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2nd May 2025

The ides of November: navigating the shifting sands of Iraq’...

Inna Rudolf, Douglas A. Ollivant
As Iraq gears up for its pivotal parliamentary elections, regional volatility, the fracturing Iran-led resistance axis, and unprecedented divisions wi...
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Middle East and North Africa Iraq Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Governance

Article

29th April 2025

Taking the bull by the horns: policy report from the project...

Laurie Nathan, Michael Aeby, Pavel Baev, Antoni Sastre Bel, Kristian Berg Harpviken, Jørgen Jensehaugen, Júlia Palik, Øystein Rolandsen, Laura Camila Suárez, Pinar Tank
The regionalisation of intra-state conflict, a significant trend in international peace and security, is worrying because external military interventi...
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Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics

Briefing paper

16th April 2025

From peacekeeping to proxy wars: impacts of the current conf...

Annie Bunting, Heather Tasker, SOFEPADI
The ongoing conflict has resulted in widespread forced displacement that has included alarming levels of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and s...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics

Briefing paper

2nd April 2025

Gendered mobility dynamics and human security risks in irreg...

AnnaSophia Gallagher, Christianne Aikins, Valeria Spagnolo
Irregular maritime migration from Lebanon has risen dramatically over the last three years, driven by compounded political, socio-economic, and securi...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Migration Gender

Article

1st April 2025

Isolating Peace Talks from a Complex Neighborhood: The US-Ta...

Kristian Berg Harpviken
The US-Taliban negotiations in 2018-20 took place without a formal mediator, nor did it involve Afghanistan’s official government or any of its neighb...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Governance Conflict Dynamics

Article

1st April 2025

Mechanisms of securitisation and counter-securitisation on t...

Patta Scott-Villiers
This community action research examines the mechanisms of securitisation and counter-securitisation that have affected the Karimojong and Turkana peop...
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Briefing paper

31st March 2025

Thinking about Borderlands: Observations and implications fr...

Hannah Stogdon
Observations derived from the XCEPT programme’s research, and thoughts on the future direction borderlands research might take.
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Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Research report

31st March 2025

Why and How We Wrote a Model Law for Refugees in Bangladesh ...

Samira Manzur, Nafisa Tabassum, Al Muktadir Elahi Esmam, M Sanjeeb Hossain
Years of research on the experiences and perspectives of Rohingya communities in Cox’s Bazar, drawing attention to governance challenges and the need ...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Bangladesh Migration Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Briefing paper

31st March 2025

Fragilities and dispossession in the climate-affected border...

Tasnia Khandaker Prova, Era Robbani, Humuan Kabir
This policy brief accompanies the paper “We no longer know of the peace we once had”.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Bangladesh Migration Governance

Research report

31st March 2025

 “We no longer know of the peace we once had”: fragilities a...

Tasnia Khandaker Prova, Era Robbani, Humaun Kabir
Bangladesh faces huge climate challenges with increasingly frequent and extreme weather events which intersect in complex ways with social and politic...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Bangladesh Migration Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Briefing paper

31st March 2025

Myanmar’s Northern Borderlands: A History of Myanmar-China R...

Dan Seng Lawn
How have historical patterns in China-Myanmar relations shaped today’s conflict dynamics and political developments in Myanmar’s northern borderlands?...
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia Myanmar Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Briefing paper

31st March 2025

Localisation of Research and Evidence Generation in Conflict...

Zaki Ullah, Pamela Combinido
Practical lessons and guidance from the X-Border Local Research Network (LRN)’s experience on supporting equitable, locally embedded research in fragi...
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia South Asia Sahel Middle East and North Africa Middle East Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

31st March 2025

Local impacts of foreign interests in Timor-Leste 

Lisa Denney, Gobie Rajalingam, Aderito Soares
How do foreign actors pursue their geopolitical interests in Timor-Leste and shape outcomes at the local level? 
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Southeast Asia South Asia and Southeast Asia Governance Conflict Dynamics

Research report

31st March 2025

The reinvention of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan

Iftikhar Firdous
How the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), under Noor Wali Mehsud’s leadership, strategically reinvented itself—organizationally, financially, and ideol...
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Conflict Dynamics

Research report

31st March 2025

Checkpoints, transnational trade and conflict

Peer Schouten
Drawing on existing literature and case studies, this paper argues that checkpoints along transnational trade routes are central to conflict economies...
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Governance Conflict Dynamics

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