Platform Launch: Early Action and Risk Tracking Hub (eEARTH)

International Crisis Group Platform Launch

Sept. 5, 2025

As Crisis Group marks its 30th anniversary this year, we’re launching a platform that signals both our evolution and our enduring commitment to preventing deadly conflict. The Early Action and Risk Tracking Hub (eEARTH) reinforces our early warning capabilities for an era when resources are increasingly central to conflict – from local disputes to big-power competition.

Building on our climate security work of the past few years, eEARTH will serve as a foundational platform for resource analysis, with ambitions to expand as our technological capacity and funding grow. Our ultimate goal is comprehensive conflict monitoring that incorporates diverse data streams. We’re starting with resources, not only because they are a critical domain in their own right, but also because they offer a manageable scope that allows us to develop and refine our methodology before scaling further.

This initiative reflects Crisis Group’s strategic transformation for a fracturing world. While we remain rooted in what we do best – drawing on our global network and access to all sides – eEARTH demonstrates how we’re adapting our toolkit for maximum impact. By fusing data analysis with political expertise, we’ve created something neither pure data analytics nor traditional regional reporting alone can achieve.

The platform addresses the stark reality that we confront today. With norms and constraints on the use of force eroding, protagonists increasingly weaponise resources – whether through unilateral water diversions affecting neighbouring states, climate-driven food insecurity opening doors for external interference or strategic exploitation of drought and floods by both local armed groups and regional powers.

What began as climate security monitoring in the Horn of Africa now encompasses a broader range of resource conflicts that define our era. This technological innovation – alongside our expanded presence in non-Western capitals and enhanced convening power – positions Crisis Group to shape policy where and how it’s made today, not just in Brussels and Washington but also in Riyadh, Nairobi and New Delhi.

Join us on 15 September as we demonstrate how eEARTH transforms early warning for a more merciless age, where understanding resource dynamics can still prevent suffering and stop conflicts from triggering larger conflagrations.

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