XCEPT Research Fund
The XCEPT Research Fund enables local and international researchers and research organisations to develop evidence on conflict and peace.
The XCEPT Research Fund enables local and international researchers and research organisations to develop evidence on conflict and peace.
The XCEPT Research Fund provides opportunities for individual researchers and research organisations or institutions to conduct innovative research on how conflicts connect across borders, and how to improve responses to conflict. The Fund supports activities across different areas:
Through the Fund, we aim to support local research networks through partnerships, capacity building and formal grants to ensure that our research is rooted in local expertise and insight.
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This research uses a transdisciplinary approach to study water and land conflicts in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, focusing on women’s roles in resourc...
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Research investigating the experiences of cross-border “war-women” abandoned by Ugandan soldiers, and their impact on conflict dynamics.
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This research examines the role of women in reducing, preventing, and resolving conflict in the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands, and how conflicts affect t...
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Research looking at how gender norms, identities, and roles affect and are affected by conflict dynamics in the Mozambique-Tanzania borderlands.
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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...
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This research deepens the evidence available on gender-based violence affecting displaced Rohingya women and girls and investigates their strategies f...
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This research maps out patterns of gender-based violence along the South Sudan-Sudan border, a unique context of repeated displacement and protracted ...
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Research examining the vulnerability of women and girls in Africa’s Great Lakes region to SGBV by state and non-state forces.
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Research on technology’s role in investigations of sexual and gender-based violence during cross-border conflicts, with lessons from Ukraine, Iraq/Syr...
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Research investigating the gendered impacts of ethnic violence in Myanmar before and since the 2021 coup.
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Research examining how humanitarian interventions affect the women and girls bearing the brunt of Sudan’s brutal war.
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The gendered impacts of conflict exposure in origin countries on behaviour and wellbeing among refugees in Jordan are the focus of this research.
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Research examining how internal displacement for women and girls in the Myanmar borderland has gendered effects on health access.
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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...
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Research exploring how the rules that govern cross-border trade in Afghanistan have changed since the Taliban takeover.
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Community action research on security and governance in the border regions of Uganda and Kenya.
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This project focuses on international mediation in intra-state conflicts that have significant regional conflict dimensions.
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How should climate response strategies be customised for local conditions in conflict settings?
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This award supported the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in researching governance in Iraq and how it relates to conflicts pas...
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Research exploring conflict dynamics in the tri-border area of Chad, Libya, and Sudan, including the intersection of armed actors, gold mining, and mi...