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\n\t\tDr. Abdalla is KARAMAH’s Senior Fellow on Conflict Resolution and Senior Advisor on Policy Analysis and Research at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University. \u00a0In 2013-2014, he was Vice President of SALAM Institute for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C. From 2004-2013 he was Professor, Dean and Vice Rector at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica.\u00a0 Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow with the Peace Operations Policy Program, School of Public Policy, at George Mason University, Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0 He was also a Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n
Both his academic and professional careers are multi-disciplinary.\u00a0 He obtained a law degree in Egypt in 1977 where he practiced law as a prosecuting attorney from 1978 to 1987.\u00a0 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 conflict resolution and peacebuilding programs in several countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.\u00a0 He also authored, and co-authored, several research and evaluation teaching manuals including:\u00a0Doing What You Want With Your Data, A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning and Implementing Evaluation Strategies,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Qualitative Evaluation: The What and Why.<\/i><\/p>\n
As a former member of the Advisory Board, and Senior Fellow on conflict resolution to KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights, Dr. Abdallah has contributed for over a decade to the development and implementation of a successful conflict resolution training within KARAMAH’s esteemed Law and Leadership Summer Program (LLSP), and is contributing to KARAMAH’s effort to mainstream mediation in Muslim communities across the United States. He has been an active figure in promoting effective cross-cultural messages within the Islamic and Arabic-speaking communities in America through workshops, T.V. and radio presentations.\u00a0 He has also been actively involved in inter-faith dialogues in the United States.\u00a0 He pioneered the development of the first conflict resolution training manual for the Muslim communities in the United States titled\u00a0(“…Say Peace”<\/i>).\u00a0 He also founded Project LIGHT (Learning Islamic Guidance for Human Tolerance), a community peer-based anti-discrimination project funded by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ).\u00a0 In 2011, he established with Egyptian UPEACE graduates a program for community prevention of sectarian violence in Egypt (Ahl el Hetta). Dr. Abdalla teaches regularly (face-to-face and online) at American University in Washington, D.C., University for Peace, University of Addis Ababa, and Open University of Catalonia.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Our Team\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\tor\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Advisors\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Amr Abdalla, SR. FELLOW, CONFLICT RESOLUTION Dr. Abdalla is KARAMAH’s Senior Fellow on Conflict Resolution and Senior Advisor on Policy Analysis and Research at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University. \u00a0In 2013-2014, he was Vice President of SALAM Institute for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C. 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