Nostalgia – Shared histories, divided futures

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22nd April 2026

Environmental dimensions of conflict in the Lake Chad region

Examining how instability damages the natural environment and how environmental conditions, shaped by natural and human‑driven change, influence confl...

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Sahel Governance Climate Change Borderlands

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20th March 2026

A region under pressure: Preventing climate change related c...

Cedric de Coning, Andrew Yaw Tchie, Thor Olav Iversen, Freedom Onuoha

How can we best prevent and manage climate-related insecurity in one of the world’s most vulnerable regions?

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Climate Change Borderlands

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17th March 2026

Introducing new XCEPT research in Myanmar borderlands

XCEPT’s Myanmar borderlands research explores how sanctions, financial systems and gendered agency shape borderland conflict economies.

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17th March 2026

Introducing new XCEPT research in the Horn of Africa

XCEPT’s Horn of Africa research looks at how evolving political centres, digital systems, urban change and gendered authority are transforming governa...

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Sudan South Sudan Somalia Ethiopia Governance Gender Conflict Economies Borderlands

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17th March 2026

Introducing new XCEPT research in the Levant

XCEPT’s Levant research examines how border governance, climate‑driven adaptation, and illicit networks intersect across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yem...

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Yemen Syria Lebanon Iraq Governance Conflict Economies Climate Change Borderlands

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12th December 2025

Beyond exclusion and resilience: Indigenous voices and cross...

Marta Furlan

A look at Indigeneous-led, cross-border environmental movements working to defend their rights and lands in the face of the intensive resource extract...

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Chile Argentina Climate Change Borderlands

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17th October 2025

New research on conflict, governance, and identity politics ...

Three new XCEPT research projects examine the current situation in Sudan and South Sudan.

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Sudan South Sudan Governance Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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23rd September 2025

Disaster capitalism in South Sudan

Nicki Kindersley, Mawal Marko Gatkuoth, Manal Abdulaziz Mudir

Climate change and other disasters creates opportunities for profitable exploitation of people and resources.

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South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Economies Climate Change Borderlands

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3rd September 2025

Field notes from Moyale: experiences of research in conflict...

Sukanya Purkayastha

A first-hand account of peacebuilding and community networks in conflict-affected borderlands.

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15th August 2025

New funding opportunities from XCEPT

We’re excited to announce a new round of funding calls from XCEPT .

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16th July 2025

The practical importance of cross-border research in the Dar...

Nicola Ukiah

Local ownership of borderland governance agreements is imperative when it comes to building trust and encouraging implementation.

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10th June 2025

What can we learn from regional and local efforts to manage ...

Cedric de Coning

A new research project will develop a set of principles and factors that influence the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and manage climate-related ...

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Nigeria Niger Horn of Africa and the Sahel Chad Cameroon Conflict Dynamics Climate Change Borderlands

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6th June 2025

The impact of underfunded humanitarian assistance in Eastern...

Olivier Guiryanan, Virginie Baudais

Underfunding of the humanitarian response to crisis of Sudanese refugees in Chad is creating significant challenges for refugees, particularly women a...

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Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Chad Migration Gender Borderlands

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27th May 2025

Q&A with Dr. Costanza Torre, King’s College London

Dr Costanza Torre

Dr Costanza Torre is the lead researcher on the South Sudan branch of the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme...

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Uganda Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Migration Borderlands

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22nd May 2025

The gendered dimensions of conflict impacts in the Tanzania-...

Anna Strachan

What role does gender play in how a cross-border insurgency affects the lives of those living in the area?

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Gender Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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9th April 2025

Where are women’s voices in water and land management in Uga...

Resty Naiga

Uganda’s progressive approaches to refugee management and integration have rightly drawn praise; but there is room for improvement in engaging women r...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Gender Borderlands

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31st March 2025

Using local approaches to respond to climate change in Asia’...

Tabea Campbell Pauli

Local knowledge and solutions are key to expanding access and ensuring effectiveness of climate action.

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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28th March 2025

“Just praying that we keep surviving”: forced displacement a...

