Adham Hamed

Together with Wolfgang Dietrich and Norbert Koppensteiner I attended the annual Meeting of the Working Group Curriculum and Didactics of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies, hosted by the Chair for Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Augsburg. We are very much looking forward to hosting this event in Innsbruck in 2018!

Together with Clara Maier I published a newspaper article on the topic of Gender and peace building in Libya in the Tiroler Tageszeitung. In this text we focus on the courageous work of Zahra Langhi who delived the 51st Innsbruck Gender Lecture with a comment by Josefina Echavarria A., moderated by Lena Drummer. Click here, to read the article online.

From November 9th – 12th I attended this year’s  Hammamet Conference in Tunisia on „Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies“ as part of theEgyptian delegation . In my presentation „Reintegrating former Combatants: A Conflict Transformation Perspective“ in the Panel on „Reintegration and Social Cohesion“ I proposed an elicitive approach to conflict transformation that focuses on relational security and the different layers of conflict beyond the apparent episodes of violence, when addressing the complexities of current conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Nach über zehn Jahren nationaler Spaltung haben sich die beiden verfeindeten palästinensischen Fraktionen Fatah und Hamas vergangene Woche darauf geeinigt, ein bereits 2011 ausgearbeitetes Versöhnungsabkommen in Kraft zu setzen. Dieser Schritt wurde auf den Straßen von Gaza mit Jubelszenen gefeiert. Was bedeutet dies aber nun für den Nahost-Konflikt? Um das Potenzial dieser neuen Situation von womöglich historischer Bedeutung einzuordnen, ist es nötig, die verschiedenen internen und externen Faktoren dieses Übereinkommens zu analysieren. Mein ausführlicher Gastbeitrag zum nationalen Schulterschluss zwischen Hamas und Fatah wurde am 21. Oktober 2017 in der Printausgabe der Tiroler Tageszeitung gedruckt. Hier gibt es den Text zum online nachlesen.

„In Europe, History—and the Populist Politics Over Muslim Women’s Dress—Repeats Itself: It appears no Austrian party could afford to stand up against the nation’s controversial new veil ban“ Masoud Hayoun from the Pacific Standard interviewed me about the new Austrian Law, banning face-veils in Austrian public; „The entire debate is held over Muslim women, rather than in a sincere dialogue with them. Therefore, this law has to be seen in the context of an increase of populist policy making in the framework of the forthcoming elections,“ says Adham Hamed, a University of Innsbruck political theory Researcher.“ Follow this link to read the full artile.

At the 2017 International Institute for Peace Education I had the wonderful opportunity to facilitate a Workshop on the topic of John Paul Lederach’s Moral Imagination, a book that is very dear to my heart and central to my reserach, along with my dear colleague Alejandra Barrera, who taught me quite a lot about the art of Haiku writing.

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