Join ACCS co-director Dr. Erella Grassiani for our first Breakfast Briefing to gain more insights into ongoing government formations, opportunities and challenges, and what the outcomes may mean for the future.

About the speaker

Erella Grassiani is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. She currently serves as the director of the Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS) at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). She studies the Israeli security industry and its effects on human rights worldwide. She also works nationalist militias and social movements in Israel and she studies the politics of trees in her project on arboreal nationalism.

In the past she has done extensive research on the Israeli military and published a book on the topic: Soldiering under Occupation processes of Numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2013 Berghahn Books). She is the co-editor of Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision (2019 Routledge) and of The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (2023 Routledge). She further is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conflict and Society: Advances in Research (Berghahn).