Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies

Nadia Ali

Associate Researcher

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Research Profile

Nadia’s research interest includes the local impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects—the Chines Belt and Road initiative—as well as climate change and top-down approaches to natural resource governance. Her research is informed by a multidisciplinary approach that synthesizes perspectives from political ecology, development studies, conflict studies, and borderland studies. She is particularly interested in examining state-periphery dynamics, processes of marginalization, cross-border connectivity and dysconnectivity, social conflict, climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate mobilities and natural resource governance.

Research Topics / Key Expertise

Cross-border (dis)connectivity

Vulnerability

Social Conflict

Climate change adaptation and mitigation

Sustainability

Natural resource management

Countries Of Expertise

Germany,
Pakistan

Professional Career

Nadia worked as a doctoral researcher at the Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (bicc) from May 2021 to February 2025. She is currently in the final stages of completing her doctoral degree at the University of Bonn. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Governance from the University of Freiburg, Germany. Prior to her time at BICC, she worked as a research associate at the University of Freiburg on EU-funded project called Urbana for Just and Sustainable Cities. She also interned at the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub, where she contributed to a Climate Education Program. In Pakistan, she worked with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as a Climate Change Adaptation Officer, leading an action research initiative focused on climate adaptation in the Himalayan region.

Publications

Journal article

Ali, N., & Schetter, C.

Tourism Frontier: A Space of Opportunity and Disenchantment in Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan

Elsevier , Amsterdam (2026)

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