The International Crisis Group has announced a $20 million grant from Open Society Foundations in support of efforts to analyze regional and global issues fueling violence, including climate injustice and economic inequality and provide recommendations to address them.

The grant will be used to launch an innovation hub, which will support post-doctoral fellows specializing in emerging risks such as remote warfare, food insecurity, and pandemics. Housed within Crisis Group’s Future of Conflict Program, the hub will help the organization anticipate threats that arise in the near future and generate new funding ideas for innovative work. The funding also will enable Crisis Group to expand its network of local advocacy staff in conflict-affected countries, particularly in the Global South.

“We are grateful for this momentous and transformative grant that will enable us to develop cutting-edge efforts to tackle enduring and emerging conflict risks and reduce human suffering”, said Crisis Group president and CEO Comfort Ero. “In a world where impunity for mass killing runs rampant, where militancy too often expands unchecked, where a record number of people are starving, displaced, or silenced, in large part due to war, and where the threat of a nuclear confrontation is brought back by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I want to amplify our voice and magnify our impact as advocates for humanity.”