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B.A., M.A., Ph.D., American University

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Center for Global Peace
Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace

Biography

Abdul Aziz Said is professor and director of the American University’s Center for Global Peace.  He served as advisor to the Democratic Principles Working Group of the United States Department of State’s “Future of Iraq Project.”  He is consultant to the members of the Iraqi Governing Council.  He writes frequently to regional and international newspapers in the Arab world.  He has contributed editorials to the Washington Post and was featured in the Washington Post Magazine on June 22, 2003.

 Dr. Said is the senior ranking professor of international relations and the first occupant of the Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on and off campus, aimed at advancing our understanding of world peace.  He founded and served as director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division, in the School of International Service, which offers a Master of Arts degree and four dual or joint degree options, as well as concentrations at the Doctoral and Undergraduate levels. Dr. Said has written, co-authored and edited more than seventeen books.

Recent Courses Taught

• Total Peace
  
• Peace Paradigms
  
• Islamic Sources of Conflict Resolution
  
• Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency, & Nation Building
  
• Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution
  

Research Interest

• Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam
• Transformation
• US Foreign Policy
  

Publications (Selected)

BOOKS (Recent)

• Making Peace with Islam (co-authored with Nathan Funk, forthcoming, 2006).
• Contemporary Islam:  Dynamic, Not Static (co-edited with Meena Sharify-Funk and Mohammed Abu-Nimer, 2006).
• Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective, Fourth Edition (with Charles O. Lerche, Jr. and Charles O. Lerche, III), Prentice Hall: 1963, 1970, 1979, and 1995.Fourth Edition (with Charles O. Lerche, Jr. and Charles O. Lerche, III), Prentice Hall: 1963, 1970, 1979, and 1995.
• Cultural Diversity and Islam (co-edited with Meena Sharify-Funk), University of Press of America, 2003.
• Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practite (co-edited with Nathan C. Funk and Ayse Kadayifici), University Press of America, 2001.
• Ethnicity and U.S. Foreign Policy, ed., Second Edition, Praeger: 1977 and 1980.
• Ethnicity in an International Context, ed. (with L.R. Simmons), Transaction Books, 1976.
• Human Rights and World Order, ed., Transaction Books/Praeger, 1978.
• The New Sovereigns: Multinational Corporations as World Powers,. ed. (with L.R. Simmons), Prentice-Hall, 1971
• Theory of International Relations: The Crisis of Relevance, Prentice-Hall, 1968.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Dr. Said Contributes to learned journals, anthologies, and newspapers on current issues in global politics, including the American Journal of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, Peace Review, International Journal of Peace Studies, the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Enquirer and other newspapers in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Professional Practice

Professor Said is a frequent lecturer and participant in national and international peace conferences and dialogues and is deeply involved with a number of professional associations and Service Academies.  He has lectured in more than one hundred universities in the United States and all over the world. His past and current public service includes consulting the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the United Nations and the White House Committee on the Islamic World. He has served as the president of the regional chapter for the International Studies Association and as moderator for the Ecumenical Council of Washington. 

EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS (past and current):

• Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM)
• Center for Peace Building International
• Center for the Study of the Presidency:  National Committee to Unite a Divided America
• Common Ground
• Council on Foreign Relations:  Power-Sharing and Minority Rights in Iraq
• Council on US-Syrian Relations
• Creative Peace Building Initiatives
• Fulbright Senior Specialist Program
• Global Alliance for Transnational Education (GATE)
• Global Education Associates
• Human Rights Quarterly
• Human Rights International
• International Association of University Presidents: U.N. Commission on Arms Control
• International Center for Religion and Diplomacy
• International Journal of Nonviolence
• International Youth Advocate Foundation
• International Youth Advocate Program
• Jones International University-University of the Web
• Joint Program on Conflict Resolution. (Institute for Victims of Trauma)
• Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
• Kosmos Journal
• National Youth Advocate Program
• Nonviolence International
• Peace Review
• Peacebuilding & Development Institute
• Search for Common Ground
• Spirituality and Reality
• The National Peace Foundation
• The Omega Institute
• Washington National Cathedral Interfaith Curriculum Advisory Council
• Youth Advocate Program International
  

Awards (Selected)

• The University Faculty Award, Outstanding Service to the American University
• Outstanding Faculty Award Mortar Board
• Status of Lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, Department of State
• Grantee, The Rockefeller Foundation
• Grantee, The United States Institutes of Peace
• Grantee, National Endowment for Democracy
• Grantee, United States Agency for International Development
• Phi Epsilon Pi National Jewish Fraternity, Living Legend Award
• Abdul Aziz Said Phi Epsilon Pi Scholarship (named after)
• Multicultural Award, American University Office of Multicultural Affairs