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Conflict Dynamics

Conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Asia intersect through flows of people, weapons and resources, creating intricate cross-border conflict systems. These knit the formal and informal, licit and illicit in ways that empower armed actors, enmesh conflict with crime and violent extremism, and ensnare local communities in the network of activities that sustain conflict. XCEPT research on conflict dynamics sheds light on these conflict systems, the transnational networks that sustain them, and how affected communities cope with protracted crisis.

Below you can find and download XCEPT research that helps shed light on these complex conflict dynamics.

Article

1st April 2025
The US-Taliban negotiations in 2018-20 took place without a formal mediator, nor did it involve Afghanistan’s official government or any of its neighb...

Article

1st April 2025
This community action research examines the mechanisms of securitisation and counter-securitisation that have affected the Karimojong and Turkana peop...

Research report

31st March 2025
Years of research on the experiences and perspectives of Rohingya communities in Cox’s Bazar, drawing attention to governance challenges and the need ...

Research report

31st March 2025
Bangladesh faces huge climate challenges with increasingly frequent and extreme weather events which intersect in complex ways with social and politic...

Briefing paper

31st March 2025
How have historical patterns in China-Myanmar relations shaped today’s conflict dynamics and political developments in Myanmar’s northern borderlands?...

Briefing paper

31st March 2025
Practical lessons and guidance from the X-Border Local Research Network (LRN)’s experience on supporting equitable, locally embedded research in fragi...

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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Research report

31st March 2025
How do foreign actors pursue their geopolitical interests in Timor-Leste and shape outcomes at the local level? 

Research report

31st March 2025
How the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), under Noor Wali Mehsud’s leadership, strategically reinvented itself—organizationally, financially, and ideol...

Research report

31st March 2025
Drawing on existing literature and case studies, this paper argues that checkpoints along transnational trade routes are central to conflict economies...

Article

31st March 2025
Communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict – including civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurge...

Article

28th March 2025
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...

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