Focus Areas
Crisis Lens' work spans three core focus areas, plus two lenses that cut across all of them.
Conflict analysis, risk assessments, and measurement indicators that help organizations name the actors involved, understand what's actually driving instability, and gauge how likely a situation is to escalate — for national governments, multilateral institutions, and NGOs alike, across conflict-affected settings worldwide.
Early warning design, conflict forecasting, and anticipatory action methodology — including where predictive models struggle most and how to build community perspective directly into decision-making.
Mixed-methods evaluation of humanitarian, peacebuilding, and governance programming, built around producing recommendations organizations actually put into practice.
A gender lens brought to conflict, peace, and security work — research, indicator design, and program strategy — as a core line of analysis.
The same analytical rigor used in Crisis Lens' international conflict work, applied to political violence and instability within the United States.
Project-Based Consulting
A defined analysis, evaluation, or methodology engagement with clear deliverables and a set timeline.
Fractional & Embedded Leadership
Ongoing, part-time support building or scaling an organization's research or analysis function, drawing on years of senior research leadership experience.
Retainer & Ongoing Advisory
Standing analytical support for organizations that need continued access rather than a one-off engagement.
Ways We Work
Crisis Lens is grounded in experience spanning national governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and academic research centers, working on conflict, humanitarian response, governance, and peacebuilding around the world.