Dr. Sultan Barakat

Dr. Sultan Barakat (PhD)

Professor

College of Public Policy

Emailsbarakat@hbku.edu.qa

Biography

Sultan Barakat is a Professor in Public Policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an Honorary Professor at the University of York. He is a world-renowned scholar, known for pioneering the study of war-torn societies and their recovery. Professor Barakat founded the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and directed it between 2016 and 2022. Previously, he served as the Director of Research at the Brookings Institutions Doha Center. At the University of York, he founded and led the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit between 1993 and 2019.

Professor Barakat has been published widely in academic referred journals. His book ‘After the Conflict: Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of War’, published by IB Tauris, was reprinted twice, in 2005 and 2010. He has also written books on the reconstruction of both Afghanistan and Iraq. His most recent book, ‘Understanding Influence: The Use of Statebuilding Research in British Policy’ was published by Ashgate in 2014.

Barakat has over 30 years of professional experience working on issues of conflict resolution, humanitarian response, statebuilding and post-conflict recovery and transition. He is regularly engaged in providing guidance as a Senior Adviser and Consultant to the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union, the Red Cross and a variety of governments. He has led major evaluations, peace negotiations and programming initiatives in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Nepal, Palestine, Philippines (Mindanao), Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan (Darfur), Syria, Uganda (Moyo and Adjumani) and Yemen.

Research Interests

Professor Barakat's research focus includes strategic conflict assessment and the linkage of context to policy; conflict mediation; the research-policy nexus; post-conflict reconstruction and state-fragility; humanitarian response; and reconstruction policy evaluation and value attribution. Underlying these themes is a principal research concern with public and humanitarian diplomacy. Much of Barakat's work is collaborative and cross-disciplinary and has had a substantial impact on the design and use of strategic conflict and stability assessments of war-affected and fragile states. His work has pioneered the use of reflexive 'participatory learning processes' in war-torn areas - most recently in Afghanistan and Yemen.

As Principal Investigator, Professor Barakat is the recipient of numerous large research grants from the UK's ESRC, FDCO, as well as the EU, World Bank, USIP, UNICEF and UNDP, amongst others. In 2020, he was named Principal Investigator on a $2.5 million MoFA grant to investigate the impact of Qatar’s Foreign Policy on conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction in the Arab world. Between 2019 and 2022, he was the co-investigator on a major Norwegian Research Council grant awarded to the Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI, Bergen) that was led by Dr. Antonio De Lauri in July 2022.

At HBKU, he is the recipient of a large grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support his work on Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021.

Experience

Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies.

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

2016-2022

Full Professor II in Politics

University of York
2014-2019
Special Advisor on internationalization to the University’s Vice-Chancellor. Appointed Honorary Professor at the University of York

2019 - Present
Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center.

The Brookings Institution (Washington D.C)
2014-2016
Founding Director of the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU)

University of York
1993-2014

Full Professor

University of York
2004
Associate Professor

University of York
2000
Assistant Professor

University of York
1996
Research Fellow

University of York
1993

Education

PhD

University of York; UK

1993

Advanced Diploma; Peacekeeping Mediation and Negotiation

The Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Center, Halifax; Canada
1995
Diploma; Disaster Management Certificate

