Cohort: POLS 40

Topic of the thesis: The Impact of the Rebel Governance Style on the Sustainability of Negotiated Peace

Abstract: Sustaining peace has been a dilemma for states emerging from civil wars. The literature on sustaining peace examined the reasons behind that. Some scholars argue that excluding influential conflicted parties might harm peace sustainability. These excluded parties might not accept being out of the state-building process and continue the conflict. Absent from this discussion are the rebels who govern. This study will delve into rebel groups who provide governance during the civil war. They are important to be studied because of the relative legitimacy gained from the people under their rule. Their governance experience would contribute to the post-war state-building process. This study will examine how the integration of these groups impacts sustaining peace. It will also develop a typology based on the bundle of strategies that these groups implement to reach their grand agenda and explore how the outcome of sustaining peace would be conditioned on specific style.

Research interests:Conflict and Peace Studies, Middle East politics, Rebel governance, Gender studies.

Graduated from: Future University in Egypt (BA), The American University in Cairo (MA).

Degrees obtained: BA in Economics and Political Science, MA in Political Science.

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