Staff

Sayed Ziafatullah Saeedi is a PhD candidate at bicc and the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on rebel governance, power-sharing and state capture. Ziafatullah has previously been affiliated with DAAD, AMENDS, and IWA, and his research includes analyses of conflict and corruption in Afghanistan and South Asia. He also runs The World Literature Program, an initiative through which young Afghan girls read well-known literary works and publish their own writings on literary platforms. He holds a master’s degree from the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at the University of Erfurt and a bachelor’s degree from the American University of Afghanistan.