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XCEPT Research Fund

The XCEPT Research Fund enables local and international researchers and research organisations to develop evidence on conflict and peace.

The XCEPT Research Fund provides opportunities for individual researchers and research organisations or institutions to conduct innovative research on how conflicts connect across borders, and how to improve responses to conflict. The Fund supports activities across different areas:

  • Conflict response, examining how to break the confines of state-centric policy and planning to better address the transnational dimensions of conflict.
  • Emerging issues and geographies, with research focusing on priority issues and geographies, including gender and social inclusion.
  • Satellite imagery/data procurement and analysis, working with our partner Satellite Applications Catapult.
  • Data fusion technology and innovative research methods, to bring new ways of working to conflict research.
  • Responsive research, focused on rapid delivery, policy-relevant research that responds to crises.
  • Core partner support, qualitative and quantitative field data collection to support research by XCEPT core partners Chatham House and Conciliation Resources.

Through the Fund, we aim to support local research networks through partnerships, capacity building and formal grants to ensure that our research is rooted in local expertise and insight.

 

Calls for proposals

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Call for Researchers: TRACE – Checkpoints, Conflict, and the...

This call is now closed. XCEPT invites applications from researchers to contribute to a comparative study on the roles and dynamics of checkpoints in ...

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Call for concept notes – Future Horn, future Sudans: multipl...

This call is now closed. XCEPT is commissioning research that explores the rise of multiple and competing centres in the Horn of Africa and beyond.

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Call for concept notes – Climate change, informal trade, and...

This call is now closed. XCEPT is commissioning research on the relationship between climate change, informal trade networks, and instability in confl...

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Ongoing and completed fund awards

FUND AWARD

Women on the Margins of Resource Management: Water and Land ...

This research uses a transdisciplinary approach to study water and land conflicts in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, focusing on women’s roles in resourc...

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Survivors, Collaborators, or Peacemakers?: Cross-border mili...

Research investigating the experiences of cross-border “war-women” abandoned by Ugandan soldiers, and their impact on conflict dynamics.   

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Role of pastoralist women and girls in preventing, reducing ...

This research examines the role of women in reducing, preventing, and resolving conflict in the Kenya-Ethiopia borderlands, and how conflicts affect t...

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The Gendered Dimensions of Cross-Border Conflict in Tanzania...

Research looking at how gender norms, identities, and roles affect and are affected by conflict dynamics in the Mozambique-Tanzania borderlands.  

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Gender Dynamics Amidst Parental Struggles (GAPS) during Cris...

Research on radicalism often neglects its effects on young women and girls. This research aims to plug these gaps, feeding into policies to bridge the...

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Mobility, translocality and gendered violence: Everyday live...

This research deepens the evidence available on gender-based violence affecting displaced Rohingya women and girls and investigates their strategies f...

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Examining GBV Patterns and Risks in South Sudan/Sudan’s Repe...

This research maps out patterns of gender-based violence along the South Sudan-Sudan border, a unique context of repeated displacement and protracted ...

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From Peacekeeping to Proxy Wars: Impacts of International Mi...

Research examining the vulnerability of women and girls in Africa’s Great Lakes region to SGBV by state and non-state forces. 

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Using Technology to Improve Investigations of Sexual and Gen...

Research on technology’s role in investigations of sexual and gender-based violence during cross-border conflicts, with lessons from Ukraine, Iraq/Syr...

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