Editors

Series Editor
  • Sultan Barakat
  • Sansom Milton

About the Editor

Sultan Barakat is Professor in Public Policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Honorary Professor at the University of York, UK. He is a world-renowned scholar known for pioneering the study of war-torn societies and their recovery. Professor Barakat founded the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and directed it between 2016 and 2022. Previously he served as Director of Research at the Brookings Institution’s center in Doha. At the University of York, he founded and led the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit​ between 1993 and 2019. 

Sansom Milton is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. His work focuses on conflict analysis, higher education in emergencies, and humanitarian action and post-war recovery in the Middle East.