Abdullah al-Jabassini is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Central European University, Vienna

Abdullah al-Jabassini is a CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central European University in Vienna and a former Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury. Al-Jabassini is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C, and an Associate Researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies in Bonn.

His primary expertise lies in international relations, political violence and civil war, wartime social order, third-party intervention in civil conflicts, authoritarian conflict management, peacebuilding and reconciliation processes, rebel-military integration, and local governance in areas of limited statehood, with a deep focus on Syria and the Middle East.