Valar is a client-focused strategy and risk management organization that specializes in information and analysis, crisis response, stabilization and peace building operations. In 2013, a group of experienced and motivated risk management, strategy and development professionals came together to di… read morescuss the changing nature of peace building and the response of stabilization organizations in today’s complex and rapidly-changing frontier markets. Collectively, this team of individuals set out to determine a set of principles that would redefine the interplay between information, analysis, security, and development. They endeavored to raise the bar and establish a new set of standards—rethinking how to provide assistance to conflict countries in need – and changed the game.