Ibrahim, Raslan

Raslan Ibrahim is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS. He is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a Research Associate at the Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP).

Professor Ibrahim served as the 2021–22 Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and as a Fellow at the Institute of International Relations and the Global South Unit for Mediation at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil.  He has taught at Haverford College, the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Denver, SUNY Geneseo, and PUC-Rio. In addition to his academic work, he also worked as a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Arabic, covering Israeli and Palestinian affairs.

His research interests include human rights, human dignity, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, sovereignty, intervention, and regional organizations in the Middle East.

During his associate research fellowship at UNU-CRIS, Professor Ibrahim will primarily work on regionalism in the Middle East;  the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and conflict resolution; the Arab League and human rights; and regional organizations and international norms (in collaboration with Frank Mattheis) within the Re-LAB cluster.