Internasjonalt seminar: The Path of Thorns: Gaza After Genocide

In this seminar, we try to answer these folded questions, and what potential form of governance can Gaza have afterwards.

**The seminar will be held in English.

***Speaker***

Abdalhadi Alijla is a social and political scientist and science advocate. He is the author of “Trust in Divided Societies” by Bloomsbury Academics and I.B.Tauris UK. He is the 2021 International Political Science Association Global South Award. Abdalhadi is a Non-resident Research Associate at the Center for Social Sciences and Actions in Beirut, Lebanon.

He is the Co-Leader of Global Migration and Human Rights at Global Young Academy and a co-founder of Palestine Young Academy in 2020.
He is an Associate Researcher and the Regional Manager of Varieties of Democracy Institute (Gothenburg University) for Gulf countries.

He was a Post-doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute in Beirut (OIB) in 2020. Since 2021, he is an associate fellow within SEPAD, sectarianism, proxies and de-sectorisation at Lancaster University. In 2018, He was an associate fellow at the Post-Conflict Research Center in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Abdalhadi has a PhD in political studies from the State University of Milan and an M.A. degree in Public Policy and Governance from Zeppelin University- Friedrichshafen, Germany.

***Moderator***

Bahaa Eleyan is a Palestinian activist and cultural curator based in Tromsø, Norway.

He is currently completing his Master’s degree at UiT, where his research focuses on the impact of cultural activities and expressive tools on the resilience of young people in Gaza.