Women who engage in cross-border trade in conflict play crucial social and economic roles in their families and communities: this paper examines how t...
South Sudan may be the youngest country in the world, but it’s already undergone a huge amount of violence – and the ongoing civil war in Sudan looks ...
How the continued existence of transnational smuggling networks highlight current issues in addressing and tackling the drivers and sources of conflic...
XCEPT Research Fellow Patta Scott-Villiers considers what counts as ‘good evidence’ within the context of war, peace and instability, and explores met...
In the latest episode of the XCEPT Breaking Cycles of Violence miniseries, Dr Omar Mohammed and Dr Marc Zimmerman, interviewed by Dr Nafees Hamid (Kin...
Clara May considers how building work and reconstruction in Beirut remains founded upon ideological and historical divides, and asks whether reconcili...
This XCEPT research paper from the Rift Valley Institute highlights the significant changes in internal dynamics in Sudan and Ethiopia since late 2022...
Understanding the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations is critical. This paper unpacks the key question: why are some operations successful while ...
In their latest report, Conciliation Resources argue that locally based understanding of the roots and manifestations of violence, and of the foundati...
This XCEPT research paper from Chatham House explores how the sector has become entangled in local and transnational conflict, and how policymakers ne...
New research by David Mansfield and Alcis explores the extent to which the Taliban has concentrated power in the hands of Pashtun fighters and how the...
