Crisis Group’s Africa program oversees four projects covering Central, Southern, and West Africa, and the Horn of Africa, reporting on 20 different countries within these regions. Our staff are located on the ground in twelve regional offices and seventeen other locations, covering more than 60 countries. Ambassador Thomas Pickering is our co-chairman and Louise Arbour, former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is our presidentĬrisis Group publishes annually some 80 reports and briefing papers and the monthly CrisisWatch bulletin on conflict regions around the world. Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation by distinguished diplomats, statesmen and opinion leaders including Career Ambassador Mort Abramowitz, Nobel Prize winner and former Finland president Martti Ahtisaari, the late Congressman Stephen Solarz, and former UN and British diplomat Mark Malloch Brown who despaired at the international community’s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to mass atrocities in Rwanda and Bosnia.

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DeMar DeRozan, Chicago Bulls: 6.8 net rating on the court, -6.5 net rating on the bench.Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz: 12.9 net rating on the court, -.7 net rating on the bench.Ja Morant, Memphis Grizzlies: 1.5 net rating on the court, 4.6 net rating on the bench.Chris Paul, Phoenix Suns: 9.0 net rating on the court, 6.7 net rating on the bench.Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks: 9.2 net rating on the court, -3.7 net rating on the bench.Joel Embiid, Philadelphia 76ers: 7.7 net rating on the court, -3.0 net rating on the bench.Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors: 14.7 net rating on the court, -4.1 net rating on the bench.LeBron James, Los Angeles Lakers: -.6 net rating on the court, -3.2 net rating on the bench.Kevin Durant, Brooklyn Nets: 4.5 net rating on the court, -1.0 net rating on the bench.Here are some splits other teams experience when their star players sit: It's not unusual for teams to experience such splits when their star players sit but rarely are they so drastic. So, the difference between Jokic playing for the Nuggets and sitting on the bench is the difference between playing like the best team in the league and the worst team.

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