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Seminars, discussions and more from PeaceRep consortium members.

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Digital transformation to end wars: foundational PeaceTech book updated for 2026

Prof Christine Bell's foundational book, PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars, has been updated to address recent changes in conflict, mediation and technology.

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Expanding the Evidence Base: Local Peace Agreements in Greater Pibor Administrative Area...

This policy brief expands on a 2025 PeaceRep report on local peace agreements in South Sudan with additional material that widens understanding of local peace agreements.

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Blogs

Why Gaza peace deals keep unravelling

Adam Farquhar explores why a series of Gaza peace deals have failed and what a workable agreement needs to succeed.

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Blogs

Five years of misrule in Afghanistan: how the Taliban have created the conditions for...

Prof Michael Semple explores the Afghan experience of civil resistance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate and what this tells us about possible pathways to peaceful change.

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Afghans’ Liminal Civil Resistance to Taliban Rule

This report explores the Afghan experience of civil resistance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate and what this tells us about possible pathways to peaceful change.

Survival and ‘Civicness’ in the Shadow of Russian Power: The Networks Conducting...

Evacuations from Russian-occupied territory are sometimes assisted by activist networks that operate across both the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Ukraine, Russia and new wars

This article examines the relevance of the Russo-Ukrainian War to the new wars analysis. Building on previous work on ‘civicness’, this article analyses the war as a contest between...

Professor Tobias Kelly

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Professor Tobias Kelly

Tobias Kelly is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology, and PeaceRep's Principal Investigator.

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Edinburgh Law School hosts the July 2026 Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship

Edinburgh Law School hosted the Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship on 20 July 2026 as part of the Scottish Peace Platform.

Justice Under Pressure: Customary Justice Systems and Their Adaptive Role in Conflict and...

This report approaches customary courts as key sites of practice where questions of law, mediation, governance, and violence prevention are negotiated in South Sudan.

Frozen but not recovered: state capacity and the gap between seizing and realising assets...

This report is a first cut analysis of the challenges that Ukraine faces as it seeks to reform its public institutions while prosecuting the war of national survival against...

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Blogs

Iran Is Losing Iraq

Baghdad goes its own way, writes Kamaran Palani. Even if Iran survives the war, its position in Iraq may not.

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United in Trust: Ukrainian Attitudes to the European Parliament After the Russian...

This article in Europe-Asia Studies examines how war-related threats have affected Ukrainians’ trust in the European Parliament.

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South Sudan at 15: how the political elite have found a way to profit from peace as well...

Matthew Benson-Strohmayer explores how South Sudan’s peace agreements reshaped the country’s systems of revenue, spending and coercion.

A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Reshaping Global Conflict Management

Monalisa Adhikari shows how rising powers like India and China are reshaping global peace governance.

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Sustaining the post-agreement peace – Galkaio, Somalia (journal article)

This article examines the implementation and evolution of the 2017 peace agreement in Galkaio, a divided town in central Somalia marking the border of clan and state boundaries.

Engaging with Sahelian Transitions: Changing Political and Geostrategic Context Calls for...

This policy brief examines the consolidation of military-led transitions in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, arguing that traditional approaches to engagement may no longer be fit for purpose.

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Economic Governance in Post-Assad Syria: Actors, Power Relations, and Future Scenarios

This report examines who governs Syria’s economy after the fall of the Assad regime - and through which institutions, networks, and mechanisms of influence.