Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
December 3, 2007 – August 29, 2008
ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE
Project Focus:
Lessons and Challenges in Evaluating Peace and Conflict Resolution Intervention Programs in Conflict Areas
Civil Society | Conflict Management | Education | Ethnic Conflict | Non-Violent Conflict and Civil Disobedience | Negotiation, Peace Talks, Mediation | Political Islam | Religion, Religious Conflict
Languages: Arabic, Hebrew
Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a prominent expert on Arab-Jewish dialogue and peace work in conflict zone areas. He has worked extensively in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, and Mindanao. His project captures the general and specific lessons, dynamics, and challenges associated with conducting evaluations of peacebuilding projects in conflict areas. He draws from the hundreds of training and dialogue workshops and the many evaluation teams he has led in a host of conflict areas across the globe.
Abu-Nimer is the director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at American University. He is also the director and founder of Salam: Peacebuilding and Justice Institute and has been at American University’s School of International Service since 1997. Abu-Nimer is a recipient of the 2005 Morton Deutsch Award from the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence and a co-founder of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. He holds a Ph.D. in conflict resolution from George Mason University.
Publications:
- Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East. Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Amal Khoury, and Emily Welty (USIP Press, 2007).
- "A Shared Future: Local Capacities for Peace in Community Development." Michelle Garred (ed) with Mohammed Abu-Nimer (CA: World Vision, 2006).
- Interfaith Dialogue: A Guide For Muslims. Muhammad Shafiq and Mohammed Abu-Nimer (The International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2007).
- Modern Islamic Thought: Dynamic, Not Static. Edited with Said Abdul Aziz and Meena Sharify-Funk (Routledge Press, 2006).
- Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islamic Theory and Practice. (University Press of Florida, 2003).
- Dialogue, Conflict Resolution and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel. (SUNY Press, Spring 1999).
- "Religion, Dialogue, and Nonviolence Actions in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring 2004).
