Staff

Dr Abdullah Al-Jabassini

Dr Abdullah Al-Jabassini

Associate Researcher


contact by e-mail

Aljabassinia(at)ceu.edu

Expertise

Research Profile


Al-Jabassini’s research focuses on political violence and civil war, wartime social order, organized crime, authoritarian conflict management, illiberal peacebuilding, and security sector reform.

Countries Of Expertise


  • Syria

Professional Career

Abdullah Al-Jabassini holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, Canterbury. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC. He was previously a CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CEU, a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the EUI, and an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna.

Publications

bicc report

Dincer, O., Şahin-Mencütek, Z., Al-Jabassini, A., & Daher, J.

Limits to the Return and Reintegration of Displaced People in Transitional Syria

bicc , Bonn (2026)

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