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Hind Haider
Program Specialist, Muslim World Initiative

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Phone: 202-429-7173

E-mail: hhaider@usip.org

Languages: Arabic

Hind Haider joined USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention in February 2006, where her work focuses on issues of democratization and political reform in the Middle East and wider Islamic world. Prior to joining USIP, she served as the Iraq and Lebanon program officer at the National Strategy Center in Washington, D.C., where she researched and wrote a country assessment for developing a rule of law program in middle schools in Iraq and worked with Lebanese educators to support their rule of law educational programs. Haider also worked for a year in her native country as a civil society specialist on Research Triangle International’s (RTI) Iraq Governance Program. In this position, she developed, managed, and implemented rapid response grants to local non-governmental organizations, and designed capacity-building and advocacy workshops for Iraqi civil society organizations. Haider previously worked for the Iraq Foundation in Washington as program manager of the National Network Project.

Haider holds a master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a master’s from the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. Her academic research and work have focused on security studies and post-conflict resolution in post-Saddam Iraq.

Publications:

• What Makes Zarqawi Tick?
  USIPeace Briefing (April 2006).
• "Civil Society Development: Learning from Ninawa," Research Triangle International (RTI) Lessons Learned, Brief No.3 (May 2005).