Blogs

After six days stationary in the Suez Canal, the Ever Given was finally unstuck. While its name will soon become a piece of trivia about blocking one ...

Jordan’s bahhara have suffered from a closed border with Syria, but efforts to resume informal trade ties continue.

The new coronavirus is spreading into conflict-affected states. The pandemic and efforts to contain it are much more likely to aggravate and multiply ...

RVI’s Magnus Taylor speaks with RVI researchers, Joseph Diing Majok and Nicki Kindersley, about their latest report, “Breaking Out of the Borderlands:...

By impeding research, Egypt curtails knowledge that can help resolve crises, especially in border areas.

Displaced Tastes is a collaborative research project run by the Rift Valley Institute and the Catholic University of South Sudan as part of the X-Bord...

Because of Covid-19 restrictions, researchers have had to find alternative ways of getting information.

How political, security and socio-economic developments affect the people living in contested borderlands and, reversely, how border dynamics shape ch...

The rules of what is deemed acceptable political behavior are constantly shifting in Syria, with perilous consequences.

Turkey is altering the nature of Syrian border areas, perhaps presaging more far-reaching steps.

Complex crises tend to expose our worst faults and bare our best-kept biases. They also turn old inequalities into urgent problems, as crisis governan...

As the scope of the fighting in Ma’rib intensifies, the signs of an attritional conflict without end are strengthening.