Abdullah Jabassini is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Central European University in Vienna. He was previously a CIVICA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central European University and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, Canterbury. His research integrates mixed methods and focuses on political violence, civil war, rebel governance, organised crime, authoritarian conflict management, illiberal peacebuilding, and security sector reform.

Joseph Daher holds a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London (2015), and a PhD in Political Science from the Lausanne University, Switzerland (2018). He is the author of several books, including Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God (Pluto Press, 2016), Syria After the Uprising (Pluto Press, 2019), and Palestine and Marxism (Resistance Books, 2024). He taught at several universities, including the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), University Paris Dauphine (France) and the University of Ghent (Belgium). His research interests include political Islam, political economy, and development in the Middle East.