If this e-mail does not display correctly, click here to view it online for the week of 26 January 2009 Conflict areas and subjects covered in this week's update: Reports: Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Indonesia Conflict risk alert: DR Congo Commentary: Zimbabwe, Iraq, foreign aid and the financial crisis (Haiti, Liberia), Turkey Crisis Group survey: Please participate Crisis Group reports published this week: Guinea-Bissau: Building a Real Stability Pact 29 January 2009 Despite Guinea-Bissau's widely praised elections in 2008, allegations of attempted assassination and coup d'état heighten the need to guarantee stability and institutional reforms. For the full report in French click here. Iraq's Provincial Elections 27 January 2009 Elections on Saturday have a potential to make still fragile Iraq more stable by reversing severe imbalances in provincial governance created four years ago, which generated deep grievances and widespread violence. Local Election Disputes in Indonesia: The Case of North Maluku 22 January 2009 An Indonesian provincial election dispute that once threatened to erupt in violence appears to be sputtering to an anticlimactic close, more evidence that Indonesia's democratic institutions are working. more Crisis Group reports Conflict risk alert: Conflict Risk Alert: DR Congo 27 January 2009 The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have struck a deal for military cooperation that risks a new escalation of combat in the eastern Congo and an even greater humanitarian crisis. Crisis Group commentary: Exclusive: "Zimbabwe - No Time to Wait-and-See" Donald Steinberg, 30 January 2009 "Bravo Iraqi Elections, But Now Comes the Hard Part" Joost Hiltermann, Foreign Policy, 30 January 2009 الرهان على انتخابات مجالس المحافظات في العراق Betting on the Provincial Elections in Iraq Joost Hiltermann and Peter Harling, Al Hayat, 29 January 2009 "First Lehman Brothers, Next Liberia?" Donald Steinberg, The Globalist, 26 January 2009 Turkey: "Turkin jäsenyysneuvottelujen ei saa antaa kariutua" Hugh Pope, Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), 19 January 2009 more Crisis Group commentary Crisis Group survey: Crisis Group Survey 29 January 2009 As Crisis Group constantly maintains and improves the quality of its conflict resolution efforts, we are asking those who follow Crisis Group to participate in a short online survey about our work. Crisis Group contacts: Andrew Stroehlein (Brussels) +32 2 541 16 35 Kimberly Abbott (Washington) +1 202 785 1601 To contact Crisis Group's Media Unit please click here Visit Crisis Group's website: http://www.crisisgroup.org/ The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation covering over 60 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents, worki ng through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. To unsubscribe from this "Weekly Update", please click here.