Fadi Nicholas Nassar is Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution and Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He is also the US–Lebanon Fellow at the Middle East Institute; Fellow at The Sectarianism, Proxies and De-sectarianisation (SEPAD) project based at Lancaster University's Richardson Institute; and Research Fellow at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS). He holds a PhD from the War Studies Department at King's College London.