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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

Blog

31st March 2025

Assad’s fall ends drug smuggling – but trafficking to Jordan...

Haid Haid
Syria’s Captagon smugglers have adapted following the collapse of the Assad regime.
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Jordan Transnational Flows Organised Crime Conflict Dynamics

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30th March 2025

Beyond the unity of arenas: Understanding the agency and dom...

Clara May
Why we should challenge the idea that Shi’a militants are just Iranian proxies
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Middle East and North Africa Middle East Iraq Violent and Peaceful Behaviour

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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

Video

28th March 2025

The Legacy of the Local Research Network

Nathan Shea, 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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South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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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

The lingering scars of war: understanding social well-being ...

Tilman Brück, Francisca Castro, Hadi Jaafar, Dorian Lötzer, Wolfgang Stojetz
What can be done to provide better mental health support to refugee communities?
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Middle East and North Africa Migration Gender Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics

Blog

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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26th March 2025

Hezbollah’s smuggling lifeline: can Syria’s new authorities ...

Haid Haid
Syria’s new government has moved quickly to curtail Hezbollah’s movements of weapons, money, contraband, and people through Syria.
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Transnational Flows Organised Crime Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics

Blog

24th March 2025

The Struggle Over Mahra

Ibrahim Jalal
The potential for rising tension in the Yemeni governorate worries those on both sides its borders.
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Yemen Middle East and North Africa Conflict Dynamics

Podcast

20th March 2025

The national and transnational dynamics of Iraq’s Islamic re...

Craig Larkin, Renad Mansour, Inna Rudolf
King’s College London’s War Studies podcast examines Islamic resistance in Iraq and its Iran linkages
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Middle East and North Africa Iraq Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Transnational Flows

Blog

20th March 2025

Lebanon’s New Breed of Drug Barons

Michael Young
In an interview, Mohanad Hage Ali talks about the Captagon trade’s impact on state institutions.
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Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Transnational Flows Organised Crime Conflict Dynamics

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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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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Migration Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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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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Sudan South Sudan Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Conflict Response Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

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