Adham Hamed

Adham Hamed is a  peace and conflict researcher, university lecturer and diplomat. He is currently on leave from his position as Head of Reserach at the Austrian Centre for Peace. Also he is a Lecturer for International Relations at the University of Vienna’s Political Science Department. Previously he has served at the German Foreign Office in Berlin, where he works as Desk Officer for the Protection of Journalists, Media Makers and Free Speech Defenders in Crises and Conflicts. In this capacity he has been responsible for developing the  Hannah-Arendt-Initiative, the Federal Republic of Germany’s new national programme for the protection of journalists. Adham has been trained as a multi-track peace mediator by inmedio Berlin and he is a member of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences.

He is author of ‚the monographs Elicitive Curricular Development: A Manual for Scholar-Practitioners Developing Courses in International Peace Studies‘ (2019, together with Josefina Echavarría Alvarez and Noah Taylor,  ‘Speaking the Unspeakable: Sounds of the Middle East Conflict’ (2016), editor of ‚Revolution as a Process: The Case of the Egyptian Uprising‘ and founder of the Many Peaces Magazine.He has studied at the University of Vienna, the United Nations mandated University for Peace and the University of Innsbruck.

Contact: adham.s.hamed@gmail.com