The Politics of Coherence: The UK Government’s Approach to Linking Political and Humanitarian Responses to Complex Political Emergencies

This Research in Focus summarises the UK-specific findings of a study that examined the changing relationship between humanitarian and political responses to complex political emergencies (CPEs).The study focussed on two donor governments – the UK and the Netherlands – and on the United Nations. In addition, it looked at attempts to operationalise coherent humanitarian programming in Serbia, Macedonia and Afghanistan. At the end of the paper, the full project outputs are listed.