Signing of the exchange agreement between UWinnipeg’s Dr. Neil Besner (VP Students and International) and Dr. Amr Abdalla of UPeace – May 26, 2010
Global College presents a free, public lecture:
“Terrorism & Peaceful Transformation: what Muslims and non-Muslims can do”
Thursday, May 27 at 6:00 pm
Convocation Hall, 2nd floor Wesley Hall
Dr. Amr Abdalla of the UN mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica, with a diverse response panel, chaired by Dean Jim Christie, of: David Matas, Bilquis Khan, Alka Kumar and John Derksen.
Dr. Abdalla is Vice Rector, UN Affiliated University for Peace, Costa Rica, and a former prosecuting attorney from Egypt, with extensive expertise and experience on Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups.
He was a senior fellow with the Peace Operations Policy Programme, School of Public Policy, at George Mason University. He was also a Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences.
Both his academic and professional careers are multi-disciplinary. He obtained a law degree in Egypt in 1977 where he practiced law as a prosecuting attorney from 1978 to 1986. From 1981-1986, he worked extensively on Muslim terrorist cases, including the case of President Sadat’s assassination. He then emigrated to the U.S. where he obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.
He has been teaching graduate classes in conflict analysis and resolution, and has conducted training, research and evaluation of peacebuilding and conflict resolution programs in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America, Central Asia, South and South-East Asia. He also pioneered the development of the first conflict resolution training manual for the Muslim communities in the United States (“…Say Peace”), and founded Project LIGHT (Learning Islamic Guidance for Human Tolerance) to promote tolerance and peaceful coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims.
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