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Amal Bourhrous
Associate Researcher
Amal Bourhrous
Amal Bourhrous is an Associate Researcher, attached to the SIPRI Conflict, Peace and Security research area, and specifically to the SIPRI Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme. She previously was a Researcher in the SIPRI Middle East and North Africa Programme. Her research interests include the dynamics of identity, citizenship and nation-building as they relate to statehood and sovereignty; the relationship between securitization trends and the political process; and the ways in which the wider geopolitical transformations and the new challenges to international security affect the MENA region.
Prior to joining SIPRI, Amal was a Programme Coordinator at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She has also been a junior visiting researcher at the Centre for Strategic Studies in Amman, Jordan. Her MA thesis examined the interaction of religion and politics in Morocco.
Subject expertise
Democratic transitions, state and society, geopolitics of the MENA region
Regional expertise
Middle East and North Africa
CONTACT Amal Bourhrous
Languages
Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Turkish
Education
MSc in Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden
Master’s degree in International Security, Sciences Po Paris, France
BA in International Studies, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Climate change and post-conflict reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq (Blog, )
- Libya’s electoral limbo: The crisis of legitimacy (Blog, )
- War in the breadbasket: The impacts of the war in Ukraine on food security and stability in Lebanon (Blog, )
- Trust and coercion in times of emergency: COVID-19 and structures of authority in North Africa (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Strengthening Social Cohesion in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Issues of Common Concern and Local Cooperative Solutions (SIPRI, Stockholm: August 2024)
- Environmental Politics in Gulf Cooperation Council States: Strengthening the Role of Civil Society (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2023)
- Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2022)
- Reform within the System: Governance in Iraq and Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Fixing the Economy and Public Service Provision in Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Conflict Mediation and Peacebuilding in the Sahel: The Role of Maghreb Countries in an African Framework (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2021)
- Protest and State–Society Relations in the Middle East and North Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2020)
External publications
- Bourhrous, A., Prospects of Post-conflict Reconstruction in Libya, IEMed Yearbook (2023)
- Bourhrous, A. and O’Driscoll, D., Everyday peace in the Ninewa Plains, Iraq: Culture, rituals, and community interactions, Cooperation and Conflict (June 2023)
- Bourhrous, A., Rainmaking Rituals in the Era of Climate Change: A Spatial Approach, African Social Research (July 2023)
- Bourhrous, A., Judith Shklar, SEPAD Social Theory Series (Oct. 2022)
- O'Driscoll, D. and Bourhrous, A., Occupying Space in the Kirkuk Bazaar: an intersectional analysis, Peacebuilding (Oct. 2022)
- Bourhrous, A., Rebuilding Libya’s Economy on New and Sustainable Grounds, EuroMeSCo (Feb. 2022)
- Bourhrous, A., The fate of Libyan women’s rights hangs in the balance, New African (Oct. 2021)
- Bourhrous, A., Peacebuilding paradigms: the impact of theoretical diversity on implementing sustainable peace, ed. Carey H. F., Peacebuilding, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK (Sep. 2021)
- Bourhrous, A., More than Just Military Action Needed in the Sahel, GMF (Dec. 2017)
- Bourhrous, A. and Smith, S., Strengthening youth engagement in post-Jasmine Revolution Tunisia, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, development dialogue paper no. 19 (Aug. 2016)