Communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict – including civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurge...
This policy brief provides an overview of water and land conflicts in refugee settings in Uganda and presents policy considerations to mitigate their ...
Saudi Arabia’s concerns about Syria have grown since Assad’s ouster. Türkiye’s expanding presence, Iran’s struggle to regain influence, and Israel’s e...
While the risks faced by women and girls in situations of conflict and displacement are well documented, there has been less analysis of how these eff...
Since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Kachin State, which lies along the Chinese border, has been deeply affected by ongoing civil conflict. This r...
In the Mandera triangle—a pastoralist region encompassing the point at which the borders of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia meet—the reality of local and ...
While digital finance—including mobile money—has developed unevenly across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, such technologies are nevertheless transformin...
Courts and investigative bodies – both international and domestic – are increasingly turning to technology to document sexual and gender-based crimes ...
If we are to fully grasp conflict dynamics and related phenomena in borderland areas—whether that be in Africa or elsewhere—we must look beyond the re...
Forced displacement comes with myriad challenges for those affected. Forcibly displaced populations are deeply impacted by the circumstances that led ...
This briefing paper examines policy considerations around the effects of climate change, specifically reduced water resources in the Helmand River Bas...
How is climate change affecting water resources in the Helmand River Basin, and how might competition for these resources drive conflict in the futute...
Gold has long been a conflict commodity in Sudan and continues to be the subject of intense competition between national and subnational military acto...
