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Ghassan Elkahlout

Ghassan Elkahlout

Director

 
 
 
 
 
Ghassan Elkahlout
CHS Staff

Biography

Ghassan Elkahlout is the Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies. He is an Associate Professor in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action at the Doha Insitute for Graduate Studies. His specialized experience covering three decades of professional work includes the areas of humanitarian response, post-war early recovery, and capacity building. Dr Elkahlout received his PhD in post-war reconstruction and development studies from the University of York, United Kingdom, in 2001.

Prior to joining the Doha Institute in 2016, Dr Ghassan Elkahlout led a distinguished and varied career as a humanitarian professional. This involved working for international organizations including the United Nations, the International Federation of Red Crescent Societies, and Islamic Relief Worldwide. He served as a member of a wide range of emergency humanitarian response teams and has extensive field experience in conflict and disaster-affected contexts including but not limited to Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Libya, and Jordan.

In 2015, he was appointed as Director of the Humanitarian Forum, playing a key role in convening spaces for training and knowledge sharing in the humanitarian sector in the United Kingdom. He has delivered training courses in the fields of humanitarian response, disaster management, post-war early recovery, and post-war reconstruction.

His research on humanitarian action and post-conflict recovery in conflict-affected context has appeared in prestigious international publications including Housing Studies, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal of Sustainable Development, Disasters, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, and the International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis. He is the author of "Humanitarian Action: Reality and Challenges" - - which is one of the leading books on the subject published in Arabic.



Other Publications

Ghassan Elkahlout, Sansom Milton, Taha Yaseen & Elham Raweh, "Localisation of humanitarian action in War-torn Countries: The experience of local NGOs in Yemen." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, V.75 (June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102921.

Sansom Milton, Ghassan Elkahlout & Sultan Barakat, protecting higher education from attack in the Gaza Strip, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (2021), DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2021.1987192

Barakat, Sultan, Sansom Milton, and Ghassan Elkahlout. "The Impact of the Gulf Crisis on Qatar's Humanitarian Sector." Disasters 44, no. 1 (January 2020): 63-84

Elkahlout, Ghassan. "'Hearts and Minds': Examining the Kuwaiti Humanitarian Model as an Emerging Arab Donor." Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. (February. 2020) https://bit.ly/36O9Agf

Elkahlout, Ghassan, Kareem Elgibali "From Theory to Practice: A Study of Remotely Managed Localized Humanitarian Action in Syria." Journal of Peacebuilding and Development    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1542316620922503

Adam-Bradford, A., Elkahlout, G., Byrne, R., & Rahman, M. (2020). Stabilisation agriculture: reviewing an emerging concept with case studies from Afghanistan and Iraq. CAB Reviews, 42, 1-10.

Elkahlout, Ghassan. "Shrinking the Humanitarian Space in Gaza Strip under Siege: Case Study." Siyasat Arabiya 45, (November 2020) (Arabic)

Elkahlout, Ghassan. "Challenges and Opportunities for Refugees in Host Countries: Jordan as a Case Study." Siyasat Arabiya 38, (May 2019): 50-62. https://bit.ly/36Ph0jm (Arabic)

Elkahlout, Ghassan. "Post-Conflict Housing Reconstruction in The Gaza Strip: A Case Study of Agency-Driven Housing in Sheikh Hamad City " International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis (July, 2019)

Barakat, Sultan, Sansom Milton, and Ghassan Elkahlout. "Reconstruction under Siege: The Gaza Strip since 2007." Disasters Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print (July 2019)

Elkahlout, Ghassan. "Reviewing the Interactions between Conflict and Demographic Trends in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Case of the Gaza Strip." Journal of Sustainable Development 11, no. 3 (May 2018): 212-222

Elkahlout, Ghassan "The Impact of the Gulf Crisis on the Qatari Humanitarian Action." Insaniyat Journal of Islam and Humanities, V.2 No. 2 (May 2018) 177 - 190 (Arabic) https://doi.org/10.15408/insaniyat.v2i2.8031

 

Published Books

Elkahlout, Ghassan. Humanitarian Action: Reality and Challenges (2021). Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha.