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Research report

24th July 2024

Tracing the ‘continuum of violence’ between Nigeria and Liby...

Leah de Haan, Tim Eaton, Iro Aghedo
This XCEPT research paper from Chatham House explores how the movement of people from Edo State fuels the Libyan conflict economy
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North Africa Middle East and North Africa Libya Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Organised Crime Migration

Blog

22nd July 2024

Q&A with Nils Mallock on his XCEPT research

Nils Mallock
XCEPT  researcher Nils Mallock on his experience researching the psychological causes of violent and high-risk political action in Iraq and Lebanon.
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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour

Video

15th July 2024

How to conduct research in conflict-affected areas

Tabea Campbell Pauli, Joseph Diing, Kheder Khaddour
Researchers working in borderland regions of Asia, the Middle East and Africa share their experiences and approaches to conducting fieldwork.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Coronavirus Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Event

29th April 2024

X-Border Local Research Network Bangkok Workshop

Researchers from across the Local Research Network gathered in Bangkok for a workshop hosted by The Asia Foundation.
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Yemen Syria Sudan South Sudan South Asia and Southeast Asia Pakistan Myanmar Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Ethiopia Bangladesh Algeria Gender Borderlands

Event report

15th July 2024

X-Border Local Research Network Bangkok Workshop

Researchers from across the Local Research Network gathered in Bangkok for a workshop hosted by The Asia Foundation.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Gender Borderlands

Article

9th July 2024

Border Traffic: How Syria Uses Captagon to Gain Leverage Ove...

Hesham Alghannam
Bashar al-Assad’s regime has used the drug partly as a means of ensuring that Syria is reintegrated into the Arab world, allowing its leadership to re...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Organised Crime Borderlands

Blog

2nd July 2024

The rise of Soldiers of God: is Beirut back to the time of t...

Mohamed el Kari
XCEPT researchers at ICSR consider whether the heightened presence of the Soldiers of God militia in Lebanon is a new force, or an echo of old histori...
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Middle East and North Africa Violent Extremism

Blog

6th June 2024

The role of transnational networks in Kurdish migration to t...

Zmkan Ali Saleem, Hayder Al-Shakeri
How the continued existence of transnational smuggling networks highlight current issues in addressing and tackling the drivers and sources of conflic...
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Research report

25th April 2024

Nimroz and Samangan: A comparative case study of shifts in A...

David Mansfield
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...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies

Blog

16th April 2024

Green Mosul: how trees helped a city recover after conflict

Omar Mohammed
In this interview, Dr Omar Mohammed discusses the Green Mosul initiative, which was launched by the Mosul Eye Association in 2021 and leaves a legacy ...
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Middle East and North Africa Iraq Violent and Peaceful Behaviour

Podcast

9th April 2024

Peripheral Vision: Trade Disruptions and Instability in Frag...

Kheder Khaddour, Azeema Cheema, Ahmed Musa, Tabea Campbell Pauli
Global trade and the transnational flow of people and goods can be negatively impacted by surging tensions or violence in fragile border regions. In t...
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Middle East and North Africa Transnational Flows

Podcast

21st March 2024

On Geopolitics: Sinjar – an arena for other conflicts?

XCEPT researchers from Chatham House discuss how the Sinjar region is ever-more entangled in regional conflicts, and consider what can be done to ensu...
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Article

21st March 2024

Lebanese dramas capture the moral quandaries of everyday lif...

Inna Rudolf
In Lebanon, the plotlines and entanglements portrayed on the small screen echo the truth of corrupt systems that work against the everyday Lebanese po...
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Event

27th March 2024

Changing the rules of the game: How the Taliban has upended ...

Join us on 27 March, 14:00 GMT to discuss changes to economic power in Afghanistan.
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Photo Essay

14th March 2024

Photo-essay: A week in Iraq

Inna Rudolf
In 2023, Dr Inna Rudolf, Dr Craig Larkin, and Dr Rajan Basra visited Iraq to understand more about the dynamics of the reconstruction process and to f...
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