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\title{Insurgency, Border Contiguity, and Social Conflict in Neighbor Countries}



\author[1]{Kaderi Bukari}%
\author[2]{Ore Koren}%
\affil[1]{University of Cape Coast}%
\affil[2]{Indiana University}%


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  \date{April 24, 2026}


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This study investigates how extremist insurgencies in one state can
intensify social conflict in a bordering state, focusing on the 2015
Burkina Faso insurgency and its impacts on northern Ghana. Building on
past research, we theorize four pathways that can link insurgency to
social conflict across the border. We use a mixed-methods approach,
combining synthetic control models, fixed-effects panel data analyses,
and extensive fieldwork across multiple communities, and find clear
support for two pathways: insurgents using Ghana as a place for
obtaining resources and diverted security forces creating vacuums
exploited by bandits. The findings show that research and policy should
consider more the interaction across multiple types of violence and
varied geopolitical spaces in other susceptible world regions.%
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