Oxford Polytechnic; UK
1989

MA in Urban Planning and Conservation

University of York, UK
1989
BSc in Architectural Engineering

University of Jordan
1988

Selected Publications

Barakat, S. and T. Waldman, The Influence of Statebuilding Research on British Policy in Fragile States (London: Ashgate), pp280. ISBN 978-1-4724-2757-1
2014
(ed) Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq (New York: Routledge) ISBN:978-1-1367-6371-7
2008
(ed) After the Conflict: Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of War (London: I.B. Tauris). ISBN:978-1-8488-5417-8
2005
(ed) Reconstructing War-Torn Societies: Afghanistan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). ISBN:978-1-4039-2064-5
2004
Qatari Mediation: Between Ambition and Achievement, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 2014
2014
Referred Journal Articles:
Barakat, S. (2021) Necessary conditions for integrated approaches to the post-conflict recovery of cultural heritage in the Arab World, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 433-448. DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1799061. (Scopus L
2021
*Barakat, Sultan and Abunimer, Mohammad (2020) Localising Responses to Conflict and Crisis in Arab–Muslim Contexts, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 15(2):143-14, DOI: 10.1177/1542316620941766. (Scopus Listed).
2020
*Barakat, S. and Milton, S. (2020) Localisation Across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 15(2):143-146, DOI: 10.1177/1542316620922805. (Scopus Listed).
2020
*Barakat, S., Milton, S. and Elkahlout, G (2020). The impact of the Gulf crisis on Qatar's humanitarian sector, Disasters, Volume 44, Issue 1. (Scopus Listed).
2020
Barakat, S. (2020) Stagnation of Reconstruction in Gaza: Donor Delay over Subjective and Objective Concerns, Siyasat Arabia, Issue 45, July 2020, pp. 80-97. (in Arabic).
2020
*Barakat, S., Milton, S. and Elkahlout, G (2019). Reconstruction under Siege: the Gaza Strip since 2007, Disasters, Volume 44, Issue 2. (Scopus Listed). An advanced copy of this article has been included in a special Virtual issue to celebrate World Human
2019
*Barakat, Milton, S. and Elkahlout, G. The Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism: Old Wine in New Bottlenecks. The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 208-227, 2018. (Scopus Listed)
2018
*Barakat, S. and Elkahlout, G. (2018) Lessons Learned from Post-Conflict Recovery: Towards the Unification of Arab Efforts. Siyasat Arabia, Issue 30, January 2018, pp. 24-39. (in Arabic).
2018
*Barakat, S and Waldman, T. ‘Cumulative Influence: The Case of Political Settlements Research in British Policy’. Policy Studies, Volume 38, Issue 6, pp. 640-663., 2017. (Scopus Listed)
2017
Barakat, S and Milton, S. ‘Higher Education as the Catalyst of Recovery in Conflict-Affected Societies’ in Globalisation, Societies and Education, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 403-421, 2016. (Scopus Listed)
2016
Evans, Mark and S Barakat, Defining the Challenge, Making the Change: A Study of Public Administration Reform in Arab Transitions, UNDP, New York, 2015.
2015
Barakat, S and John Skelton ‘‘The Reconstruction of Post-War Kuwait: A Missed Opportunity?’, LSE Kuwait Programme Paper Series, No. 37 (2014).
2014
*Barakat, S and Waldman, T. ‘Conflict analysis for the twenty-first century’, Conflict, Security and Development, Vol, 13, No.3, pp 259-283, 2013. (Scopus Listed)
2013
Barakat, S. ‘The Qatari Spring: Qatar’s Emerging Role in Peacemaking’, LSE Kuwait Programme Paper Series, No. 24 (2012).
2012
*Barakat, S and Larson, A. ‘Fragile States: A Donor-serving Concept? Issues with Interpretations of Fragile Statehood in Afghanistan’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2013. (Scopus Listed)
2013
*Barakat, S and Evans, M. ‘Post-war reconstruction, policy transfer and the World Bank: The case of Afghanistan's National Solidarity Programme’, Policy Studies, Vol. 33, No, 6, 2012, pp. 541-565. (Scopus Listed)
2012
*Barakat, S., F. Hardman, D. Connolly and V. Sundaram ‘The Role of Basic Education in Post-Conflict Recovery’, in Comparative Education, Vol. 19, No.1., 2012. (Scopus Listed)
2012
*Barakat, S., Evans, M., Zyck, S.A. ‘Karzai's curse - legitimacy as stability in Afghanistan and other post-conflict environments’, Policy Studies, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 439-454, 2012. (Scopus Listed)
2012
*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘Housing Reconstruction as Socio-economic Recovery and State Building: Evidence from Southern Lebanon’, Housing Studies, Vol.26, No.1, pp.133-154, 2011. (Scopus Listed)
2011
*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘Afghanistan’s Insurgency and the Viability of a Political Settlement’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp.193-210, 2010. (Scopus Listed)
2010
*Barakat, S., Deely, S., and Zyck, S.A. ‘’A tradition of forgetting’: stabilization and humanitarian action in historical perspective’, Disasters, Vol.34, p.297-319, 2010. (Scopus Listed)
2010
Barakat, S. ‘The failed promise of multi-donor trust funds: aid financing as an impediment to effective state building in post-conflict contexts’, Policy Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2009, pp.107-126, 2009. (Scopus Listed)
2009
*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘The Evolution of Post-war Recovery’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp.1069-1086, 2009. (Scopus Listed)
2009
*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘The State Building Implications of Post-Conflict Demilitarization: Military Downsizing in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol.30, No. 3, pp.548-72, 2009
2009
Barakat, S. and Ozerdem, A. ‘Impact of the reintegration of former KLA combatants on the post-war recovery of Kosovo’, International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol 10, No 1, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 27-45, 2005.
2005
Barakat, S., Chard, M. and Jones, R. ‘Attributing Value: evaluating success and failure in post-war reconstruction’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4&5, pp. 831-852, 2005. (Scopus Listed)
2005
Barakat, S. ‘Post-Saddam Iraq: Deconstructing a Regime, Reconstructing a Nation’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4&5, 2005, pp. 571-592, 2005. (Scopus Listed)
2005
Barakat, S. ‘Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq: An Introduction’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4&5, 2005, pp. 565-570, 2005. (Scopus Listed)
2005
*Barakat, S., Elkahlout, G. and Jacoby, T. ‘The Reconstruction of Housing in Palestine 1993-2000: A Case Study from Gaza Strip’, Housing Studies, Vol 19, No 2, March, pp. 175-192, 2004. (Scopus Listed)
2004
*Barakat, S. and Kapisazovic, Z. ‘Being Lokalci: Evaluating the Impact of International Aid Agencies on Local Human Resources:

