Dr Nada Ali is a full-time lecturer at SOAS College of Law, University of London. Nada’s research is primarily concerned with international law and the impact of international institutions – laws, norms and organizations – on developing countries. Her work is themed around governance, development and democratization and borrows from economics, political science and international relations. In her earlier work, Nada used game theory to gauge the effects of prosecutions by the International Criminal Court on internal political dynamics in developing countries. Sudan was used as a case study.
Nada conducted research on the construction of the Merowe Dam in Sudan for the Economic and Social Research Council and the Department for International Development. She was a producer and scriptwriter on the 2019 film Merowe Dam: a Shattered Dream. She contributed to the Economic Research Forum’s Hirak project and advised on policy issues arising out of the Sudan December Revolution which led to the collapse of Al-Bashir regime in 2019. She co-organised The Shaping and Reshaping of Political Conditions Research Seminar on Sudan in response to the October 2021 coup against the civilian transitional government under the leadership of Prime Minister Hamdock.
In addition to her work on Sudan, Nada is interested in the politics of international law and adopts a Third World approach to international law on issues of international criminal justice in the Global South. She is currently working on a paper titled “Baldwin’s “Lie of Whiteness” and the Question of Palestine.” She is also working on a book that uses feminist film theory to expose international and regional dynamics that led to the containment of the December Revolution and the eventual breakout of an all-out-war in Sudan in 2023.
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Commitments in search of purpose?
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