State Fragility Africa, Asia, Civilians At Risk, Conflict Monitoring, Current Hotspots, Governance, Local-Level Violence, Political Stability, Violence Against CiviliansBy Clionadh Raleigh4 July 2014After a cursory look at the Fund for Peace’s (hereafter FFP) 2014 fragile state rankings, @ACLEDInfo mentioned on twitter that the metrics were ‘questionable’. We suggested index’s rankings of fragility bear little relationship to reality.…