The Case of Post-war Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina’, The European Journal of Development Research, Vol.15, No.1, June, pp. 55-72, 2003. (Scopus Listed)
2003
*Barakat, S., Connolly, D. and Large, J. ‘Winning and Losing in Aceh: Five Key Dilemmas in Third-Party Intervention’, Civil Wars, Vol 5, Issue No.4, pp. 1-32, 2002.
2002
*Barakat, S. and Wardell, G. ‘Exploited by whom? An alternative perspective on humanitarian assistance to Afghan women’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp. 909-930, 2002. (Scopus Listed)
2002
*Barakat, S. and Chard, M. ‘Theories, rhetoric and practice: recovering the capacities of war-torn societies’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp.817-836, 2002. (Scopus Listed)
2002
* Barakat, S., Chard, M., Jacoby, T. and Lume, W. (2002) ‘The composite approach: research design in the context of war and armed conflict’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp. 991-1003. (Scopus Listed)
2002
*Pelling, M., Ozerdem, A. and Barakat, S. 'The Macro-Economic Impact of Disasters', Progress in Development Studies, Vol.2, Issue No. 4, 2002, pp. 283-305, 2002.
2002
*Barakat, S. ‘Setting the scene for Afghanistan’s reconstruction: the challenges and critical dilemmas, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp. 801-816, 2002. (Scopus Listed)
2002
Ozerdem, A. and Barakat, S. ‘After the Marmara Earthquake: Lessons for Avoiding Short Cuts to Disasters', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, No 3, pp. 425-439, 2000. (Scopus Listed)
2000
* Barakat, S. and Strand, A. ‘Forced migration and dilemmas of humanitarian assistance: challenges for applied research', Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 134-136, 2000. (Scopus Listed)
2000
* Barakat, S. and Daher, R. ‘The Cultural Heritage and the Nature of Disasters in Jordan and Palestine', Cultural Resource Management, Vol. 23, No.6, pp. 39-43, 2000.
2000
Service:
Jury Member of the Qatari Ministry of Education and Higher Education's Excellence Award for the Masters Degree category.
2018 ongoing
Member of the Advisory Board of the Humanitarian Policy Group, the largest and most prestigious global think-tank on humanitarian and development issues based at the Overseas Development Institute, London.
2008 to present
Member of the RCUK commissioning panel for the establishment of research centers addressing Global Challenges, 2016-2019. The panel was responsible for the allocation of some £1.5 billion in research funds.
2016-2019
Member of the FCDO-ESRC Commissioning Panel for research on poverty reduction for the 2015 and 2016 rounds. The Panel was responsible for evaluating and allocating some $20 million of research grants.
2015-2016
Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Doha Center, Qatar.
1st September 2013 until 31st May 2014
Recipient of the University of York Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Award for Excellence in 2011.
2011
Received an Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Institute of International Education, New York, in recognition of his work on the rehabilitation of Iraq's higher education, June 2009.
2009
Member of the Hague Club on Migration and Development, an international council of heads of related United Nation Agencies (including UNHCR, IOM and UNRWA), CEOs of multinational companies (e.g. Shell, Total and IKEA)

