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2025-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 1 January 2025 To 31 December 2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 306136

Conflict Research Society

Charity's principal address 45 Ethelbert Road

Canterbury Postcode CT1 3NF

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body) entitled
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Kristin M. Bakke Chair CRS Council
Hugh Miall President CRS Council
John Gledhill Membership Secretary CRS Council
Hilary Adams Treasurer CRS Council
Jennifer Hodge Strategic director CRS Council
Imrana Alhaj Buba Secretary CRS Council
Christine Cheng Council Member CRS Council
Kit Rickard Council Member CRS Council
Teresa Dumasy Council Member CRS Council
Valerie Sticher Council Member CRS Council
Corinne Barra Council Member CRS Council
Sebastian van Baalen Council Member CRS Council
Robert Nagel Council Member CRS Council
Allard Duursma Council Member CRS Council

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

Association How the charity is constituted

Annual election to Council by membership at AGM Trustee selection methods

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Section C Objectives and activities

The objects of the Society are to promote research, practice and the extension of knowledge in the fields of Peace and Conflict Research. By the term ‘Peace and Conflict Research’ is meant the investigation and study on a systematic basis of the following:

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

a) The CONDITIONS AND DYNAMICS of cooperation and conflict at all levels, with special reference to large-scale violent conflicts, including war.

b) The FACTORS within and across social systems which cause them to approach or avoid constructive or destructive conflicts. This requires a multi-disciplinary pooling of knowledge.

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c) The PROCESS of preventing, managing, resolving and transforming conflicts and building peace, including such specific proposals as the modification of existing social or political institutions or the creation of new ones. ‘Building peace’ includes research into underlying asymmetries and inequalities and their implications. It also includes research and activities related to exploration of the creative dimensions of what has been termed positive peace. d) The LIKELY CONSEQUENCES of particular policies and proposals intended to avoid, resolve or control conflicts, or to increase cooperation between groups of individuals, the steps necessary to realise such proposals, and possible obstacles in their way. This includes research into the link between theory and practice.

e) Any other problems directly relevant to conflict and cooperative behaviour. The investigation and study is directed as far as possible towards finding factual evidence and objective criteria for testing theories and hypotheses. This includes the aim of relating quantitative and qualitative data.

To this end, the Society organizes an annual conference and occasionally other meetings. It publishes a newsletter for the benefit of members. It gives an annual Book Prize to the most outstanding book in its field every year, and awards a prize for the best piece of PhD research. It occasionally offers small travel grants to PhD researchers in its area. It promotes the exchange of news and information in the conflict research and practice field through its website, twitter feed and networking.

In organizing these activities the trustees have regard to the guidance Summary of the main issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

The annual conference, this year held at the University of Kent, was yet Summary of the main again a success, with around 235 participants, from more than 80 achievements of the charity institutions. Around 11 percent of attendees were practitioners. during the year Participants reported that they found the quality of the research presented of very high quality, and they praised the mixture of different disciplinary approaches that make the discussion and atmosphere at CRS so special. The feedback we received yet again indicated that the CRS conference continues to be a particularly good conference for PhDs and early career researchers to attend. This year’s conference featured the initiation of the “Emerging Scholars Initiative,” run by CRS Council member Valerie Sticher, aimed at connecting emerging scholars with experienced CRS members, providing career guidance and hands-on support for individual projects.

The conference opened with a welcome from the CRS Chair, Kristin M. Bakke, and the CRS Strategic Director, Finn Klebe, as well as the Kent host, Nadine Ansorg. They emphasised the continued commitment of the CRS and its annual conference to interdisciplinary research, different methodologies, and the links to policy and practice, as well as the friendly and welcoming ethos of the CRS. The opening remarks were followed by a keynote address by Ismene Gizelis from the University of Essex, on “Peace from Above or Peace from Below? UN Peacekeeping, Governance, and Security.”

The theme of this year’s conference was “Legitimacy in Conflict and Peace,” and the conference kicked off with a public roundtable on “Can Peacebuilders Still Work for Legitimacy in a Time of 'Radical Uncertainty?” featuring several high-profile practitioners—from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogues, Conciliation Resources, Mercy Corps, and the FCDO. The conference also continued to recognise outstanding contributions to the field. Promise Frank Ejiofor, from the University of Cambridge, was awarded the Cedric Smith Prize for the best piece of research by a PhD candidate or someone having recently passed their PhD defense, for the paper, “Gendercide and Terrorism Studies.” The CRS Book of the Year Prize—which honours research that is contemporary, exceptional and world-leading—went to Adam Lichtenheld, from Leiden University, for Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars . This year, the CRS medal for outstanding contribution to the CRS was presented to long-term CRS Membership Secretary, Herb Blumberg. Although Herb was not able to attend this year’s CRS, remarks by Kristin Bakke in presenting the CRS medal drew attention to the long history of dedication and commitment that Herb has demonstrated to the CRS.

On the eve of conference, the CRS conducted a council meeting, during which both this year and plans for future conferences were discussed. The council shared its deep gratitude to Hilary Adams, for her invaluable work as treasurer. John Gledhill presented the membership report. In addition to the council meeting held at the conference, the Council meets regularly throughout the year (online meetings) and discuss matters by email.

Individual Council members and members of the Society in general participate in a wide range of activities which promote conflict research and practice, and news of these activities are circulated in the Society’s newsletter and via social media.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

Brief statement of the The Society made a deficit in the current year of £721 which when charity’s policy on reserves subtracted from the surplus brought forward of £49,848, leaving a balance to carry forward of £49,127.

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Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Prof. Kristin M. Bakke Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 08.04.26

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Charity Name No (if any)
Conflict Research Society 306136
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 1.1.25 31.12.25
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
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A1 Receipts
Conference fees 32,465 - - 32,465 29,749
Membership 2,134 - - 2,134 1,566
Grant - - - - 20,000
Interest 702 - - 702 886
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Sub total (Gross income for
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AR) [ 35,301 ]
A2 Asset and investment sales,
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Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 35,301 - - 35,301 52,201
A3 Payments
Awards & prizes 2,607 - - 2,607 347
Website & communivations 3,189 - - 3,189 1,690
Conference costs 26,392 2,702 - 29,094 47,023
Bank & paypal charges 1,103 - - 1,103 676
Admin 29 - 29 -
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Sub total 33,320 2,702 - 36,022 49,736
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Total payments 33,320 2,702 - 36,022 49,736
Net of receipts/(payments) 1,981 - 2,702 - - 721 2,465
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 47,146 2,702 - 49,848 47,383
Cash funds this year end 49,127 - - 49,127 49,848
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Conflict Research Society On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 Charity no (if any) 306136 Set out on pages Iren)pftTrbe." Ig"IcI..ev '.0 pa(j': I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust-) for the year ended a I , ,1> , Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5Xb) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ") in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply. Signed: Date: 231￿r2026 Name: LULI Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Fellow Chartered and Certified Accounlant Address: 23 Belsize Avenue. London, NW3 4BL Section B Disclosure Only cornplete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32. Independenl examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). IER October 2018