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 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.
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 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 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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Oliver Walton is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. His research focuses on the political economy of war-to-peace transitions, civil society, NGOs and NGO legitimacy. He is principal investigator for the PACCS- funded ‘Living on the Margins: The Role of Borderland Brokers in Post-War Transitions’ project and a co-investigator on the ‘Borderlands, Brokers and Peacebuilding’ project.
Sharri Plonski is a lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her expertise is in the politics of Palestine/Israel, which she examines through the lens of borders, infrastructure and anti-colonial resistance. Her current research project is on the impact of logistics, trade and transport corridors on Middle East political and geographic landscapes.
