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Recent Reports
Oman: Consultative Elections 2023 Javier Guirado - 9th Apr 2024
Social Relations After COVID-19: LEBANON Edward Wastnidge - 27th Nov 2023 In 2021, a working group of academics affiliated with the SEPAD and TOI projects...
Social Relations After COVID-19: IRAQ Edward Wastnidge - 27th Nov 2023 In 2021, a working group of academics affiliated with the SEPAD and TOI projects...

What We Do

The Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project based at Lancaster University’s Richardson Institute is a collaborative project aimed at understanding the conditions that give rise to sectarian violence and proxy conflicts.

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Sepad Reports

What the UN can do to revive the political process in Libya? Read More
Iranian revolution: world’s reactions show that, four decades on, tensions remain as high as ever The 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution in February 1979 was greeted by an extraordinary tweet from US president Donald Trump. In both English and Arabic, it referred to “40 years of failure” and said the Iranian people deserved a “much... Read More
After years of proxy war, Saudi Arabia and Iran are finally squaring up in the open Ever since Saudi Arabia executed Shia Cleric Nimr al-Nimr for terrorist offences, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been escalating by the day. Relations between Riyadh and Tehran have been tense ever since the Islamic Republic of Iran... Read More
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Announcements

Leftist-Islamist cross-ideological opposition and cooperation in Morocco
Leftist-Islamist cross-ideological opposition and cooperation in Morocco Guy Eyre - 3rd Apr 2024 The author thanks the Garda Henkel Foundation's Security, Society and the State...
Call for Papers: State Islam and Authoritarian Rule
Call for Papers: State Islam and Authoritarian Rule Simon Mabon - 20th Mar 2024 State Islam and Authoritarian Rule: Comparing Control Over Religious Institutions...
Researching Sects and tribes in the Syrian conflict: Positionality and methodological challenges
Researching Sects and tribes in the Syrian conflict: Positionality and methodological challenges Haian Dukhan - 8th Mar 2024 The Arab Spring protest movement has sparked hope for the emergence of a civic...
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SEPAD is supported by the following organisations

Carnegie Corporation of New York Lancaster University Richardson Institute The Foreign Policy Centre
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