Karma Nabulsi

Karma Nabulsi is an academic and former PLO representative. She is a senior lecturer in Political theory at the University of Oxford, a fellow of St Edmund Hall, and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations.

Nabulsi was a PLO representative from 1977-90 at the United Nations. She has written in the British press on the Palestinian experience and the British Government's 'Prevent' counter-terrorism strategy.

Nabulsi conducts research on 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the politics of Palestinian refugees, representation, and democracy.

In 2017, Nabulsi won the Guardian Higher Education Inspiring Leader award. She is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

• Exiled from Revolution, in Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home, eds. Johnson and Shehadeh, Interlink Press, 2013
• That the General Will Is Indestructible in Self-Evident Truths? Human Rights and the Enlightenment, The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, ed., Tunstall, Kate E. New York, Bloomsbury Academic. 2012
• The Role of Palestinian Intellectuals, in Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said, Sokmen and Ertur (eds.), Verso, 2008.
• Traditions of Justice in War: The Modern Debate in Historical Perspective, in Stathis N. Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro, and Tarek Masoud (eds.) Order, Conflict, and Violence, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Justice as the Way Forward in Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two State Solution, Muwatin (the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy), Zed Press, 2007.
• The Conception of Justice in War: from Grotius to Modern Times, in R. Sorabji and D. Rodin (eds), The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
• Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance. and the Law, Oxford University Press, 2005 (paperback edition).
• The Statebuilding Process: What Went Wrong?, in M. Keating, A. Le More and R. Lowe (eds), Aid, Diplomacy and Facts on the Ground: The Case of Palestine, London: Chatham House, 2005.
• La Guerre Sainte: Debates about Just War amongst Republicans in the Nineteenth Century, in S. Hazareesingh (ed), The Jacobin Tradition in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Evolving Conceptions of Civilians and Belligerents: One Hundred Years after the Hague Peace Conferences, in S. Chesterman (ed), Civilians in War, London: Lynne Rienner, 2001.
• Just War, Leve en Masse, and Jus ad Bellum Jus in Bello in Roy Gutman and David Rieff, eds., Crimes of War. New York, W.W. Norton, 1999.