Heather Tasker, Josephine Chandiru Drama, Badradin Elizeo Abdalla, Pamela Imma Lindiro, Richard Stephen Ineka, Lilian Sule Mazira, Onyango Galdine Loyda, Sabine Lee, Susan Bartels

Having been repeatedly displaced in both directions across the border between Sudan and South Sudan, returnees and refugees alike are struggling to su...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Gender Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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28th March 2025

Peripheral Vision: the legacy of the Local Research Network

Nathan Shea, Hannah Stogdon, Mohanad Hage Ali, Azeema Cheema

The XCEPT program team reflects on their journey, sharing insights and lessons from seven years of the Local Research Network.

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28th March 2025

New hardships on the horizon – Myanmar refugees facing new p...

Henri Myrttinen

The recent combined development of aid cuts with the increasingly restrictive policies of host countries have created new pressures on a scale that th...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Migration Gender Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Video

28th March 2025

Chatham House XCEPT MENA research in focus

Chatham House XCEPT researchers discuss some of their key projects.

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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Organised Crime Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

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26th March 2025

What ten villages on the Somalia-Kenya border can tell us ab...

Patta Scott-Villiers, Patta Scott-Villiers

What areas that haven’t received much humanitarian aid can tell us about how communities can cope with the recent reductions in foreign aid.

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Borderlands

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19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Sharing the experiences of wome...

Elizabeth Nyibol Malou

Elizabeth Nyibol Malou shares how her involvement in the XCEPT programme’s Local Research Network since 2018 has fostered valuable collaborations and ...

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19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: How collaborative research and ...

Joseph Majok

Joseph Diing Majok shares his reflections on how his involvement in the XCEPT programme’s Local Research Network has shaped his research career, parti...

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19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Xogta xuduudaha (knowledge of t...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin

Sahra Ahmed Koshin reflects on her transformative experience as a local researcher with the XCEPT programme, exploring the role of Somali women in cro...

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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

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4th March 2025

Participatory research in Bangladesh: empowering communities...

Tasnia Khandaker Prova, Azizul Hoque, Era Robbani

How does participatory research amplify local voices?

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South Asia Bangladesh Climate Change Borderlands

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3rd March 2025

Spaces of refuge as ‘extended battlefields’: gendered impact...

Anas Ansar, Benjamin Etzold, Syeda Rozana Rashid

The ongoing war in Myanmar is never far away for the more than one million refugees in neighbouring Bangladesh, and the refugee camps are sites of oth...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Gender Conflict Response Borderlands

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27th February 2025

Why South Sudan’s Unity State is drowning in pollution

Mawal Marko Gatkuoth

The rural population of Unity State has been suffering from pollution since the construction of a pipeline through Unity State in 1999, and the intens...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance

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21st February 2025

How conflict in Libya facilitated transnational expansion of...

Tim Eaton

Migrant smuggling and trafficking has flourished through Libya since its 2011 conflict. This article explains how this happened and why European polic...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Organised Crime Migration Governance

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17th February 2025

Conflict, displacement and children in paid work in the Suda...

Manal Abdulaziz Mudir

This post examines the pressures forcing many displaced people, including children, to seek paid labour to supplement dwindling support mechanisms in ...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

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12th February 2025

Africa Aware: How transnational human smuggling fuels confli...

Tim Eaton, Lubna Yousef

In this episode, Tim Eaton and Lubna Yousef discuss their research on conflict in Libya and the transnational expansion of human smuggling.

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12th February 2025

Pushing Back Against Hezbollah

Michael Young

In an interview, Kheder Khaddour discusses ongoing developments along the Syria-Lebanon border.

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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Borderlands

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12th February 2025

Peripheral Vision: Women Leading Conflict Research

Hear from the X-Border Women Research Fellows about what motivates their research project and how they overcome the challenges of doing research in fr...

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17th October 2024

The Centrality of Syria’s Peripheries

Kheder Khaddour, Armenak Tokmajyan, Michael Young

In an interview, Kheder Khaddour and Armenak Tokmajyan discuss the country’s borders and why they have remained intact.

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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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4th September 2024

How do you talk about the climate crisis in a city that’s st...

Dr Omar Mohammed

As humanitarian and reconstruction efforts are helping an Iraqi city deal with its violent past, one tree-planting project is helping to safeguard its...

