Ali Wardak

Professor Dr Ali Wardak, who obtained his PhD degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, teaches criminology at the University of South Wales, and is a Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. His main teaching and research interests focus on restorative justice in the Middle East, transnational crime, and the relationships between state and non-state justice systems in the Global South. From 2006 to 2008, he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and co-authored the 2007 Afghanistan Human Development Report where, a ‘hybrid model’ of justice in Afghanistan is proposed. Professor Wardak has collaborated closely with Professor John Braithwaite of Australian National University on Peacebuilding Compared research project, and they jointly  won the 2013 Radzinowicz Memorial Prize (http://bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/14/bjc.azu035.extract). He is a Vice President of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (http://www.sascv.org/eb.html), and has been invited speaker at major conferences/forums in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States. Professor Wardak has published widely and in November 2017, he won the University of South Wales ‘Best International Impact Award’ (https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/prizes/the-2017-university-of-south-wales-best-international-impact-awar). Professor Wardak’s research was nominated for the 2018 Times Higher Education  Awards (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/education/three-welsh-universities-shortlisted-times-15114566), and his  research ‘Impact Case Study’ was selected for the  2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the UK (https://www.southwales.ac.uk/research/research-excellence-framework/ref-2021-impact-case-studies/a-hybrid-model-of-justice-system-in-afghanistan/). Professor Wardak recently co-authored a new book (with Prof Mohammad Al-Minshawi) entitled Restorative Justice: Concepts, Contexts and Applications that is to be published by Nayef Arab University of Security Sciences next month.