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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES – Mohammed Abu-Nimer

Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Professor
International Peace & Conflict Resolution

Phone
202-885-1656

Fax
202-885-2494

E-Mail
abunimer@american.edu

Location
Clark, Room 209

Web site
www.aupeace.org/faculty/abu-nimer

Biography
Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a Professor in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program at the School of International Service. He is also Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at American University. An expert on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace, Dr. Abu-Nimer has conducted research on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace among Palestinians and Jews in Israel. His work has focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on application of conflict resolution models in Muslim communities. Dr. Abu-Nimer has also conducted interreligious conflict resolution training, and interfaith dialogue. In the last decade, Dr. Abu-Nimer has completed many evaluation projects and reports of peacebuilding and development programs. As a scholar/practitioner, he has been intervening and conducting conflict resolution training workshops in many conflict areas around the world, including Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Philippines (Mindanao), Sri Lanka and other areas. In addition to his numerous articles and publications, Abu-Nimer is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.

Education
PhD, Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
BA, MA, Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Languages
Arabic
English
Hebrew

Publications

Selected Books

• Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East. Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Amal Khoury, and Emily Welty. USIP, 2007.
• Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide For Muslims (With Dr. Muhammad Shafiq), Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue (CISD) Salam: Peace and Justice Institute, and International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), July, 2007.
• Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static. (Eds.) Abdul Aziz Said, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, and Meena Sharify-Funk. New York: Routledge Press, 2006.
• A Shared Future: Local Capacities for Peace in Community Development. Michelle Garred. (Ed) with Mohammed Abu-Nimer. CA: World Vision, 2006.
• Muslim-Christian Conversations For Peace. Fuller Theological Seminary & Salam Institute of Peace and Justice. David Augsburger and Mohammed Abu-Nimer. August 2006.
• Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islam: Theory and Practice. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.
• Positive Approaches for Peace. (Eds.) Cynthia Sampson. Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Claudia Liebler. Washington DC: PACT publications, 2003.
• Reconciliation, Coexistence, and Justice: Theory and Practice. (Ed.) New York: Rowman & Little Field, 2001.
• Traditions and Transitions in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Vol. 6, edited by Laura Zittrain Eisenberg, Neil Caplan, Naomi B. Sokoloff and Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
• Dialogue, Conflict Resolution and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel, SUNY Press, Spring 1999.

• "Peace Education in a Bilingual and Bi-ethnic School for Palestinians and Jews in Israel: Lessons and Challenges." Ilham Nasser and Mohammed Abu-Nimer. In: Educational Response to Conflict: Systemic issues. Macmillan Palgrave (Eds.). Zvi Bekerman (2007).
• Mohammed Abu Nimer and Ned Lazarus. "The Peacebuilders Paradox and the Dynamics of Dialogue: Psychosocial Approaches to Israeli/Palestinian Peacebuilding". In: "Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding between Palestinians and Israelis". (J. Kuriansky ed.) (Greenwood Press, 2007).
• "Nonviolent Action in Israel and Palestine: A Growing Force". In: Bridging the Divide: Peacebuilding in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. (Eds.). Edy Kaufman, Walid Salem, and Juliette Verhoeven. New York: Lynne Rienner, 2006. (Also Translated into Italian)
• "Bridging Conflict Resolution and Human Rights: Promises and Challenges." In: Human Rights and Conflict. (Eds.). Julie Mertus and Jeff Helsing (Eds.) Washington DC: USIP April 2006.
• "Pax Americana and the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East: An Arab Post-Iraq War Perspective" in War and Border Crossings. (ed.) Peter French Rowman and Littlefield, MD. 2005.
• "Federalism in Islam: Principles and Values." In: Federalism Tool for Conflict Management in multicultural societies with regard to the conflicts in the Middle East Thomas Fleiner. The Institute of Federalism Fribourg, Switzerland. (Unpublished manuscript)
• (With Amal Khoury) "September 11 and the Palestinian Reaction: No Win." In: Multiple Voices. Notre Dame University. Scott Appleby and Abdul Rasheid Omar (Unpublished manuscript)
• "Toward the Theory and Practice of Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding." In: Positive Approaches for Peace. (Eds.) Cynthia Sampson. Mohammed Abu-Nimer. Claudia Liebler. Washington DC: PACT publications, 2003.
• (With Amal Khoury and Lynn Kunkle). The Muslim World Reacts to September 11. History Behind The Headlines. The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide. Vol. 5. (Ed) Nancy Matuzak. New York: Thompson Gale. (pp. 209-244).
• "Seeking Justice and Reconciliation through Arab-Jewish Coexistence Encounters in Israel." In: Reconciliation in Global Perspective: Theory and Practice. (Ed.) Alice Akermann. (Washington, DC: USIP, unpublished manuscript).
• "The Miracles of Transformation through Interfaith Dialogue: Are you a Believer?" In: Interfaith Dialogue. (Ed) David Smock. Washington DC.: USIP, 2002.
• "Reconciliation and Justice in Arab-Jewish Dialogue in Israel: Potential and Challenges." Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence: Theory and Practice. Mohammed Abu-Nimer (Ed.) New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
• "Conflict Resolution in Islamic Context." Conflict Resolution in Islam. Abdul Aziz Said, Nathan Funk and Ayse Kadayifici (Eds.), Lanham and New York: University Press of America, 2001.
• "Contrasts in Conflict Management in Cleveland and Palestine." Traditional Cures For Modern Conflicts: African Conflict "Medicine". William Zartman (ed.), Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienners, 2000.
• Abu-Nimer, M. and Sharoni, Shimona. "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Understanding The Contemporary Middle East. (Ed.) Deborah Gerner, Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienners, (2000 and 2004).
• "Dialogue and National Consensus: Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists Pre-Madrid Conference: Dilemmas of Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists." Books on Israel, K. Avruch (Ed.), New York: SUNY Press, 1997.
• Principles and Strategies of Peacebuilding Training. In: Leadership and Building State Capacity: Combining the skills of Diplomats and Trainers. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Washington, DC. 2006.