A select number of NGO and academic representatives, chaired by Prince Constantine of the Netherlands.
November 2008 to present
Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES).
2006-present.
Member of the Forum 2000, invited by Václav Havel in 2011.
2011
Moderator for the West Asia North Africa Forum (WANA) on behalf of HRH Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan and Martti Ahtisaari (Former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Laureate 2008).

The forum aims to create new forms of peaceful dialogue and developmental collaboration across the region.
2008

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

Dr. Sultan Barakat (PhD)

Biography

Research Interests

Experience

Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies.

Full Professor II in Politics

Special Advisor on internationalization to the University’s Vice-Chancellor. Appointed Honorary Professor at the University of York

Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center.

Founding Director of the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU)

Full Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Research Fellow

Education

PhD

Advanced Diploma; Peacekeeping Mediation and Negotiation

Diploma; Disaster Management Certificate

MA in Urban Planning and Conservation

BSc in Architectural Engineering

Selected Publications

Barakat, S. and T. Waldman, The Influence of Statebuilding Research on British Policy in Fragile States (London: Ashgate), pp280. ISBN 978-1-4724-2757-1

(ed) Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq (New York: Routledge) ISBN:978-1-1367-6371-7

(ed) After the Conflict: Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of War (London: I.B. Tauris). ISBN:978-1-8488-5417-8

(ed) Reconstructing War-Torn Societies: Afghanistan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). ISBN:978-1-4039-2064-5

Qatari Mediation: Between Ambition and Achievement, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 2014

Referred Journal Articles:

Barakat, S. (2021) Necessary conditions for integrated approaches to the post-conflict recovery of cultural heritage in the Arab World, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 27, Issue 5, pp. 433-448. DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1799061. (Scopus L

*Barakat, Sultan and Abunimer, Mohammad (2020) Localising Responses to Conflict and Crisis in Arab–Muslim Contexts, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 15(2):143-14, DOI: 10.1177/1542316620941766. (Scopus Listed).

*Barakat, S. and Milton, S. (2020) Localisation Across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 15(2):143-146, DOI: 10.1177/1542316620922805. (Scopus Listed).

*Barakat, S., Milton, S. and Elkahlout, G (2020). The impact of the Gulf crisis on Qatar's humanitarian sector, Disasters, Volume 44, Issue 1. (Scopus Listed).

Barakat, S. (2020) Stagnation of Reconstruction in Gaza: Donor Delay over Subjective and Objective Concerns, Siyasat Arabia, Issue 45, July 2020, pp. 80-97. (in Arabic).

