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Conflict Economies

Blog

17th February 2025
This post examines the pressures forcing many displaced people, including children, to seek paid labour to supplement dwindling support mechanisms in ...

Podcast

12th February 2025
Hear from the X-Border Women Research Fellows about what motivates their research project and how they overcome the challenges of doing research in fr...

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

18th November 2024
This paper examines how Iraq and Jordan are addressing the Captagon trade within their borders, outlines current gaps in the literature on Captagon, a...

Blog

15th October 2024
The contestation over gold – and its connection to transnational networks – is becoming a major driver of Ethiopia’s complex conflicts.

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...

Briefing paper

10th September 2024
Empowering communities by enabling cross-border trade, maintaining social cohesion, and prioritising the rebuilding of healthcare and education will r...

Article

1st August 2024
This XCEPT article analyses how Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE have determined that their national security goes beyond their physical b...

Research report

29th July 2024
This XCEPT research paper from Rift Valley Institute explores the informal transborder movement of goods and people in the ‘greater Somali economic sp...

Research report

29th July 2024
This study explores the labour burdens of women in agriculture, based on interviews conducted in Western Bahr al-Ghazal and other areas of Sudan.

Research report

25th April 2024
New research by David Mansfield and Alcis explores the extent to which the Taliban has concentrated power in the hands of Pashtun fighters and how the...

Podcast

9th April 2024
Global trade and the transnational flow of people and goods can be negatively impacted by surging tensions or violence in fragile border regions. In t...

Working paper

27th March 2024
Several developments have contributed to Tunisia’s transformation into a transit point for African migrants, including its porous borders, inconsisten...

Blog

26th March 2024
As the influence of the Assad regime and Russia declines, Iran is emerging as the main actor, which could provoke a major Israeli intervention.

Blog

22nd March 2024
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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