Alaa Tartir is an External Associate at PRIO.
Research Interests
- Dynamics of Peace and Security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- Security Sector Governance and Reform in the Arab World
- Authoritarianism, Contentious Politics, and State-Building/Failure in the Middle East
- Political Economy of Aid, Security, Conflict, and Development in the MENA region
- Conflicts, Arms, and Armed Groups in the MENA and Sahel-Sahara regions
- International Relations and Middle East Politics and Societies
- Palestinian Politics, Economy, Society, and Governance
- Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Background
Dr Alaa Tartir is a Research Associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland. Tartir is also a Researcher and Lead Coordinator of the Security Assessment in North Africa and Sahel-Sahara (SANA) project at the Small Arms Survey (SAS). Additionally, Tartir is a Policy and Program Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, and a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). Amongst other positions, Tartir was a Fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at Utrecht University (NL), a Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) at IHEID, and a Researcher in International Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he earned his PhD. Tartir is the author of Policing Palestine: Securitising Peace and Criminalising Resistance in the West Bank (Pluto Press, 2021), the editor of Outsourcing Repression: Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination (AMEC, 2019), and the co-editor of Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Tartir's publications can be accessed at www.alaatartir.com.
Publications
The following publications are specific to the PRIO Middle East Centre. A more complete list is available at www.prio.org.
All Publications
Popular Article
Tartir, Alaa (2020) Biden’s Impending Billions to Palestine, LSE Middle East Centre Blog, 15 December.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) ُفق السلام الفلسطيني الإسرائيلي في عهد بايدن [Biden and the Prospects for Peace in Palestine-Israel], Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 15 December.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) Peace in Palestine cannot be achieved amid unlawful demolitions, Al-Jazeera, 20 November.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) مكمنُ السلام في الكفِّ عن تشريد الفلسطينيين [Unlawful Demolitions Can’t Lead to Peace], Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 11 November.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) برامج المعونة الدولية لفلسطين بعد كوفيد–19, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 4 November.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) It's time to rethink the structure of Palestinian aid, Middle East Eye, 31 October.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) اتفاقات أبراهام وتشويه معنى السلام [Abraham Accords and the Distortion of Peace], Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 22 October.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) Discord Around the Abraham Accords: Three questions to Dr. Alaa Tartir, Institut Montaigne, 14 October.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) Covid-19 has become the last injustice made to Palestine, Geneva Solutions, 8 September.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) الفلسطينيون وآفاق استعادة منظمة التحرير [The Prospects of Reclaiming the PLO], Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, 7 September.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) Why Palestinians Need to Reclaim the PLO, Foreign Policy, 20 August.
Tartir, Alaa (2020) كوفيد - 19 واللامساواة في فلسطين [COVID-19 and Inequality in Palestine], Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper, 30 July.
Report - External Series
Tartir, Alaa; & Alaa Tartir (2020) Reclaiming The PLO, Re-Engaging Youth, Al-Shabaka Policy Circle Report. California: Al-Shabaka: the Palestinian Policy Network.