The Centre on Armed Groups supports efforts to reduce violence and end armed conflict.
We do this through conducting innovative research, creating safe spaces for dialogue, and providing advice.
Latest news
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The Taliban orders women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public
Centre co-director Ashley Jackson quoted in NPR coverage of the Taliban’s latest restrictions on women
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Beyond frontlines: rethinking control in civil wars
King’s College London hosts an online event to discuss the Centre’s latest research on understanding armed group control
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Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax
This article in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism highlights the Centre’s recent research into armed group taxation, developed through its ongoing partnership with the International Centre for Tax & Development
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The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
Co-edited by the Centre’s Florian Weigand, the Routledge Handbook on Smuggling offers a comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends
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Rethinking armed group control
Prevailing understandings of armed control, focused on territory, miss important indicators and implications. The Centre’s research paper argues that control should instead be broken down according how armed groups seek to influence populations.
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Three myths about armed groups and the smuggling economy
Non-state armed actors are routinely blamed for supporting transnational crime by trading and smuggling drugs and other illicit goods. The reality. is more complicated, Centre co-director Florian Weigand writes in this blog.
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Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax
Armed groups tax. This ICTD-Centre Working Paper argues We argue that we need a deeper understanding of the nuanced realities of armed group taxation, the motivations behind it, and the implications.
