Dr Ali Wardak

PhD Criminology

MA Sociology

BA (Hons) Law Jurisprudence (Class-A)

Certificate ‘Deprivation of Liberty and Human Rights’

Oct. 1992 – June 1995 Tutor of Criminology/Criminal Justice, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

June 1997 – July 2001 Award Co-ordinator, BSc (Hons) Criminology and BA (Hons) Criminal Justice Awards, HASS, University of Glamorgan, UK

July 2001 – October 2003 Director, (UK Home Office Funded) ‘Black and Asian Offenders’ Research Project, HASS, University of Glamorgan, UK

Sept. 2005 – July 2006 Co-ordinator, MSc Programme in Criminology & Criminal Justice, HLaSS, University of Glamorgan, UK

July 07 – Aug 07 Instructor of Criminal Law, Stage Training of Afghan Law/Shari’a Graduates/Working Judges, National Centre for Legal Training (NCLT), Kabul University, Afghanistan (A Max Planck Institute Supported Programme)

Oct. 2007 – Oct. 2008 Head, Capacity Building and Academic Exchange Programme, UNDP’s Centre for Policy and Human Development, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan

Voice President, South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV)

Main Teaching Areas:

Comparative Criminology; Trnsnational Crime and Justice; Criminological Theory

Wardak, A. (2009) ‘Rule of Law in Afghanistan: An Overview’ in LISD Petersberg Papers on Afghanistan, LCR No IV, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton University: New Jersey.

Wardak, A. (2009) ‘Rebuilding the Justice System in Afghanistan: Problems and Prospects’, Euro-Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 16 (pp 21 – 30).

Wardak, A. (Saba, D. and Kazem, H.) (2007) Bridging Modernity and Tradition:
the Rule of Law and the Search for Justice, Afghanistan National Human Development Report, UNDP/CPHD, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Wardak, A. (with Lewis et al) (2006) Race and Probation, London: Willan Publishers.

Wardak, A. and Cole (2006) ‘Black and Asian Men on Probation: Social Exclusion, Discrimination and Experiences of Criminal Justice’, in Race and Probation edited by Wardak, A. (with Lewis et al), London: Willan Publishers.

Wardak, A. and Sheptycki, J. and A (2005) Transnational and Comparative Criminology, London: Cavendish.

Wardak, A. (2006) ‘Structures of Authority and Local Dispute Settlement in Afghanistan’ in Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Middle Eastern Societies: Between Tradition and Modernity, Edited by Hans-Jörg Albrecht et al, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

Wardak, A. (2005) ‘Crime and Social Control in Saudi Arabia’ in Transnational and Comparative Criminology, Edited by J. Sheptycki and A. Wardak, London: Cavendish.

Wardak, A. (with Calverly, C. et al), (2004) Black and Asian Offenders on Probation, London: Home Office Study No 277, London: The Home Office

Wardak, A. (2004) ‘Building a Post-War justice System in Afghanistan’, Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 41.

Wardak, A. (with Johnson, C. et al) (2003) Afghanistan’s Political and Constitutional Development, Humanitarian Policy Group, Report (January), London: ODI/DFID.

Wardak, A. (2002) ‘The Mosque and Social Control in Edinburgh’s Muslim Community’ in Journal of Culture and Religion Vol. 3: No 2.

Wardak, A. (2000) Social Control and Deviance: A South Asian Community in Scotland, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

British Society of Criminology, UK

Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD), King’s College, London University, London

International Advisory Board, International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, Tamil Nadu, India

Academic Board, Institute for Afghan Studies, USA. (see www. institute-for-afghan-studies.org)

Editorial Board, Serrana (Academic Research Journal) Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan

Editorial Board, Research and Publication Centre, Dubai Police Academy, Dubai, UAE

2006 – 2007 Rule of Law and Human Development, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Kabul, Afghanistan

2007 – 2008 Capacity Building and Academic Exchange, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Kabul, Afghanistan

2003 – 2003 Independent Review of Persian and Pashto Translations of Published Reports, The Department of International Development (DFID), London, UK

2002 – 2003 A Field Study of Afghanistan’s Political and Constitutional Development, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, UK

2000 – 2001 A Field Study of ‘The Experiences of Ethnic Minority Children in South Wales Valleys’, Barnardo’s Funded Research project, Department of Sociology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

Research Interests

Cross-national Crime and Justice; State and Non-state Justice, Rule of Law; Conflict Resolution.

Current Research Activity

Gender and Customary Law in Afghanistan

The Challenges of Re-establishing Rule of Law in Afghanistan

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