Abdalhadi Alijla
Abdalhadi is the author of Trust in Divided Societies by Bloomsbury Academics and I.B.Tauris UK. He is the 2021 International Political Science Association Global South Award. He is Gerda Henkel fellow and a Non-resident Research Associate at the Center for Social Sciences and Actions in Beirut, Lebanon, a Co-Leader of Global Migration and Human Rights at Global Young Academy, and a co-founder of Palestine Young Academy in 2020. He is also an Associate Researcher and the Regional Manager of Varieties of Democracy Institute (Gothenburg University) for Gulf countries. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute in Beirut (OIB). Since 2021, he has been an associate fellow within SEPAD, sectarianism, proxies and de-sectorisation at Lancaster University. Since April 2018, he has been an associate fellow at the Post-Conflict Research Center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Abdalhadi has a PhD in political studies from the State University of Milan and an MA in Public Policy and Governance from Zeppelin University- Friedrichshafen, Germany. He has been granted several awards and scholarships, including DAAD (2009), RLC Junior Scientist (2010), UNIMI (2012), ICCROM (2010), Saud AL-Babtin(2002) among others. In 2016, he was a fellow of the Royal Society of Art and Science, UK.
He has worked for many NGOs and INGOs in the Middle East and Europe such as Transparency International, GiZ, EU Maddad Fund for Syria Crisis, and UNV among others. He is a member of the scientific and consultative committee of Center for Arab Unity Studies in Beirut. His writings appear on OpenDemocracy, Mondoweiss, Huffpost, Qantara, Your Middle East, Jaddaliya and other media outlets. His main research interests are divided societies, rebel governance, democracy, social capital, middle east studies, and comparative politics.
