The December 2010 issue highlights the following research

* GENOCIDE: Preventing Identity Conflicts Leading to Genocide and Mass Killings

* NON-STATE ARMED GROUPS: Militias, Rebels and Islamist Militants: Human Insecurity and State Crises in Africa

* HUMANITARIAN SPACE: Shrinking Humanitarian Space? Trends and Prospects on Security and Access

* DERADICALIZATION: Deradicalizing Islamist Extremists

* AFGHANISTAN: Means to What End?: Policymaking and State-Building in Afghanistan

* SUDAN: Hoping for Peace, Afraid of War: The Dilemmas of Repatriation and Belonging on the Borders of Uganda and South Sudan

* FRAGILE STATES: Engaging Fragile States: An International Policy Primer

* PEACE PROCESSES: Money Makers as Peace Makers?: Business Actors in Mediation Processes

* AID: Domestic Humanitarian Response: Uganda Report

* WOMEN: National Outrage: Violence Against Internally Displaced Women and Girls in Eastern Chad

* BURUNDI: Closing Doors?: The Narrowing of Democratic Space in Burundi

* MELANESIA: Conflict in Melanesia: Themes and Lessons