Migrant smuggling and trafficking has flourished through Libya since its 2011 conflict. This article explains how this happened and why European polic...
Years of conflict and natural disasters in the Sudan-South Sudan borderlands have created a displaced population reliant on low-paid, risky work, and ...
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...
During the past decade, northern Kenya’s peripheral border counties have become key to the central state’s political and economic agenda. Cross-border...
After the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, the country’s interim government faces the task of rebuilding the country. Now, foreign countries are...
The kingdom aims to foster warmer international relationships by moving away from a religious approach that earned the royal family legitimacy; howeve...
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...
This XCEPT research report examines why western support to northeastern Syria has been successful in enabling short-term stability but has struggled t...
This policy brief presents key findings and policy analysis and recommendations from the XCEPT Research Report ‘Challenges to effective stabilisation ...
In Syria’s border regions, changes in demographics, economics, and security mean that an inter-Syrian peace process will require consensus among main ...
As humanitarian and reconstruction efforts are helping an Iraqi city deal with its violent past, one tree-planting project is helping to safeguard its...
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...