Navigating the Horn: Turkey’s Forays in East Africa
This report analyses the understandings and motivations underlying Turkey's peacebuilding engagement in East Africa, and outlines potential future developments.
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Third Parties in Peace Agreements: First Look at New Data and Key Trends
This report discusses key trends in third-party signatories' engagement with peace agreements, with a focus on selected countries and regional organisations.
Knowledge, power and the failure of US peacemaking in Afghanistan
Emergent western policy discourses, knowledge production and practices have interacted to induce a significant shift in US policy, fundamentally reshaping the conflict and peacemaking landscape.
Resistance Committees and Sudan’s Political Future
This policy brief highlights how support from various stakeholders can develop Sudanese resistance committees' capacity for social protection and humanitarian relief provision.
The Taliban and the Rural-Urban Divide
This reflection explores the nature of the rural-urban divide in Afghanistan in terms of economic, security, cultural-ideological factors.
Humanitarian Aid Delivery in Contemporary Afghanistan
This paper draws on evaluation data and analysis from Uplift Afghanistan’s efforts at delivering humanitarian assistance to offer lessons learned about the strengths and weaknesses of different options.
The Future of the Banking Industry in Afghanistan
This reflection paper asks whether Afghanistan's commercial banking sector can survive in the wake of the Taliban takeover, looking at how the banks have sought to adapt and possible...
Afghanistan’s Minerals: Past and Present
The paper analyses the main factors that contribute towards the development of extractive industries, what their status was in post-2001 Afghanistan, and what the state of extractive industries was...
Managing Climate Change under the De Facto Authorities
This Afghanistan Research Network reflection offers practical recommendations for resuming climate change-related work in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.
The Gulf States Mediating in the Horn of Africa: For Domestic or Regional Consumption?
Domestic considerations need to be recognised when examining the Gulf states' involvement in conflict mediation throughout the Horn of Africa.
Situating the Contribution of the Political Marketplace Framework to Peace Processes
This research report highlights the roles played by the political marketplace framework in analysing the logic of transactional politics in the contemporary era.
‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional...
Examining Nepal’s post-conflict constitution-writing process, this article explores why international constitutional assistance (ICA) fails to deliver on inclusion.