Ethiopia’s devastating civil war recently entered into its second year and, to achieve peace, both sides in the conflict need to accept some difficult...
This study examines access to justice for gender-based violence in the family and criminal law systems of federal Iraq. It finds that it remains near ...
As an entrenched military elite tries to protect extensive economic and political interests despite no public support, parts of the old regime are rea...
Regularly Irregular focuses on the Gaashamo corridor—a series of small border crossings between Ethiopia and Somaliland—to analyze the everyday govern...
Lasanod: City at the Margins examines the economic and political consequences of this ambiguous borderland status, which has led to new forms of reven...
Joint bulletin from the X-Border Local Research Network about recent research and activities from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malc...
This research addresses the reasons behind the failure of Basra’s local government in providing services to its citizens and analyses the impact of th...
This paper suggests that the upcoming elections in Iraq will not be game-changers, but merely support the extension of the current domination of polit...
This report focuses on the borderland region between Sudan and Ethiopia, using gold-mining and trade to examine transnational flows of people and comm...
The Iraqi-Syrian border continues to be geopolitically restless. Kurdish parties have taken advantage of central government weaknesses to increase t...