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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance Conflict Response

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15th July 2024

Peripheral Vision: conducting research in conflict-affected ...

Tabea Campbell Pauli, Joseph Diing, Kheder Khaddour, Hkawng Yang Madang

Researchers working in borderland regions of Asia, the Middle East and Africa share their experiences and approaches to conducting fieldwork.

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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27th March 2024

Hearing local voices at the “Ground Zero” of climate change...

Tabea Campbell Pauli, Tasnia Khandaker Prova

Bangladesh is facing a climate emergency. Although it is one of the world’s least polluting nations, it is already experiencing some of the most sever...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Bangladesh Climate Change Borderlands

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26th March 2024

A flashpoint looms in southern Syria

Armenak Tokmajyan

As the influence of the Assad regime and Russia declines, Iran is emerging as the main actor, which could provoke a major Israeli intervention.

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Syria Middle East and North Africa Jordan Iran Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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22nd March 2024

Borders have undermined Syrian sovereignty

Kheder Khaddour

A forthcoming Carnegie paper will argue that to understand Syria’s future, we will have to focus on the country’s peripheries.

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Syria Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Jordan Iraq Iran Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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12th March 2024

An Iraqi path to prosperity?

Harith Hasan

In an interview with Michael Young, a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and editor of Diwan, Carnegie’s Middl...

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Middle East and North Africa Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Iraq Iran Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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29th February 2024

Myanmar: Resistance and the cost of the coup in Chin State

Tabea Campbell Pauli, June Nilian Sang

The first of February marked the third anniversary of the military coup that upended Myanmar’s decade of democracy in 2021 and plunged much of the cou...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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1st September 2023

Peripheral Vision: Localising Conflict Responses in Conteste...

Nathan Shea, Tasnia Khandaker Prova, Armenak Tokmajyan, Abdirahman Edle Ali

How does the global push for aid localisation apply to the research sector? In this podcast, The Asia Foundation, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle ...

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28th June 2023

XCEPT Research Spotlight: Dr Inna Rudolf

Inna Rudolf

Dr Inna Rudolf is a Research Fellow on the Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) research programme at King’s College London. Here...

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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Iraq Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

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28th June 2023

Sustaining peaceful pastoralism in Cameroon’s borderlands

Shidiki Abubakar Ali

Dr. Shidiki Abubakar Ali is part of the research team working on the XCEPT project, Promoting Peaceful Pastoralism. As part of this project, he has be...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Cameroon Migration Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Podcast

31st May 2023

Council of the Syrian Charter

Craig Larkin, Inna Rudolf, Nafees Hamid

In this podcast episode, Dr Craig Larkin and Dr Inna Rudolf are joined by Syrian lawyer and founder of the Council, Dr Naseef Naeem; journalist and Mi...

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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

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5th April 2023

Wheat and War: How Sanctions are Driving Russia-Syria Cooper...

Haid Haid

The conflict supply chain of wheat from Ukraine and Russia to Syria highlights interlinkages between the conflicts and the role of sanctions in drivin...

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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Response

Podcast

4th April 2023

A Tale of Two Border Towns

Renad Mansour, Hayder Al-Shakeri

The effort to secure Iraq’s borders after the defeat of ISIS has created other, new sources of instability, as conflict supply chains adapt to new cir...

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Middle East and North Africa Iraq Borderlands

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30th March 2023

Commodities, land contestation and conflict in Ethiopia and ...

Ahmed Soliman, Abel Demissie

This episode examines relations between Ethiopia and Sudan as part of an XCEPT project mini-series.

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Sudan Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Ethiopia Transnational Flows Conflict Economies Borderlands

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29th March 2023

A Critical Juncture for Sudan’s Democratic Transition

Rosalind Marsden

Progress on Sudan’s democratic transition has gained momentum and a solution may be in sight. International pressure is essential to reach an agreemen...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

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10th February 2023

Stability at What Cost? Smuggling-driven Development in the ...

Tim Eaton

The case of Kufra raises difficult questions for policymakers over what interventions to support in places that have come to thrive on illicit cross-b...

