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Borderlands

Communities that sit in conflict-affected borderlands are often subject to a complex combination of cultural and geographical factors. XCEPT’s research into these conflict areas explores local governance, other influential actors, and the alternative institutions and strategies that borderland communities rely upon to protect themselves against violence and abuse. It also examines how economic transitions, markets, and trade are affected by changes in the social and political context of a borderland community.

Below you can find and download publications by XCEPT partners that investigate the unique contexts of conflict-affected borderlands.

Research report

11th February 2025
During the past decade, northern Kenya’s peripheral border counties have become key to the central state’s political and economic agenda. Cross-border...

Research report

31st January 2025
Infrastructure development and shifting political conditions at the Kenya–Ethiopia border have effects on trade, conflict, and gender dynamics. This r...

Briefing paper

24th January 2025
Gender-based violence and insecurity have increased in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The deteriorating security situation and protracted r...

Article

19th December 2024
This XCEPT article examining the recent conflict through the lens of interactions between displaced families from Hezbollah-linked regions and their h...

Publication

21st November 2024
This series of essays considers the transnational dynamics of authority and violence to explain how an armed conflict in one locality exists in a tran...

Article

21st November 2024
Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics can help understand and ...

SPOTLIGHT

XCEPT Workshop: Local, People-Focused Policymaking

26th October 2022
Addressing securitization in conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia
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Blog

17th October 2024
In an interview, Kheder Khaddour and Armenak Tokmajyan discuss the country’s borders and why they have remained intact.

Publication

2nd October 2024
This report assesses the impact of war on Sudan’s higher education and academic research and how these institutions have, to some degree, continued t...

Publication

30th September 2024
This XCEPT policy brief examines how the kidnapping in Arsal, Lebanon affects victims’ families and shapes their attitudes towards the state, justice,...

Research report

25th September 2024
This XCEPT research report examines why western support to northeastern Syria has been successful in enabling short-term stability but has struggled t...

Briefing paper

25th September 2024
This policy brief presents key findings and policy analysis and recommendations from the XCEPT Research Report ‘Challenges to effective stabilisation ...

Research report

10th September 2024
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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