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This week on The Horn, Alan Boswell is joined by Murithi Mutiga, Crisis Group’s Project Director for the region to discuss the conflicts and crises dominating East Africa. 

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope talk to Sabine Frischer, Team Leader for the Public Diplomacy EU and Russia Project, about Western perceptions of Russian foreign policy and how the EU should engage Russia. 

As Josep Borrell steps into his role as the new EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Crisis Group highlights seven countries where European leadership can combine political, financial and technical resources to rebuild and sustain peace and stability.

The Security Council has an opening to rethink its approach to DR Congo with this month’s mandate renewal of the UN peacekeeping mission. The council should prioritise local conflict resolution and bolstering President Tshisekedi’s efforts to improve regional relations to combat over 100 armed groups ravaging the east.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope talk to Angelina Eichhorst, from the European External Action Service, about how the EU and its eastern neighbours can navigate strained relations and why dialogue is crucial. 

China and the West are increasingly at loggerheads in Turtle Bay. So are European capitals and Washington. The handling of African crises is contentious as well. Amid these frictions, it is the job of UN diplomats to keep channels for quiet communication up and running.

The European Union has put instruments and tools in place to improve its early warning mechanisms. Member states must now work with EU institutions to make them more effective. One concrete step that Germany could take is to push the new EU leadership to regularly put countries ‘at risk’ on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope talk to Jeremy Shapiro, Research Director at the European Council of Foreign Relations, about European sovereignty and Europe's relationship with the U.S. and Russia.

The annual United Nations General Assembly high-level session in the last week of September offered leaders and diplomats the chance to address today’s gravest crises. UN Director Richard Gowan and Senior Analyst Ashish Pradhan reflect on what happened and its potential impact on crisis diplomacy.

This week on War & Peace, Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope explore with Bert Koenders, Crisis Group's board member, how Europe's security outlook has shifted dramatically in the last few years and the internal challenges surrounding that dangerous instability.