AHSR Concept Note
A multistakeholder engagement was established in 2022 to undertake research and generate a set of voluntary principles to ensure that negative humanitarian impacts associated with sanctions and related regulations are mitigated and minimized. The AHSR team recognizes that targeted sanctions are vital for upholding norms and promoting international peace and security. When carefully designed and […]
Safeguarding Humanitarian Banking Channels: How, Why and by Whom?
Published by the Norwegian Refugee Council in January 2023, this report by Dr. Erica Moret seeks to fill a knowledge gap on financial sector derisking, focusing on potential remedies and solutions that governments, international organisations, the financial sector and other stakeholders could adopt. It is based on outcomes from a closed expert practitioner workshop held […]
Wilton Park Conference Report on Sanctions, Incentives, and Human Security: Economic Statecraft and Humanitarian Crises
The May 2022 Wilton Park conference brought together a diverse group of 40 sanctions and humanitarian sector experts from around the world to discuss their research and to examine ways of including stronger safeguards to prevent sanctions’ negative humanitarian impacts, which among other positive outcomes would improve the effectiveness of sanctions. Hosted in partnership with […]
Syria: From Punitive Sanctions to an Incentive-Based Approach
To fully scrutinize the humanitarian impact of sanctions, the Sanctions and Security Research Project commissioned case studies on Iran and Venezuela, and collaborated with the Carter Center’s project on Syria, which recommend stronger safeguards to prevent negative humanitarian impacts and offer ways of improving the effectiveness of sanctions and strengthening of incentives. This paper is a […]
Sanctions, Economic Statecraft, and Venezuela’s Crisis
This case study on Venezuela was prepared by Francisco Rodríguez, 2021–22 International Affairs Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations and Director, Oil for Venezuela. This study summarizes the evidence on the effect on Venezuela’s economic and social conditions of economic sanctions and other actions of economic statecraft taken by the United States and […]
The Inflation Weapon: How American Sanctions Harm Iranian Households
This case study on Iran was prepared by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and principal member of When Money Can’t Buy Food and Medicine, a project funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies.