From April 29th until May 5th, 2017, I will participate at the regional Forum on Youth Participation and Civic Engagement in Alexandra, Egypt. The Forum will be organized by the Swedish Institute Alexandria and the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute and aims at discussing forms of enhancing political participation in pluralistic societies. I am very much looking forward to returning to this beautiful city.
Adham Hamed
Peace & Conflict Analysis, Mediation & Foreign Policy
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For the second Volume of the Many Peaces Magazine I interviewed Sophie Friedel about her book The Art of Living Sideways. The article is now available in the new online version of the magazine.

(c) Sophie Friedel, Paul Lauer, Many Peaces Magazine Sophie Friedel is an inspiring scholar of Peace and Conflict Studies. Recently she finished her first book, The Art of Living Sideways, in which she elaborates on the relation between skateboarding and transrational peaces. We talked to her about this unique piece of scholarship that outlines a concrete practice of elicitive conflict transformation. A Conversation with Sophie Friedel about the Art of Living Sideways. Follow this link to read the article online.
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Nach den schweren Palmsonntagsanschlägen auf koptische Christen in Ägypten habe ich mich in einem kurzen Gastkommentar in der Tiroler Tageszeitung (Printausgabe 12. April 2017, Seite 2) mit den Implikationen des vom ägyptischen Regime verhängten Ausnahmezustands befasst. (mehr …)
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On Saturday, March 11th, I was invited to talk about the Egyptian movie „Clash“ and the Egyptian Revolution at the Human Visions Film Festival in Dornbirn. Thanks to the team of Spielboden for the great organization. (mehr …)
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On January 24th 2017 I was invited to comment on the 48th Innsbruck Gender Lecture “Thinking against humanity” by Ass. Prof. Ayça Çubukçu from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Follow this link to listen to the lecture as a radio podcast on Radio Freirad. My comment starts at 49:30 and the inspiring general discussion with Nikita Dhawan, Andreas Oberprantacher and others starts at 01:00:00. -

(c) Presidencia Colombia / Tiroler Tageszeitung Am Samstag, den 10.10.2016 wurde in Oslo der Friedensnobelpreis an den kolumbianischen Präsidenten Juan Manuel Santos verliehen. Hierzu habe ich gemeinsam mit Josefina Echavarría Alvarez einen Gastbeitrag für die Tiroler Tageszeitung geschrieben, der am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2016 erschienen ist. Die online Version des Artikels gibt es hier zum nachlesen.