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Can understanding the role that identity plays in encouraging reconciliation or radicalisation, help in mitigating violence in a post-conflict setting...

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Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics

Briefing paper

17th March 2026

Beyond recognition: Research insights to address future chal...

Nils Mallock

Exploring how shifting political realities, territorial fragmentation and psychological dynamics shape the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Palestine Middle East Israel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics

Blog

17th March 2026

Introducing new XCEPT research in Myanmar borderlands

XCEPT’s Myanmar borderlands research explores how sanctions, financial systems and gendered agency shape borderland conflict economies.

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Thailand Southeast Asia South Asia Myanmar India Bangladesh Governance Gender Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

17th March 2026

Introducing new XCEPT research in the Horn of Africa

XCEPT’s Horn of Africa research looks at how evolving political centres, digital systems, urban change and gendered authority are transforming governa...

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Sudan South Sudan Somalia Ethiopia Governance Gender Conflict Economies Borderlands

Blog

17th March 2026

Introducing new XCEPT research in the Levant

XCEPT’s Levant research examines how border governance, climate‑driven adaptation, and illicit networks intersect across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yem...

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Yemen Syria Lebanon Iraq Governance Conflict Economies Climate Change Borderlands

Briefing paper

10th March 2026

Promoting reconciliation: Lessons from the social psychology...

Alexandra Vázquez Botana, Sam Hibbs

Exploring how psychosocial factors shape both the risks of extremism and the possibilities for reconciliation between divided groups

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Middle East Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Dynamics

Working paper

6th March 2026

Wars over checkpoints

Peer Schouten, Erica Gaston, David Mansfield, Shalaka Thakur, Florian Weigand, Joshua Craze, Abubaker Lndi, Olivier Walther, Ibrahim Jalal, Ferenc David Markó, Xu Peng

Nine theses on the politics of roadblocks in conflict-affected borderlands

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Yemen South Sudan Myanmar Libya Democratic Republic of Congo Afghanistan Transnational Flows Conflict Economies Borderlands

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