• Abu-Nimer, Mohammed and Ayse Kadayifci. Muslim Peace Building Actors in Africa and the Balkans. Journal Peace and Change (Forthcoming July 2008).
• Religious Contribution to Dialogue and Nonviolence Actions in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Possibilities and Obstacles. Palestinian Society and History Review. Vol. 2. Spring 2007 (Arabic).
• We Make Friends with Our Enemies. Yale Israel Journal, Special Issue on Israel Palestine Elections, 2006.
• Religion, Dialogue, and Nonviolence Actions in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring 2004).
• Change Through Dialogue: The Case of Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel. Journal of Social Issues (Special Issue on: Improving Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel: Theory and Practice in Coexistence Education Programs, 60 (2) 2004.
• Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue in the Second Intifada: between Despair and Hope. Global Dialogue. vol. 4, no. 3, summer 2002, 130-1143.
• Another Voice Against the War. The Arab World Geographer Vol. 4, No. 2, 2001 (pp. 15-18).
• Conflict Resolution, Culture, and Religion: Toward a Training Model of Interreligious Peacebuilding. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 38, No. 6, 2000, pp. 685-704.
• A Framework for Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islam. Journal of Law and Religion. Vol. 15, No. 1 and 2, 2001.
• Peace-Building in Postsettlement: Challenges for Israeli and Palestinian Peace Education. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 6 No. 1, 2000 (pp. 1-21).
• Conflict Resolution Training in the Middle East: Lessons To Be Learned. International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Special Issue on International Training of Conflict Resolution, 3:99-116, 1998.

Selected Awards

• Jennings Randolph Senior Peace Fellow, USIP 2008
• Morton Deutsch Award 2005
• Visiting Research Fellow, Henry Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace 1999-2000
• Fellowship from the American Research Center in Egypt, New York, 1996-97
• A "Peace Scholar" Award-USIP (United States Institute for Peace), Washington, D.C, September 1991-September 1992

Selected Advisory Boards

• Co-Editor of Journal of Development and Peacebuilding (Co-Founder of the Journal)
• Coexistence International Advisory Board, Brandies University
• Editorial Board of International Journal of Transitional Justice. Oxford University Press
• Mosaica: The Jerusalem Center for Inter-religious Cooperation
• Governing Board of World Dialogue
• Advisory Board for Hand Along the Nile
• Steering Executive committee for International Conference on Nonviolence (Nonviolence International)
• Advisory Board of Abrahams Vision
• Board of Trustees of Israeli Palestinian Research and Information Center, (IPCRI) USA
• International Advisory Board for Palestinian Review Journal
• Advisory Review Board Just Vision: Middle Eastern Peace Initiative
• Advisory Board Educators for Social Responsibility
• Advisory Committee for Islamic Conflict Resolution Conference
• Member of Advisory Committee of Kumarian Press
• Executive Committee. Peace Studies Section. International Studies Association (ISA)
• United States Institute of Peace, review board for Peace Scholar dissertation fellowships
• Editorial board of OJPCR: The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution
• Reviewing board, Grant Program of the United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
• Board member of Center for Global Peace, American University, Washington DC
• Executive Committee of Peace Studies at International Association Studies (ISA)

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