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Conflict Economies

Research report

20th August 2025
Communities in the borderlands of Coastal West Africa are part of a complex cross-border socio-economic network, one that is threatened by both violen...

Working paper

23rd July 2025
Addressing the political economy of cattle rustling and smuggling between Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Togo.

Working paper

23rd July 2025
Fuel smuggling in Ghana and Burkina Faso is a high volume, cross-border activity with both licit and illicit aspects that are intrinsically linked to ...

Research report

16th June 2025
As geopolitical fragmentation deepens, conflicts are increasing in complexity and number, and internationalising in new ways as states, armed groups, ...

Event

12th June 2025
Following the conclusion of the Chatham House XCEPT research initiative, this event unpacks key findings and explores how policymakers can better resp...

Research report

28th March 2025
In the Mandera triangle—a pastoralist region encompassing the point at which the borders of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia meet—the reality of local and ...

Research report

28th March 2025
While digital finance—including mobile money—has developed unevenly across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, such technologies are nevertheless transformin...

Research report

26th March 2025
Gold has long been a conflict commodity in Sudan and continues to be the subject of intense competition between national and subnational military acto...

Briefing paper

26th March 2025
This brief contains policy considerations and implications resulting from violent clashes between Iranian and Afghan border forces in May 2023.

Blog

26th March 2025
Syria’s new government has moved quickly to curtail Hezbollah’s movements of weapons, money, contraband, and people through Syria.

Research report

24th March 2025
The Horn of Africa is a region marked by complex infrastructural interdependencies, where the decline and emergence of trade corridors continue to res...

Article

21st March 2025
Since 2017, Tunisia has experienced intensified climate change effects, including severe drought. President Kais Saied’s governance failures have only...

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