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Amid scandal, protest and geopolitical stress: where is Ukraine's economy going?

August 14, 2025 · 52 min

In this episode of the LSE Conflict Zone podcast, host Maliek Banat talks to Brian Milakovsky, an associate researcher with the PeaceRep-Ukraine programme and the lead author of a recent report, Critical Raw Materials, Local Content Policy…
Ukraine and Russia: who is winning on the economic front?

June 25, 2025 · 49 min

In this special episode, Dr Luke Cooper, the director of our Ukraine research programme sits down with the host to unpack how the war in Ukraine is transofrming state capacity, fuelling economic strength and redefining the path to peace in…
Ukraine in 2025 - what now?

January 25, 2025 · 46 min

With the return of Donald Trump in the White House – and his insistence that Kyiv and Moscow strike a peace deal “in 24 hours – huge uncertainty now hangs over the future of Ukraine’s democracy and freedom. In this podcast, Luke Cooper and…
Fragmentation of fragile peace: Political Marketplace in Ethiopia

November 15, 2023 · 36 min

The outlook on lasting peace in Ethiopia has been grim since the cessation of active hostilities in November of last year. A peace agreement between the Tigray’s People Liberation Front, or the TPLF, and the Federal Government in Ethiopia…
State Collapse and the Shrinking of Civic Space under the Taliban: The Politics of Knowledge in Afghanistan

November 3, 2023 · 27 min

In the aftermath of the Republic’s collapse, a lack of shared understanding of policy priorities and effective civic interventions is impeding development of pathways toward stability for Afghanistan. The situation has since deteriorated…

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From the Revolution of Dignity to Full-Scale War: Civic Resistance in Ukraine

October 6, 2023 · 32 min

The war in Ukraine is an ‘axial event’ in twenty-first century history, in which the agency of Ukrainians will have, one way or another, a tremendous impact on the future of global security. From Ukrainian soldiers and emergency rescue…
Where are Our Mangoes? Local-driven Contestation of Predatory Practices in South Sudan’s Resource Extraction

September 22, 2023 · 31 min

In slightly more than a decade of independence, South Sudan has endured civil war and a shaky peace agreement that leaves over 11 million South Sudanese yearning for the a less violent future. Devastating war in neighboring northern Sudan…
The logics of conflict in the DRC: from the mineral to the checkpoint economy

May 4, 2021 · 49 min

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been associated with mineral wealth. Indeed, the country is hugely rich in natural resources - and this has played an important incentivising role in the conflicts seen over the…
Decolonising conflict research in the Global South: reflections and dialogues

March 29, 2021 · 35 min

Conflict research as a subject area has often been prone to colonial mindsets and thinking. In a world in which power disparities between wealthy states and the former colonial world remain very large - indeed, often huge - there are…
What happens when the oil runs out? Traumatic decarbonisation in South Sudan

March 17, 2021 · 41 min

The transition away from fossil fuels is one of the major questions facing humanity in this century. In many states globally, this is presented as both a necessity and opportunity: to create new and sustainable economies.But what happens…
Investigating the oil rush in Somalia

February 16, 2021 · 47 min

Somalia is one of the world's poorest countries. It has suffered from a problem of persistent, intractable violence since the 1980s. But there is a new, optimistic atmosphere around Somalia development. All indications are the country has…
Ten years of war in Syria: an enquiry into the rights and wrongs of ‘intervention’

February 3, 2021 · 54 min

Syria is often seen as a tragic case of "non-intervention". One of several examples of where the international community failed to protect civilians from violence and atrocities. But, while there is an element of truth in this view, it…

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Cutting edge research into the drivers of intractable conflict. Our researchers bring together the big ideas and concepts needed to understand the causes of organised violence in the twenty-first century. We expose the political economy of organised violence: the networks of money and power that stand behind many of the world's trouble spots. Produced by the Conflict Research Programme, an international research project funded by the UK Department of International Development.