Samer Sharani

Samer Sharani is a PhD candidate in political science, at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. His doctoral dissertation focuses on agonistic peacebuilding. It investigates the theory of agonistic peace in relation to and against liberal peace and other critical alternatives, such as hybrid peace, indigenous/local peace, and deliberative peace. He incorporates complexity theory into agonistic peace theory to analyze the Syrian civil war, to navigate possible peace, and to extract local Ismaili imagination of peace. He also works on two other topics/ theories: ontological security and place/ home. He uses ontological security in analyzing war, trauma, and identity change during civil wars. He also utilizes the concept of home in his research about refugees. Home serves as a concept rooting politics in the mundane and everyday life, through which he seeks to develop how refugees and local people can use this concept as an emancipatory methodology of doing politics. Samer had an MA in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Sabanci University (2020), an MA in Management from Damascus University (2012), Syria, and his BA in dentistry from Damascus University (2010).