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North Africa Middle East and North Africa Libya Transnational Flows Borderlands

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23rd January 2023

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Fall 2022 Po...

Khine Win, Mustafe M. Abdi, Hamza Meddeb

In this podcast The Asia Foundation, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, the Rift Valley Institute, and their local research partners dis...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Economies Borderlands

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21st December 2022

A Selection of XCEPT Research From 2022

During 2022, XCEPT’s team of researchers experimented with remote data gathering, questioned assumptions about drivers of violence, and uncovered how ...

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Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

23rd November 2022

Is Pastoralism Under Threat in Nigeria’s Borderlands?

Abdullahi Umar Eggi

Abdullahi Umar Eggi grew up in a nomadic family in Taraba State, Nigeria, and has undertaken extensive research to understand how and why pastoralism ...

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Nigeria Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent Extremism Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics

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23rd November 2022

“We Cook Just Once a Week”: Conflict and Its Costs Along Afr...

Paul Clewett, Miralyne Zeghnoune, Shireen Issa

Across parts of Africa, conflict – both local and global – is compounding the negative economic effects of COVID-19, with price increases causing hard...

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Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Coronavirus Conflict Response Conflict Economies

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4th October 2022

Amid Commerce and Conflict, Some Border Towns Endure

Nathan Shea

Over decades of conflict and instability, the border town of Torkham, one of the main crossing points between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has found a wa...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

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28th September 2022

Storytelling, Memory and Momentum: Iraq’s Tishreen Movement...

Ruba Ali Al-Hassani

Despite observers claiming that Iraq’s Tishreen protest movement has been coerced into silence, this blog argues that it maintains mobilisation moment...

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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

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15th September 2022

Saudi Arabia’s Split-Image Approach to Salafism

Ahmed Nagi

The case of the Salafi groups underscores the complex evolution of cross-border exchange of religious ideas, with external powers able to grow influen...

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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Borderlands

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15th September 2022

In the Wake of the Military Coup, Sudan’s Rebel Groups Lever...

When the military launched a coup against the civilian government in October 2021, some of the rebel leaders sided with the country’s generals, rather...

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Middle East and North Africa Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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30th August 2022

Frontier Farming: Along the War-Torn Ethiopia-Sudan Border, ...

The capture of fertile agricultural land in Western Tigray and the eastern Sudanese Al Fashaga region sheds light on how profits from cash crops help ...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Economies Borderlands

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25th August 2022

The Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis and Responses in Cox’s Baza...

Azizul Hoque, Tasnia Khandaker Prova

In August 2022 it will be five years since the start of one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, yet the political and security dynamics su...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Bangladesh Transnational Flows Migration Governance Conflict Response Borderlands

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10th August 2022

How the Captagon Trade Impacts Border Communities in Lebanon...

Lina Khatib

Any policy designed to counter the growing Captagon trade must take into account its impact on local border communities.

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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies

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29th July 2022

The Iraqi Politics of Memory and Victimhood

Inna Rudolf, Ela Khaled

This post highlights the ways in which different groups invoke the wrongs afflicted onto their respective communities to gain leverage over the domina...

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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

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29th July 2022

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Spring 2022...

Joint bulletin from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center about recent research and activities....

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Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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22nd July 2022

Liars, Guns, and Money

Michael Young

In this interview, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center’s non-resident scholar Armenak Tokmajyan talks about Sarmada, Syria’s border with Turke...

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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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8th June 2022

Moving Medicine in Iraq: the Political Economy of the Pharma...

Renad Mansour, Omar Sirri

Poor infrastructure and even poorer governance is a critical part of the story of healthcare in Iraq, but so too is the complex issue of the movement ...

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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Organised Crime Governance Conflict Economies

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19th May 2022

Broken Borderlands: How Conflict is Changing Communities on ...

Alice Jenner,

Communities living on either side of national borders often forge deep cultural and economic ties but suffer acutely when countries clash. Borders har...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Photo Essay

29th April 2022

Rohingya Stories: Family, Mobility and Livelihoods at the Ma...

What is it like to be a refugee? This rich collection of multigenerational oral histories sheds light on the unique and personal circumstances of diff...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Bangladesh Transnational Flows Migration Borderlands

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28th April 2022

Bringing Loyalist and Opposition Factions Together: The Pros...