*Barakat, S., Milton, S. and Elkahlout, G (2019). Reconstruction under Siege: the Gaza Strip since 2007, Disasters, Volume 44, Issue 2. (Scopus Listed). An advanced copy of this article has been included in a special Virtual issue to celebrate World Human

*Barakat, Milton, S. and Elkahlout, G. The Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism: Old Wine in New Bottlenecks. The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Volume 12, Issue 2, pp. 208-227, 2018. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Elkahlout, G. (2018) Lessons Learned from Post-Conflict Recovery: Towards the Unification of Arab Efforts. Siyasat Arabia, Issue 30, January 2018, pp. 24-39. (in Arabic).

*Barakat, S and Waldman, T. ‘Cumulative Influence: The Case of Political Settlements Research in British Policy’. Policy Studies, Volume 38, Issue 6, pp. 640-663., 2017. (Scopus Listed)

Barakat, S and Milton, S. ‘Higher Education as the Catalyst of Recovery in Conflict-Affected Societies’ in Globalisation, Societies and Education, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 403-421, 2016. (Scopus Listed)

Evans, Mark and S Barakat, Defining the Challenge, Making the Change: A Study of Public Administration Reform in Arab Transitions, UNDP, New York, 2015.

Barakat, S and John Skelton ‘‘The Reconstruction of Post-War Kuwait: A Missed Opportunity?’, LSE Kuwait Programme Paper Series, No. 37 (2014).

*Barakat, S and Waldman, T. ‘Conflict analysis for the twenty-first century’, Conflict, Security and Development, Vol, 13, No.3, pp 259-283, 2013. (Scopus Listed)

Barakat, S. ‘The Qatari Spring: Qatar’s Emerging Role in Peacemaking’, LSE Kuwait Programme Paper Series, No. 24 (2012).

*Barakat, S and Larson, A. ‘Fragile States: A Donor-serving Concept? Issues with Interpretations of Fragile Statehood in Afghanistan’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2013. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S and Evans, M. ‘Post-war reconstruction, policy transfer and the World Bank: The case of Afghanistan's National Solidarity Programme’, Policy Studies, Vol. 33, No, 6, 2012, pp. 541-565. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S., F. Hardman, D. Connolly and V. Sundaram ‘The Role of Basic Education in Post-Conflict Recovery’, in Comparative Education, Vol. 19, No.1., 2012. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S., Evans, M., Zyck, S.A. ‘Karzai's curse - legitimacy as stability in Afghanistan and other post-conflict environments’, Policy Studies, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 439-454, 2012. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘Housing Reconstruction as Socio-economic Recovery and State Building: Evidence from Southern Lebanon’, Housing Studies, Vol.26, No.1, pp.133-154, 2011. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘Afghanistan’s Insurgency and the Viability of a Political Settlement’, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp.193-210, 2010. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S., Deely, S., and Zyck, S.A. ‘’A tradition of forgetting’: stabilization and humanitarian action in historical perspective’, Disasters, Vol.34, p.297-319, 2010. (Scopus Listed)

Barakat, S. ‘The failed promise of multi-donor trust funds: aid financing as an impediment to effective state building in post-conflict contexts’, Policy Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2009, pp.107-126, 2009. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘The Evolution of Post-war Recovery’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp.1069-1086, 2009. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Zyck, S.A. ‘The State Building Implications of Post-Conflict Demilitarization: Military Downsizing in Bosnia and Herzegovina’, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol.30, No. 3, pp.548-72, 2009

Barakat, S. and Ozerdem, A. ‘Impact of the reintegration of former KLA combatants on the post-war recovery of Kosovo’, International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol 10, No 1, Spring/Summer 2005, pp. 27-45, 2005.

