Niamatullah Ibrahimi

Dr. Niamatullah Ibrahimi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Initiative for Peacebuilding of the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the dynamics of peace and violence in conflict and post-conflict states in the Middle East and South Asia and addresses how international power politics, as well as local dynamics in the form of contentious politics and civil society, maintain and transform peace and conflict. He is the author of ‘The Hazaras and the Afghan State: Rebellion, Exclusion and Struggle for Recognition’ (London: Hurst & Co. 2017), co-author of (with William Maley) ‘Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State’ (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of ‘Mapping Futures for Afghanistan’ (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025).