Iraq’s disputed territories remain caught between competing authorities, patronage networks and unresolved claims to power – dynamics that continue to...
Join us on 1 October for a webinar exploring how communities across South Sudan’s borderlands navigate conflict, shape or are shaped by authority and ...
Checkpoints are more than barriers to movement in South Sudan. They have become central to how markets function, how resources circulate and how power...
The final XCEPT conference will bring together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to examine nine years of cross-border conflict research and...
As the Houthis seek to expand their influence across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, new connections are emerging between conflicts in Yemen, Somali...
How the Houthi movement has developed advanced weapons capabilities through global supply chains, and what implications this has for regional security...
How do checkpoints shape governance, trade and conflict in Yemen, and what can their operation reveal about the competing political orders that have e...
How is authority exercised along the movement routes that traverse the Sahara, and what does control over mobility reveal about power, trade and gover...
War is conventionally seen as a struggle for territory, but across contexts from Afghanistan to the Congo and Myanmar, the real frontlines run along r...
What happens when armed groups no longer depend on supply lines or state backing, but operate as self‑sustaining ecosystems embedded in the global eco...
