A brief overview of the main Shi‘a Islamist actors involved in Axis of Resistance politics in Iraq, examining their embeddedness within the state appa...
The Minsk process, led by France and Germany, began in mid-2014 in response to Russian military aggression against Ukraine. In early 2015, it achieved...
The Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 aimed to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict. This paper examines the establishment of the Madrid/Washington process...
The project is based on case studies. This article, part of the “Mediation in Regionalized Conflicts: Lessons from Recent Peace Processes” project, an...
This series of essays considers the transnational dynamics of authority and violence to explain how an armed conflict in one locality exists in a tran...
Six years after the forced displacement of over a million Rohingya people from Myanmar, the day-to-day support required by Rohingya refugees and humanitarian actors in Bangladesh remains a challenge for the country’s government.
Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics can help understand and ...
This paper examines how Iraq and Jordan are addressing the Captagon trade within their borders, outlines current gaps in the literature on Captagon, a...
This XCEPT article investigates what drives individuals to join and remain loyal to armed groups amidst the chaos of the Syrian wars by focusing on th...
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...
This XCEPT policy brief examines how the kidnapping in Arsal, Lebanon affects victims’ families and shapes their attitudes towards the state, justice,...
This XCEPT research report examines why western support to northeastern Syria has been successful in enabling short-term stability but has struggled t...
