How is local security governance functioning beyond formal institutions and how is this experienced by average Libyans? Our new research findings emphasize the need to take account of the full spectrum of local security providers, including informal actors that are trusted and considered legitimate.

Short online study mapping key practices of how donors monitor the implementation of activities funded by their aid in conditions of conflict.

More than half of Syria's population is currently living in exile. This Policy Brief identifies four tools the Syrian regime can use to control the return of refugees and IDPs.

Chapter in a report on the complex situation in Libya and the road to elections and future of the reconciliation process.

The Idlib offensive is not the end of the civil war, but merely the next stage in the fight to retake Syria's north and east, says Matthias Sulz in his Syria Comment.

In this op-ed in RefugeesDeeply, Ana Uzelac explains how in Lebanon erroneous narratives about refugees limit the ability of donor funding to improve refugees' well-being.

New report analysing the challenges of implementing a ´protection in the region´ agenda in Lebanon, a country that hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, and which has been the recipient of one of the largest per capita aid and support packages since 2016.

Urging international and Lebanese stakeholders to take steps to support the use of mobile phones as livelihood tools among Syrian refugees, this policy brief outlines measures that may cushion the impact of the high costs and allow for easier connectivity.

Turkey's policies towards the Middle East have steadily become less predictable, more revisionist and less strategic - largely in function of its domestic politics.