Barakat, S., Chard, M. and Jones, R. ‘Attributing Value: evaluating success and failure in post-war reconstruction’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4&5, pp. 831-852, 2005. (Scopus Listed)

Barakat, S. ‘Post-Saddam Iraq: Deconstructing a Regime, Reconstructing a Nation’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4&5, 2005, pp. 571-592, 2005. (Scopus Listed)

Barakat, S. ‘Reconstructing Post-Saddam Iraq: An Introduction’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 4&5, 2005, pp. 565-570, 2005. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S., Elkahlout, G. and Jacoby, T. ‘The Reconstruction of Housing in Palestine 1993-2000: A Case Study from Gaza Strip’, Housing Studies, Vol 19, No 2, March, pp. 175-192, 2004. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Kapisazovic, Z. ‘Being Lokalci: Evaluating the Impact of International Aid Agencies on Local Human Resources:

*Barakat, S., Connolly, D. and Large, J. ‘Winning and Losing in Aceh: Five Key Dilemmas in Third-Party Intervention’, Civil Wars, Vol 5, Issue No.4, pp. 1-32, 2002.

*Barakat, S. and Wardell, G. ‘Exploited by whom? An alternative perspective on humanitarian assistance to Afghan women’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp. 909-930, 2002. (Scopus Listed)

*Barakat, S. and Chard, M. ‘Theories, rhetoric and practice: recovering the capacities of war-torn societies’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp.817-836, 2002. (Scopus Listed)

* Barakat, S., Chard, M., Jacoby, T. and Lume, W. (2002) ‘The composite approach: research design in the context of war and armed conflict’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp. 991-1003. (Scopus Listed)

*Pelling, M., Ozerdem, A. and Barakat, S. 'The Macro-Economic Impact of Disasters', Progress in Development Studies, Vol.2, Issue No. 4, 2002, pp. 283-305, 2002.

*Barakat, S. ‘Setting the scene for Afghanistan’s reconstruction: the challenges and critical dilemmas, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No.5, 2002, pp. 801-816, 2002. (Scopus Listed)

Ozerdem, A. and Barakat, S. ‘After the Marmara Earthquake: Lessons for Avoiding Short Cuts to Disasters', Third World Quarterly, Vol. 21, No 3, pp. 425-439, 2000. (Scopus Listed)

* Barakat, S. and Strand, A. ‘Forced migration and dilemmas of humanitarian assistance: challenges for applied research', Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 134-136, 2000. (Scopus Listed)

* Barakat, S. and Daher, R. ‘The Cultural Heritage and the Nature of Disasters in Jordan and Palestine', Cultural Resource Management, Vol. 23, No.6, pp. 39-43, 2000.

Service:

Jury Member of the Qatari Ministry of Education and Higher Education's Excellence Award for the Masters Degree category.

Member of the Advisory Board of the Humanitarian Policy Group, the largest and most prestigious global think-tank on humanitarian and development issues based at the Overseas Development Institute, London.

Member of the RCUK commissioning panel for the establishment of research centers addressing Global Challenges, 2016-2019. The panel was responsible for the allocation of some £1.5 billion in research funds.

Member of the FCDO-ESRC Commissioning Panel for research on poverty reduction for the 2015 and 2016 rounds. The Panel was responsible for evaluating and allocating some $20 million of research grants.

Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Doha Center, Qatar.

Recipient of the University of York Vice-Chancellor’s Gold Award for Excellence in 2011.

Received an Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Institute of International Education, New York, in recognition of his work on the rehabilitation of Iraq's higher education, June 2009.

Member of the Hague Club on Migration and Development, an international council of heads of related United Nation Agencies (including UNHCR, IOM and UNRWA), CEOs of multinational companies (e.g. Shell, Total and IKEA)

Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES).

Member of the Forum 2000, invited by Václav Havel in 2011.

Moderator for the West Asia North Africa Forum (WANA) on behalf of HRH Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan and Martti Ahtisaari (Former President of Finland and Nobel Peace Laureate 2008).