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Policy Centres
Advancing solutions through specialised research, regional insight, and strategic foresight.
The MEA Institute’s policy centres serve as intellectual anchors, advancing strategic research and policy-oriented analysis across the Middle East and Africa. Together, they generate evidence-based insights, inform decision-making, and urge leaders in government, business and civil society to address the region’s most pressing challenges. Each centre provides a platform for cross-disciplinary dialogue, policy, innovation, and actionable insights.
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Centre for Resource Management and Sustainability
Energy governance, renewable transitions, climate resilience.
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Centre for Peace and Security
Dedicated to conflict resolution, peacebuilding, counter-terrorism, and regional security cooperation to promote lasting stability.
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Centre for Geoeconomics, Integration and Regional Connectivity
Explores trade dynamics, investment corridors, economic integration, and growth strategies driving connectivity across the MEA and beyond.
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MEA Centre for Foreign Policy and Geostrategic Engagement
Analyses diplomacy, alliances, great-power competition, and strategic foresight.
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Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Digital Policy
Examines artificial intelligence, cyber-security, digital governance.
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Centre for Diaspora, Migration, and Mobility Studies
Investigates migration flows, refugee dynamics, remittances, and diaspora engagement.
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The Institute’s regional programmes provide in-depth, context-specific research grounded in local realities.
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Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme
Engages with governance challenges, political transitions, socio-economic reforms, and prospects for regional integration.
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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Programme
Focuses on development pathways, governance, security dynamics, and Africa’s evolving role in global affairs.
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Indigenisation of Drone Warfare in Africa
Drone proliferation has, over the last two decades, become a common place tactic within the theatre of war and armed…
