Coronavirus

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

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...

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...

The Covid-19 crisis has once again focused attention on political fragmentation in Myanmar, especially along ethnic divides.

A coronavirus outbreak in Tachileik has shone a rare spotlight on border-based hotels, KTVs and casinos with links to powerful armed groups, whose ...

Pouring money into health infrastructure will have little effect if qualified doctors have few incentives to stay.

This report examines the history of epidemic disease in this region in order to shed light on the current COVID-19 pandemic and its likely course. R...

Economies in the Middle East and North Africa are suffering from supply chain problems due to the coronavirus.

In an interview, Ahmed Nagi discusses the dangers of the coronavirus in a country already facing a terrible conflict.

Mindanao, despite its legacy as a strife-ridden region, is still known to us as the “Land of Promise.”

Disasters and crises—floods, earthquakes, wars, and of course pandemics—shine an unforgiving light on society’s problems and tensions. As the Covid-19...

As the coronavirus spread around the world from China in February, the Kayin State Border Guard Force smuggled into Myanmar thousands of Chinese worke...