Projects

This project will deliver comparative, cross-country research on adaptive responses to sanctions imposed in Myanmar and Somalia.

This project examines the reintegration of former Boko Haram associates in northern Nigeria and Cameroon’s Far North, with a particular focus on the r...

This project investigates the political economy of checkpoints in conflict-affected African borderlands. ​  

The project investigates the evolving patterns of illicit smuggling across the Levant, with a particular focus on how these shifts reflect and impact ...

This project develops practical policy tools to support gradual economic reintegration across the Levant Corridor.

This project investigates how anti‑money laundering and counterterrorism financing frameworks in key regional financial hubs can track or curb illicit...

This Project examines how gender shapes agency in the conflict‑affected borderlands of South Sudan.

This project examines how an understanding of historical patterns helps shed light on state formation, interstate relationship and the establishment o...

This project examines the factors that influence the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and manage climate change-related peace and security risks.

This project examines how women in the militarised Indo–Myanmar borderlands strategically exploit contradictions between overlapping gender systems to...

This project examines how women in the militarised Indo–Myanmar borderlands strategically exploit contradictions between overlapping gender systems to...

This research examines how emerging urban centres in Somalia are reshaping Somali political order.

This project focuses on how drought-driven livelihood stress reshapes informal and illicit cross-border trade across three fragile border regions: the...

This project examines the emergence of centres of digital innovation and infrastructure in Sudan and the Somali Horn of Africa, analysing how these hu...

This project examines how emerging centres in the Horn of Africa – including port cities such as Port Sudan and Berbera, and inland hubs like Semera –...

This research explores why conflicts over transition mineral mining escalate, drawing on 41 cases across 25 countries to support conflict-sensitive cl...

This research analyses how multi–actor interventions undertaken in response to cross-border conflict in Northeast Syria affect the interests, incentiv...

This research explores whether the make-up of a UN peacekeeping operation – the gender, origin or status of the personnel involved – has anything to d...

This research analyses conflict dynamics and violent extremist organisations operating across the Tanzania–Mozambique border, and assess ‘what works’ ...

This project takes an innovative, participatory approach to researching community dynamics and conflict on the Somalia–Kenya border.

Using stakeholder interviews and a legal framework desk review, this research examines how governance in borderlands shapes licit and illicit flows, i...

Using comparative fieldwork and complexity science, this research examines how governance in borderlands shapes licit and illicit flows, influencing c...

This research uses a mixed-method design combining field interviews, remote sensing through satellite imagery, mobility data, and desk-based analysis ...

This research uses a transdisciplinary approach to study water and land conflicts in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, focusing on women’s roles in resourc...

Research investigating the experiences of cross-border “war-women” abandoned by Ugandan soldiers, and their impact on conflict dynamics.   

This research examines the role of women in reducing, preventing, and resolving conflict in the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands, and how conflicts affect t...

Research looking at how gender norms, identities, and roles affect and are affected by conflict dynamics in the Mozambique-Tanzania borderlands.  

Research on radicalism often neglects its effects on young women and girls. This research aims to plug these gaps, feeding into policies to bridge the...

This research deepens the evidence available on gender-based violence affecting displaced Rohingya women and girls and investigates their strategies f...

This research maps out patterns of gender-based violence along the South Sudan-Sudan border, a unique context of repeated displacement and protracted ...

Research examining the vulnerability of women and girls in Africa’s Great Lakes region to SGBV by state and non-state forces. 

Research on technology’s role in investigations of sexual and gender-based violence during cross-border conflicts, with lessons from Ukraine, Iraq/Syr...

Research investigating the gendered impacts of ethnic violence in Myanmar before and since the 2021 coup.  

Research examining how humanitarian interventions affect the women and girls bearing the brunt of Sudan’s brutal war.   

The gendered impacts of conflict exposure in origin countries on behaviour and wellbeing among refugees in Jordan are the focus of this research.  

Research examining how internal displacement for women and girls in the Myanmar borderland has gendered effects on health access.   

Review of research on the multi-billion-dollar trade in the addictive drug Captagon, and the impact of smuggling on border dynamics in Syria, Iraq, an...

Research exploring how the rules that govern cross-border trade in Afghanistan have changed since the Taliban takeover.

Community action research on security and governance in the border regions of Uganda and Kenya.

This project focuses on international mediation in intra-state conflicts that have significant regional conflict dimensions. 

How should climate response strategies be customised for local conditions in conflict settings?

This research analyses how climate response (adaptation and mitigation) strategies should be customised for local conditions in conflict settings.  ...

This research analyses how resource management (NRM) and climate adaptation interventions under the EU Trust Fund for Africa’s (EUTF) programme contri...

This research analyses how ad hoc coordination mechanisms facilitate multi–actor interventions aimed at building effective and legitimate border secur...

This project aimed to gain a deeper understanding of how sociopolitical and cultural factors shapes how people in communities that are closed to the b...

 This award supported the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in researching governance in Iraq and how it relates to conflicts pas...

Research exploring conflict dynamics in the tri-border area of Chad, Libya, and Sudan, including the intersection of armed actors, gold mining, and mi...