Rahaf Aldoughli

Western visions for a post-war Syria often entail the creation of disarmament and reintegration programs oriented toward members of Islamist groups an...

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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

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31st March 2022

Centering Affected Populations in Humanitarian Research

Learnings from working with Rohingya residing in refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Myanmar Bangladesh Migration Governance Gender Conflict Response Borderlands

Blog

23rd March 2022

What are the Causes of Somaliland’s Drought Crisis?

Ahmed M. Musa

This blog is the first in a series published by the Rift Valley Institute to help understand the causes of the drought-related crisis in the Somali re...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Borderlands

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15th December 2021

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Fall 2021

Joint bulletin from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center about recent research and activities.

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3rd December 2021

What the Taliban’s Rise to Power Means for the Mobility of A...

Haroun Rahimi

Haroun Rahimi, from the American University of Afghanistan, explores the multidirectional impact that the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has had on...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Afghanistan Migration Governance

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1st December 2021

Can Ethiopia Avert Deep Turmoil and Prioritize Peace?

Ahmed Soliman

Ethiopia’s devastating civil war recently entered into its second year and, to achieve peace, both sides in the conflict need to accept some difficult...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

Blog

12th November 2021

Reversing the Military Coup in Sudan

Ahmed Soliman

As an entrenched military elite tries to protect extensive economic and political interests despite no public support, parts of the old regime are rea...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

20th October 2021

Iran’s Fuel Shipment to Lebanon Requires Regional Policy Shi...

Lina Khatib

The Iran fuel shipment to Lebanon was significant not because of its size but because of what it signals about regional conflict.

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

14th September 2021

“The border is a semi-autonomous place where people can mobi...

A conversation with Joseph Diing Majok in South Sudan on his scholarship-winning research under the XCEPT programme.

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Governance Borderlands

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25th August 2021

Unfinished Business in Daraa

Armenak Tokmajyan

Regime forces are staging a comeback in southern Syria, and this time Russia may be helping matters.

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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Podcast

21st July 2021

Political Unrest Unsettles Myanmar’s Borderlands

Tabea Campbell Pauli

When the Myanmar military reclaimed power in February after a decade of democratic government, it disrupted the delicate peace process with Myanmar’s ...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Newsletter

23rd June 2021

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Spring 2021...

Joint bulletin from the X-Border Local Research Network about recent research and activities from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malc...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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26th April 2021

Sailors Without a Sea

Armenak Tokmajyan, Laith Qerbaa

Jordan’s bahhara have suffered from a closed border with Syria, but efforts to resume informal trade ties continue.

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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Economies Borderlands

Podcast

10th March 2021

Conversations with RVI Researchers: Joseph Diing Majok and N...

Joseph Diing, Nicki Kindersley,

RVI’s Magnus Taylor speaks with RVI researchers, Joseph Diing Majok and Nicki Kindersley, about their latest report, “Breaking Out of the Borderlands:...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Borderlands

Blog

21st January 2021

A Senseless Silencing

Sherif Mohyeldeen

By impeding research, Egypt curtails knowledge that can help resolve crises, especially in border areas.

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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Podcast

13th January 2021

Displaced Tastes: In Conversation with Elizabeth Nyibol

Elizabeth Nyibol

Displaced Tastes is a collaborative research project run by the Rift Valley Institute and the Catholic University of South Sudan as part of the X-Bord...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Borderlands

Blog

22nd October 2020

Permission to Kill

Armenak Tokmajyan

The rules of what is deemed acceptable political behavior are constantly shifting in Syria, with perilous consequences.

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Middle East and North Africa Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Organised Crime Governance Conflict Dynamics

Blog

2nd October 2020

A Fluid Frontier

Kheder Khaddour, Manhal Bareesh

Turkey is altering the nature of Syrian border areas, perhaps presaging more far-reaching steps.

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Middle East and North Africa Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Video

2nd September 2020

COVID and Conflict in Myanmar’s Borderlands: A View from the...

The Covid-19 crisis has once again focused attention on political fragmentation in Myanmar, especially along ethnic divides.

