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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...

Publication

5th December 2024
The project is based on case studies. This article, part of the “Mediation in Regionalized Conflicts: Lessons from Recent Peace Processes” project, an...

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 ...

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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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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...

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...

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.

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