.
Climate-related security risks in the SADC region
Katongo Seyuba and Tània Ferré GarciaThis SIPRI Topical Backgrounder provides an overview of the climate-related security risks in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, the current discourses on these risks within SADC, and SADC’s institutional architecture and policy responses to climate change.