Abdul Aziz Said, PhD

Abdul Aziz Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a wide range of activities, both on and off campus, aimed at advancing understanding of world peace. Professor Said founded and serves as director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division, in the School of International Service, which offers a Master of Arts degree and four dual or joint degree options, as well as concentrations at the Doctoral and Undergraduate levels. Professor Said is also responsible for developing several educational, research, and outreach programs such as the Center for Cooperative Global Development, Project PEN (Providing for Educational Needs), the Washington Semester in International Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Summer Institute for Teachers: Education for Global Citizenship, the Center for Mediterranean Studies, and the Community for Social Change and Political Participation in the Middle East and Africa.

Professor Said is a frequent lecturer and participant in national and international peace conferences and dialogues and is deeply involved with a number of professional associations and Service Academies. He has lectured at more than one hundred universities in the United States and all over the world. His past and current public service includes consulting with the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the United Nations and the White House Committee on the Islamic World. He has served as the President of the regional chapter for the International Studies Association and as moderator for the Ecumenical Council of Washington.

Professor Said has written, co-authored and edited more than seventeen books including Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, not Static; Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice; Cultural Diversity and Islam; Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective; Human Rights and World Order; Ethnicity in an International Context; The New Sovereigns: Multinational Corporations as World Powers; Theory of International Relations: The Crisis of Relevance; Ethnicity and U.S. Foreign Policy as well as a number of articles on various aspects of world politics.

His deep commitment to nonviolence, human rights, political pluralism, cultural diversity, and ecological balance has furthered the expansion of Peace and Conflict Resolution as a field of study throughout the world.

Editorial and Advisory Board Participation

• Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM)
• Center for Peace Building International
• Center for the Study of the Presidency: National Committee to Unite a Divided America
• Common Ground
• Council on Foreign Relations: Power-Sharing and Minority Rights in Iraq
• Council on US-Syrian Relations
• Creative Peace Building Initiatives
• Fulbright Senior Specialist Program
• Global Alliance for Transnational Education (GATE)
• Global Education Associates
• Human Rights Quarterly
• Human Rights International
• International Association of University Presidents: U.N. Commission on Arms Control
• International Center for Religion and Diplomacy
• International Journal of Nonviolence
• International Youth Advocate Foundation
• International Youth Advocate Program
• Jones International University
• Joint Program on Conflict Resolution (Institute for Victims of Trauma)
• Journal of Peacebuilding and Development

Editorial and Advisory Board Participation Continued

• Kosmos Journal
• National Youth Advocate Program
• Nonviolence International
• Peace Review
• Peacebuilding & Development Institute
• Search for Common Ground
• Spirituality and Reality
• The National Peace Foundation
• The Omega Institute
• Washington National Cathedral Interfaith Curriculum Advisory Council
• Youth Advocate Program International

Awards

• Outstanding Contribution to Academic Development Award
• The University Faculty Award, Outstanding Service to the American University
• Outstanding Faculty Award Mortar Board
• Status of Lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute, Department of State
• Grantee, The Rockefeller Foundation
• Grantee, The United States Institutes of Peace
• Grantee, National Endowment for Democracy
• Grantee, United States Agency for International Development
• Phi Epsilon Pi National Jewish Fraternity, Living Legend Award
• Abdul Aziz Said Phi Epsilon Pi Scholarship (award is named after Professor Said)
• Multicultural Award, American University Office of Multicultural Affairs