Natalia Mirimanova
Natalia Mirimanova is a conflict resolution scholar- practitioner and has over 25 years of experience of mediation, design and facilitation of dialogue processes, research and advocacy in the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Cyprus. Natalia received her Ph.D. from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University.
Mariam Abdel Baky
Mariam Abdel Baky is a Project Manager at International Alert’s Tunisia office. She manages projects on inclusive and democratic governance on Tunisia’s borders with Algeria and Libya. Her areas of expertise include socio-economic rights, governance, youth and marginalisation, and gender.
Previously, Mariam was based in Cairo working on socio- economic projects in the south of Egypt. She holds an MSc in International Relations Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Kalpana Jha
Kalpana Jha is a researcher at Martin Chautari, Kathmandu. She has worked extensively on Madhesi politics and is the author of The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal (Springer, 2017). She has worked as a researcher on the ‘Borderlands, Brokers and Peacebuilding’ project.
Abdulkader Kurabi
Abdulkader Kurabi is a researcher and news editor from north-west Syria. He is a graduate from al-Azhar University in Egypt and the University of Damascus and he is currently completing a degree in Istanbul University. He has covered the Syrian conflict for several Arab newspapers from Istanbul as well as Syria.
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Patrick Meehan
Patrick Meehan works in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research explores the political economy of violence, conflict and development, and engages specifically with the relationship between illicit drug economies, statebuilding and peacebuilding, with a primary focus on Myanmar’s borderlands with China and Thailand.
Jeremy Lind
Jeremy Lind is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. A human geographer by training, his work explores the governance and politics of development in the Horn of Africa, with a particular focus on pastoralist contexts.
Patrick Meehan
Patrick Meehan works in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. His research explores the political economy of violence, conflict and development, and engages specifically with the relationship between illicit drug economies, statebuilding and peacebuilding, with a primary focus on Myanmar’s borderlands with China and Thailand. He is a co-investigator on the GCRF-funded ‘Drugs and (dis)order’ project.
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Jonathan Goodhand
Jonathan Goodhand is Professor of Conflict and Development Studies at SOAS. He has extensive experience as a researcher and advisor in South and Central Asia for a range of non-government organisations and aid agencies. His research interests include borderlands, the political economy of aid and conflict, NGOs and peacebuilding, and ‘post conflict’ reconstruction.
Anwar Jaber
Anwar Jaber is a PhD researcher in Architecture at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on current spatial developments in the Palestinian city of Ramallah under the Palestinian statebuilding project. She previously practised as an architect and urban planner in Jerusalem.
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