Adham Hamed

Peace & Conflict Analysis, Mediation & Foreign Policy

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Adham Hamed is a peace and conflict researcher, political scientist and mediator, with affiliations to the Austrian Centre for Peace and the University of Vienna. Previously he has served as a diplomat at the German Foreign Office. His current research focuses on German foreign policy in the Middle East, peace processes and multi-track peace mediation.

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  • Curriculum and Didactics in Augsburg, Germany

    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…

  • Starke Stimme der Frauen in Libyen

    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…

  • 2017 Hammamet Conference: Building Peaceful and Inclusive Societies

    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…

  • Palästinensische Aussöhnung

    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…

  • Interview with the Pacifc Standard

      „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,…

  • A Moral Imagination Workshop: Listening, Painting and Enacting

    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…