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21st February 2025
Migrant smuggling and trafficking has flourished through Libya since its 2011 conflict. This article explains how this happened and why European polic...

Research report

19th February 2025
Years of conflict and natural disasters in the Sudan-South Sudan borderlands have created a displaced population reliant on low-paid, risky work, and ...

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...

Article

31st January 2025
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...

Article

23rd December 2024
The kingdom aims to foster warmer international relationships by moving away from a religious approach that earned the royal family legitimacy; howeve...

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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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...

Research report

25th September 2024
This XCEPT research report examines why western support to northeastern Syria has been successful in enabling short-term stability but has struggled t...

Briefing paper

25th September 2024
This policy brief presents key findings and policy analysis and recommendations from the XCEPT Research Report ‘Challenges to effective stabilisation ...

Research report

10th September 2024
In Syria’s border regions, changes in demographics, economics, and security mean that an inter-Syrian peace process will require consensus among main ...

Blog

4th September 2024
As humanitarian and reconstruction efforts are helping an Iraqi city deal with its violent past, one tree-planting project is helping to safeguard its...

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...

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