Abdul Aziz Said, PhD

Mohammed Said Farsi Islamic Peace Chair and Director, International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, School of International Service, American University

Dr. Aziz Said holds the Mohammed Said Farsi Islamic Peace Chair and is the Director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program at the School of International Service, American University. He also serves as Director of the Center for Global Peace. Dr. Said was a member of the White House Commission on the Islamic World, and has served as a consultant to the United Nations and the U.S. Department of State, and has played an active role in Arab-Israeli dialogues. His publications in the field of international relations have covered a wide range of topics, including human rights, ethnicity, multinational corporations, American foreign policy, peace and conflict resolution, and Islamic-Western relations. His work, Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective, is now in its fourth edition.