Complementary expertise
BEYOND's Advisory Board consists of five renowned scholars with complementary areas of expertise. In addition to Dr. Hossain, the Advisory Board consists of Dr. Lamis Abdelaaty, Prof. Peter Gatrell, Prof. Marjoleine Zieck and Dr. Abdullah Omar Yassen.
The Advisory Board will be involved in various stages of the research project, offering input and guidance to the project team. Each Advisory Board member will also be invited for a shorter stay at the University of Oslo in connection with BEYOND's project activities.
The members of the Advisory Board bring expertise on highly relevant areas for the project, ranging from International Relations and Migration Law to Refugee History. Some of the members also have backgrounds from BEYOND's case study countries and/or personal experience of forced displacement.
BEYOND PI Maja Janmyr is thrilled to have on board a full Advisory Board.
- The BEYOND project is very privileged to be able to draw on the expertise of such a diverse and competent Advisory Board. We look forward to working together in the years ahead, says Janmyr.
The Advisory Board
Lamis Abdelaaty is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Her research focuses on asylum and migration from the discipline of International Relations.
Abdelaaty's recent book, "Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees", asks why countries open their borders to some refugees while blocking others, and why a number of countries have given the United Nations control of asylum procedures and refugee camps on their territory.
M Sanjeeb Hossain is Director of Research at Centre for Peace and Justice (CPJ) at Brac University, Dhaka. Over the past decade, Hossain's research has revolved around themes within International Refugee Law, International Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Legal History and Politics, with a special focus on Bangladesh.
Before joining CPJ, Hossain was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo and a Teaching Fellow at the Warwick Law School. He is part of the Horizon 2020-project ASILE, where his research focuses on the Rohingya refugee situation in Bangladesh.
Peter Gatrell is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. As a historian of population displacement in the modern world, his research has included projects on displacement, state-building and social identity in the aftermath of the First World War and the Second World War.
Gatrell has also published extensively on the history of humanitarianism, including on the United Nations.
Marjoleine Zieck is Professor of International Refugee Law at the Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam and Professor at the Pakistan College of Law, Lahore.
Zieck has published broadly on International Refugee Law as well as the status of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. She has also conducted extensive research on UNHCR, which has resulted on three books on the agency’s practice.
Abdullah Omar Yassen is Assistant Professor in Public International Law, and Head of Cultural Relations, International Office, at the Erbil Polytechnic University.
Yassen has published several papers in the field of forced migration, refugee law, and minority rights. He is also a researcher on BEYOND’s sister project REF-ARAB.