Dr. Masouma Qanbari

• Security studies: With a focus on human security, emerging security challenges, water security, and climate change.
• Peace studies: The study of international relations and world order, with an emphasis on the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
• Asian studies: With a focus on foreign policy and regional security in South and West Asia.

2024–2025
Teaching Assistant at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2018–2019
Executive Director of Bolandaye Andishe Scientific-Student Journal, Tehran, Iran

2016–2017
Human Resource Officer, Reliance Power Company, Kabul, Afghanistan

2014–2016
Secretary of Faculty of Medicine, Khatam Al-Nabieen University, Kabul, Afghanistan

2013–2014  
Teacher at Hadye College, Kabul, Afghanistan
 

2019–2025
Ph.D. candidate in International Relations
Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Thesis title: “Hydropolitical Security Complex and Water Interactions in the Euphrates and Jordan River Basins."
Supervisor: Dr. Vali Golmohammadi

2017–2019
Master of International Relations
Ahl Al-Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran
Thesis title: “The Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization in post-Taliban Afghanistan”
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad-Sadeq Nosratpanah

2008–2013
Bachelor of Political Science
Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

2026–
Postdoc Research fellow at the TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany.
 

Since 2026
Member of Afghanistan Working Group. Freiburg, Germany

Since 2024
Member of the Network of Afghan and Iranian Water Scholars (Online Working Group).
 

Persian—First Language

English—B2 

Arabic—B2

German—A2

Italian—A1

Golmohammadi, V., I. Najafi, and M. Qanbari. "Shifting Waters, Shifting Power Dynamics: Integrating Painted Water with Hydropolitical Security Complex Theory in the Euphrates and Jordan Basins." Water International. Under review.

Najafi, I., M. Mousavi Shafaee, V. Golmohammadi, and M. Qanbari. "Insulator State and the Long-Lasting Instability in Afghanistan: A Region-Specific Approach." Central Asian Survey. Under review.

Qanbari, M., V. Golmohammadi, and S. M. Mosavi Shafaee. "Majmueh-ye Amniyati-Hydropolityki va Saz-o-Kar-ha-ye Ta'amolat-e Abi dar Hovzeh-ye Ordon" [Hydro-political security complex impact on water interaction mechanisms in the Jordan Basin]. Faslname-ye Siyasat 55, no. 1 (2025): 215–43. https://doi.org/10.22059/jpq.2025.384143.1008229. (In Persian.)

Qanbari, M., V. Golmohammadi, M. Mousavi Shafaee, and M. R. Shahbazbegian. "Majmueh-ye Amniyati-Hydropolityki va Saz-o-Kar-ha-ye Ta'amolat-e Abi dar Hovzeh-ye Forat" [Hydropolitical-Security Complex and Water Interaction Mechanisms in the Euphrates Basin]. Motale'at-e Khavar-e Miyaneh 31, no. 2 (2024): 115–34. (In Persian.)

Qanbari, M. "Comparative Study of Bush–Obama Foreign Policy on Terrorism in Afghanistan." Negahe Moaser Scientific-Specialized Quarterly (2019). (In Persian.)

Qanbari, M. "Barresi-ye Naghsh-e Sazman-e Melal dar Bohran-e Sudan" [Investigating the Role of the United Nations in the Sudan Crisis]. Sadr Scientific Quarterly 3, no. 5 (2018): 91–107. (In Persian.)

Qanbari, M. "Barresi-ye Tasir-e Enghelab-e Iran bar Siasat-e Khareji-ye Amrika dar Khavar-e Miyaneh" [Investigating the Impact of the Iranian Revolution on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East]. Sadr Scientific Quarterly 3, no. 4 (2018): 31–48. (In Persian.)

Qanbari, M. "Barresi-ye Chalesh-ha-ye Shekl-giri-ye Hoviyat-e Melli dar Afghanistan" [Obstacles to the Formation of National Identity in Afghanistan]. Sadr Scientific Quarterly 2, no. 3 (2017): 77–102. (In Persian.) 

Qanbari, Masouma, and Mohammad Reza Shahbazbegian. "Revisiting International Water Law Principles from the 'Painted Water' Lens." In The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Policy and Law. Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Futures, 311–21. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30231-2_32-1.

Network of Afghan and Iranian Water Scholars (NAIWS). Online series of Workshops. 2024–present. 

University of Oxford Global Youth Climate Training, organized by the Global Youth Coalition. Online series of Workshops. March 3–October 5, 2023.

Skills in Political Analysis Workshop, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. March 3, 2021.

Changing Global Order and the Middle East at Crossroads: An Iranian Perspective, Allameh Tabatabai
University, Tehran, Iran. September 1–12, 2020.

The Concept of Positive Peace and Peace-Building, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. December 29, 2019.

Negotiation Principles and Techniques Workshop, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. December 23, 2019

Security in International Relations Theories, Ahlul Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran. November 25–27, 2017.

 Applying Game Theory in International Relations, Ahlul Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran. November 12–15, 2017.
 

Qanbari, M. "Afghanistan's Transboundary Basins and Regional Security." Walk-poster presented at the 6th Conference on Afghanistan, Freiburg, Germany, July 10–11, 2026.

Jalali, M., M. Qanbari, and M. Shahbazbegian. "Reinforcement of the Hydropolitical Self-Organization Approach in the Hamon Wetland Restoration." Paper presented at the University of Tehran International Conference on Hamun Wetlands Environment, Tehran, Iran, 2024.

Qanbari, M. "Examining the Opportunities and Challenges of the Globalization Economy in Post-Taliban Afghanistan." Paper presented at the First Conference of the Scientific-Research Quarterly of Saber Institute of Higher Education, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2019.

Qanbari, M. Neoclassical Analysis of Afghanistan's Foreign Policy (2001–2014). Kabul: Centre for Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, 2020. (In Persian.)