Arif Sahar
Research Fellow
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Room: E2.24
Profile
I am a political and social scientist with an interest in interdisciplinary research on the political economy of conflict in the Global South, especially focussing on Afghanistan. I also study international security and terrorism related issues. Currently, I am managing two large Horizon Europe projects and sit within the Interdisciplinary Ethics and Society Research Group.
I am also a visiting fellow at the University of South Wales, Cardiff.
Before joining Warwick, I was a researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), Sheffield Hallam University where I managed and contributed to three large Horizon Europe projects that focussed on the security and terrorism in the UK and the EU. I am supervising (with Professor Saskia Bayerl) Erin Lawlor | CENTRIC PhD project whose research focuses on the challenges and opportunities the health sector offers in relation to deradicalisation processes and practices in the UK and Australia.
I completed my PhD at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) on the political economy of conflict and its implications for education in Afghanistan, post 2001. I have published widely on Afghanistan, including around 20 journal articles and a couple of books.
Books:
Arif Sahar. 2026. Democracy, Ethnic Conflict and Peace in Afghanistan: The Hazara Factor. London/New York: Routledge.Link opens in a new windowThe full list of my publications can be accessed through my ORCID link: Arif Sahar (0000-0002-9512-8503) - ORCIDI have lived and worked in Afghanistan (2011-2015), where I held senior positions at national and international organisations.
I welcome PhD applications in the areas of international security, terrorism, violent extremism and radicalisation, higher/education, ethnic civil conflict, and political violence