Dr. Ibrahim is a Senior Researcher with the CCDP and Senior Advisor and lead to the Future of Arms Control Project at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Abdulla is researching international conflicts with over twelve years of expertise in multilateral dialogues and research processes. He is also a Nonresident Fellow with the Stimson Center, and an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. Abdulla’s research interests at the CCDP span topics ranging from arms control to European security, armed groups and armed forces consolidation, U.S. and Russian foreign policies and relations, to the current and future challenges to international order. Abdulla holds a PhD in international relations and political science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (IHEID); and an MA from the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame.
Areas of expertise include:
- Armed groups and armed forces consolidation
- US-Russia arms control and European security
- East Mediterranean and Middle East security dynamics
- Multilateral negotiations and facilitation
- Conflict analysis and dialogue process design