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21st November 2024

How supply chains fuel transnational conflict in the Middle ...

Renad Mansour, Hayder Al-Shakeri,
Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics can help understand and ...
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Yemen Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Lebanon Iraq Iran Conflict Response Borderlands

Article

30th October 2024

The end of the ‘revolution’ (al-thawra) but not revolutionar...

Rahaf Aldoughli,
This XCEPT article investigates what drives individuals to join and remain loyal to armed groups amidst the chaos of the Syrian wars by focusing on th...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Violent Extremism Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

25th September 2024

Challenges to effective stabilisation assistance in northeas...

William Smith
This XCEPT research report examines why western support to northeastern Syria has been successful in enabling short-term stability but has struggled t...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Governance Conflict Response Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

10th September 2024

Borders Without a Nation: Syria, Outside Powers, and Open-En...

Kheder Khaddour, Armenak Tokmajyan,
In Syria’s border regions, changes in demographics, economics, and security mean that an inter-Syrian peace process will require consensus among main ...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Governance 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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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

26th March 2024

A flashpoint looms in southern Syria

Armenak Tokmajyan
As the influence of the Assad regime and Russia declines, Iran is emerging as the main actor, which could provoke a major Israeli intervention.
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Jordan Iran Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Blog

22nd March 2024

Borders have undermined Syrian sovereignty

Kheder Khaddour
A forthcoming Carnegie paper will argue that to understand Syria’s future, we will have to focus on the country’s peripheries.
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Jordan Iraq Iran Governance Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Article

21st March 2024

Why Iranian entrenchment in southern Syria worries neighbour...

Kheder Khaddour, Armenak Tokmajyan
The Syrian regime has struggled to govern Syria’s south, while the Ukraine war has weakened Russia’s influence, making both more reliant on Tehran and...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Jordan Iran Conflict Economies Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Podcast

1st September 2023

Peripheral Vision: Localising Conflict Responses in Conteste...

Nathan Shea, Tasnia Khandaker, Armenak Tokmajyan, Abdirahman Edle Ali
How does the global push for aid localisation apply to the research sector? In this podcast, The Asia Foundation, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle ...
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Briefing paper

28th July 2023

Men and psychosocial support services programming

Heidi Riley
This briefing note explores humanitarian responses to conflict-related trauma amongst men and boys, and finds that addressing male trauma supports ind...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Iraq Gender Conflict Response

Research report

6th April 2023

Lessons on supporting disaster relief and reconstruction in ...

Luke Kelly
This rapid evidence synthesis provides evidence, guidance, and lessons on disaster relief and reconstruction in fragile and conflict-affected situatio...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Governance Conflict Response

Podcast

31st March 2023

Conflict Supply Chains across Lebanon and Syria 

Lina Khatib, Leah de Haan
Find out more about the impact of supply chains and powerful conflict actors on people’s livelihoods in this Twitter Space recording.
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Lebanon Transnational Flows Conflict Economies

Article

10th August 2022

Border Nation: The Reshaping of the Syrian-Turkish Borderlan...

Armenak Tokmajyan, Kheder Khaddour
After a decade of civil war, Syria’s border with Turkey is divided. Yet long-term stability will require a peace agreement that treats the border as a...
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Syria Middle East and North Africa Middle East Governance Conflict Response Borderlands

Blog

22nd July 2022

Liars, Guns, and Money

Michael Young
In this interview, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center’s non-resident scholar Armenak Tokmajyan talks about Sarmada, Syria’s border with Turke...
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