BY NATE HAKEN, DANIEL WOODBURN, EMILY SAMPLE, WENDY WILSON, JOHN MADDEN, PAUL TURNER, MIA BAXLEY, BILLY AGWANDA, MELINDA ELLINGTON, AYÇA KIRIŞ, CANDICE GARCIA, ISIDORE NSENGIYUMVA, EDIYE BASSEY, ALEXANDER BERGH, NIALL MOHAN

The Fragile States Index, produced by The Fund for Peace, is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are pushing a state towards the brink of failure. By highlighting pertinent issues in weak and failing states, The Fragile States Index—and the social science framework and software application upon which it is built—makes political risk assessment and early warning of conflict accessible to policy-makers and the public at large.

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