Abdullah al-Jabassini holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury. He is a CIVICA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Central European University in Vienna, seconded by the Max Weber Postdoctoral Programme at the European University Institute in Florence. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C., and an Associate Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies in Bonn. Previously, al-Jabassini served as a Research Fellow for the ‘Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria’ and the ‘Syrian Trajectories’ research projects at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute.  His research expertise includes political violence and civil war, wartime social order, third-party intervention in civil conflicts, authoritarian conflict management, peace-building and reconciliation processes, security sector reform, rebel-military integration, and local governance and institutions, with a particular focus on southern Syria.

Previously, Dr. al-Jabassini was a Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, where he worked on the ‘Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria’ and ‘Syrian Trajectories’ research projects. His work examines authoritarian conflict management, security sector reform, rebel-military integration, and local governance.