Call for concept notes - Climate change, informal trade, and instability in conflict-affected borderlands

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    "description": "The XCEPT Research Fund (XRF) is inviting applications for a 12-month project that will produce innovative, empirically grounded research examining the relationship between climate change, informal trade networks, and instability in conflict-affected borderlands, with a focus on the role of informal cross-border trade in the causal pathways linking climate stress to instability and conflict.\r\n\r\nBuilding on the understanding that climate stress in conflict-affected borderlands - and the resulting increase in informal cross-border trade - can both amplify the agency of local communities as well as fuel instability, this Call for Concept Notes seeks to fund research that examines whether - and under what conditions - such trade networks support climate change adaptation and/or influence conflict. Concept notes should consider the following interlinked research questions:\r\n\r\n1. How do communities in conflict-affected borderlands draw on informal, cross-border trade networks to adapt to climate extremes? \r\n2. How are existing trade networks utilised or new ones formed?   \r\nHow effective are such networks as a form of climate change adaptation and resilience-building? \r\n\r\n3. Under what conditions do such informal, cross-border trade networks fuel instability and conflict, and what are the implications for local communities and climate adaptation?   \r\n\r\nFunding support up to \u00a3120,000 is available per award, depending on the scope of the research and methods employed.\r\n\r\nApplications are welcome from organisations only.\r\n\r\nInterested applicants can read more about this opportunity here:\r\nhttps://www.xcept-research.org/grants_post/call-for-concept-notes-climate-change-informal-trade-and-instability-in-conflict-affected-borderlands/\r\n\r\nThe deadline for submission is Tuesday 16 September 2025 at 10:00 BST",
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