We research transnational conflict trends, conflict-affected borderlands, and drivers of violent & peaceful behaviour. Funded by @FCDOREDGCSD
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🙏 That’s a wrap on XCEPT’s final conference. Thank you to everyone who spoke and joined the discussion. Explore nine years of XCEPT research on conflict across borders.
Check out all XCEPT research here👇 🔗 xcept-research.org/publicati… #ConflictResearch
☀️ Day 2 of XCEPT’s final conference is under way!
Today: new centres of power, armed groups as proto-state actors, climate risk in borderlands, and regional and multilateral responses to cross-border conflict.
xcept-research.org/news_even…
#Borderlands #ClimateSecurity
📢 Day 1 of XCEPT’s final conference is under way! On today’s agenda: conflict ‘ecosystems’, the power of controlling flows of goods and money, and the limits of sanctions and interdiction.
Looking forward to discussions!
#ConflictResearch #Borderlands
👋 Researchers and partners are in London for XCEPT’s final conference, and the conversations have already started.
Two days of discussion on what nine years of research tells us about conflict across borders.
🔗xcept-research.org/news_even…
#ConflictResearch #Borderlands
A few places remain for the XCEPT Conference 2026 in London on 21–22 October. Interested in joining researchers, policymakers and practitioners working on cross-border conflict?
Register your interest: shorturl.at/BHIVT
Live webinar: How do political and economic elites shape authority, resource extraction, governance, and everyday life in contested borderlands.
🗓️30 October | ⏰14:00 BST
Register: shorturl.at/KwJM8
#Pakistan #SouthSudan #Iraq
Live webinar: How do communities in South Sudan’s borderlands navigate conflict, authority and survival in everyday life?
🗓️1 October | ⏰14:00 BST
Register: shorturl.at/WL5br
#SouthSudan #Conflictresearch
🌍 Across conflict-affected borderlands, women shape governance and peacebuilding through informal, embodied and locally rooted forms of influence.
Join us for a webinar on agency, power and legitimacy from feminist perspectives.
22 Sep | 14:00–15:00 BST
shorturl.at/EIR9A
🌍How do elites shape power, resources and governance in contested borderlands?
Join XCEPT on 30 September for insights from Pakistan, Iraq and South Sudan.
Online | 14:00–15:15 BST
Register: shorturl.at/757rF
XCEPT Research retweeted
Story map!
Two years' and three reports' worth of work in one very pretty visual and interactive package
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Over the past six months a team of researchers at @TCFdotorg's Century international has published three blockbuster reports, on Houthi supply chains, the shifting inner workings of the Axis of Resistance, and, yesterday, on Houthi network-building in Africa.
XCEPT Research retweeted
Over the past six months a team of researchers at @TCFdotorg's Century international has published three blockbuster reports, on Houthi supply chains, the shifting inner workings of the Axis of Resistance, and, yesterday, on Houthi network-building in Africa.
What lessons can the Lake Chad region offer for tackling climate-related insecurity?
Join us at #UNPeacebuildingWeek for a timely discussion.
📅 24 June | 🕙 10:00–11:30 EST
📍 New York
💻 Virtual: shorturl.at/Dmobu
✉️ In-person: [email protected]
#ClimateSecurity
🌍Join us on 17 June (09:30–12:30 BST) for a workshop on conflict exits in the Lake Chad Basin.
Explore new research on reintegration, community dynamics, and the challenges faced by women and girls.
👉For more info, speaker bios and to register: shorturl.at/f2hn2
How do checkpoints reshape conflict?
Join us on 18 June for an evidence session on how checkpoint economies shape conflict, governance, and livelihoods.
📍 Online
⏰ 09:30 BST
👉 Register: shorturl.at/lIv5r
#ConflictResearch #TRACE
New XCEPT report out now: Responding to climate change‑related insecurity in the Lake Chad region by Cedric de Coning, Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Freedom Onuoha, Saibou Issa & Thor Olav Iversen.
Read it here: xcept-research.org/publicati…
New working paper out now: Wars over checkpoints explores how roadblocks shape power, markets and conflict across borderlands from Myanmar to South Sudan, Yemen and beyond. Essential reading on the politics of circulation. xcept-research.org/publicati…
Timely research from XCEPT on Sudan and Ethiopia. Full reports below ⬇️
#Sudan #Ethiopia #HornOfAfrica
Sudan:
📙Conflict, governance and identity in Sudan - tinyurl.com/mrxfkezp
📙Displaced Sudanese women and girls in eastern Chad – tinyurl.com/5aw76cez
📙Impact of underfunded aid on Sudanese women refugees in Chad – tinyurl.com/4545j7u7
Ethiopia:
📗Women in ethnonational armed groups in Ethiopia - tinyurl.com/w8dupaah
📗Ethiopia’s Red Sea strategy and regional security - tinyurl.com/mph4jyc7
Still time to register for our virtual panel on Afghanistan’s water crisis & climate challenges – 21 Jan, 11:00 GMT.
Experts will discuss Helmand River Basin, adaptation strategies & transboundary disputes.
👉 Register: lnkd.in/ekJzAwTU
#Afghanistan #Climate #WaterSecurity