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Dr. al-Jabassini holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury. He is a CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of International Relations at the Central European University in Vienna. He is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna. 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.
Previously, al-Jabassini was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was also 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 main research interests include political violence and civil war, dynamics of insurgency formation, wartime social order, third-party intervention in civil conflicts, authoritarian conflict management, peace-building and reconciliation processes, rebel-military integration, and local governance in areas of limited statehood, with a main regional focus on the Middle East.