Caerus is a strategy and design firm.

  We help governments, global enterprises, and local communities thrive in complex, frontier environments.

Creating Safer Cities through Community Mapping with CaerusGEO
Keeping Businesses and Governments Informed with Media Monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa
Ensuring Productive Investments by Monitoring Stabilization Projects in Afghanistan, Photo courtesy of ACSOR
Understanding Violence in San Pedro Sula by Mapping Urban Flows, Photo Courtesy of La Prensa
Exploring Ways to Improve Security in Rapidly-Expanding, Littoral Cities
Examining Civilian Leadership in Syria

Policy & Planning

Resilience and Stability in Afghanistan

Caerus Associate Aimee Rose draws on her experience with USAID’s MISTI project to examine the complex, and at times incongruous, relationship between resilience and stability programming in Afghanistan. Rose warns of the danger in conflating the two.

Analysis

Co-Designing Development in Somalia

Caerus CEO David Kilcullen’s most recent publication, Somalia – Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State, examines security and development in Somalia. Kilcullen emphasizes the power of local ownership in rebuilding a country that has ranked last on the Failed State Index for the last five years.

Analysis

The Future of Syria

Caerus Senior Analyst and Syria expert Nathaniel Rosenblatt recently discussed the current dynamics and future challenges posed by the Syria conflict in an interview with London-based journalist Robert Tollast for Small Wars Journal. Drawing on regional experiences and current Caerus research on governance, Rosenblatt and Tollast examine what obstacles lie ahead in Syria.

Strategy

Building Safer Cities

At Caerus, we are exploring new ways of imagining the city—how it metabolizes and functions, and the ways stakeholders can work together to improve and sustain its health and vibrancy. We seek to make cities, and the communities within, more resilient. Caerus is using its new open-source mapping and data collection tool, CaerusGEO, to test how urban design can lessen crime and violence.

CaerusGeo

MENA News