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Governance Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics

Blog

6th July 2020

COVID-19 in the Horn of Africa: How Can Aid Help Mobile Popu...

Freddie Carver

Aid providers in the Horn of Africa have always struggled to adapt their systems and models to the simple fact that people move from place to place. D...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Blog

18th June 2020

The War Comes Home

Ahmed Nagi

The Yemen conflict has affected Saudi border areas and is changing the public’s thinking in the kingdom.

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Middle East and North Africa Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

3rd June 2020

Beyond the Line in the Sand

Armenak Tokmajyan, Walid Al-Nofal

Syria’s conflict has transformed the conditions of tribal clan notables who have sought refuge in Jordan.

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Middle East and North Africa Migration Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

3rd June 2020

A Fluid Frontier

Kheder Khaddour, Manhal Bareesh

Turkey is altering the nature of Syrian border areas, perhaps presaging more far-reaching steps.

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Middle East and North Africa Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Video

15th April 2020

The Middle East’s Newest Front

Michael Young

In an interview, Harith Hasan and Kheder Khaddour discuss their recent paper on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

15th April 2020

Women for Peace in the “Land of Promise”

Wahida A. Abdullah,

Mindanao, despite its legacy as a strife-ridden region, is still known to us as the “Land of Promise.”

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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

14th April 2020

Peace and the Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict i...

Adam Burke

Disasters and crises—floods, earthquakes, wars, and of course pandemics—shine an unforgiving light on society’s problems and tensions. As the Covid-19...

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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

10th February 2020

Divided, Yemen is Falling

Ahmed Nagi

The country’s suffering has been exacerbated by the rise of internal borders, from which militias have greatly benefited.

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Middle East and North Africa Organised Crime Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

5th February 2020

Mapping the Rohingya Diaspora: Lessons From the Camps

Kawsher Ahamed, Rezaun Nahid Mercy

A violent campaign of persecution has driven an exodus of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority from the northern state of Rakhine into neighboring count...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Migration Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

22nd January 2020

Afghanistan’s Borderlands: Unruly, Unruled, and Central to P...

In Games without Rules, author and former Asia Foundation colleague Tamim Ansary argues that bringing rural Afghanistan under centralized rule has bee...

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South Asia and Southeast Asia Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

7th December 2019

How to Survive South Sudan’s Monetized Economy

Joseph Diing Majok

South Sudan’s borderland region with Sudan, in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal, is a hard place to make a living. Jobs are scarce, livelihoods insecure and mo...

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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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18th November 2019

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Fall 2019

Joint bulletin from the X-Border Local research Network about recent research and activities from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Carn...

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26th September 2019

Boundary Disputes

Harith Hasan

As its authority has weakened, the Iraqi central government’s control over its borders has also eroded.

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2nd September 2019

Much More Than a Border

Kheder Khaddour

Albukamal and Qaim lie on a Syrian-Iraqi boundary that has had regional implications for decades.

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6th August 2019

How is Puntland Coping with Yemen’s Fishing Boom?

Khalif Abdirahman

Review of research carried out in Baargal on the eastern side of Cape Guardafui; Bareeda, on the north coast, and Xaabo.

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22nd July 2019

When Less May Mean More

Ahmed Nagi

The United Arab Emirates is reducing its forces in Yemen, but remains the most powerful actor in the south.

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27th June 2019

Where the Periphery Dominates

Harith Hasan

In the Iraqi governorate of Nineveh, contestation between its capital Mosul and rural communities sits alongside other ethnic, religious and sectarian...

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11th June 2019

Self-Propelled Conflict

Michael Young

Carnegie’s Ahmed Nagi discusses his recent trip to Yemen and shares his impressions of the Houthis’ expansion.

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9th April 2019

A Different Type of Alliance

Anouar Boukhars

The G5 Sahel Joint Force shows that improvised security initiatives are becoming more common in Africa.

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22nd March 2019

Oman’s Boiling Yemeni Border

Ahmed Nagi

The Yemen war has opened a subtle but acute season of popular discontent and regional rivalry in Mahra, stuck in a three-players game among Saudis, E...

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8th March 2019