London-Amman Faculty
FIE is pleased to welcome these esteemed faculty for the London - Amman summer program in Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Dr. Paul Arthur – Program Director
London, The Life Cycle of Peace and Conflict: Lessons Learned in Northern Ireland
A preeminent scholar and practitioner in international conflict resolution, Dr. Paul Arthur is a Professor of Politics and former Director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. He holds a BA and MSSC from Queen’s University Belfast and a D.Litt. from the National University of Ireland. He is the author of five books –the latest being Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland problem (2001) – and approximately seventy peer-reviewed articles. In 1997-98 he held a Senior Fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. where his research was in Track Two Diplomacy, and in 2007 he was a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University. He has acted in a consultancy capacity for the United Nations Research Institute in Social Development on political violence and the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at the House of Commons on an enquiry on “Dealing With The Past.”
He has extensive media experience in Ireland, Britain and the United States including two years as an op-ed writer for the Irish Times as well as being Ulster Television’s regular political analyst. He has contributed to the Times, New York Times, Observer, Sunday Independent and Guardian.
Dr. Zaid Eyadat – Faculty
Amman, Conflict Resolution and Management: Beyond The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Dr. Zaid Eyadat is an associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Jordan and the chairperson of Human Rights and Human Development department. Dr. Eyadat completed his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. Dr Eyadat’s teaching and research interests include conflict resolution and management, Islam and human rights, public policy evaluation, American foreign policy, international politics and comparative politics. Among his publications are “Culture and Foreign Policy: an Explanatory Model. American Foreign Policy Post 9\11”, “Psychosocial Theory and Political Violence”, “The Rationality of Political Violence: modeling AL-Qaeda Vs the United States”, and “The Calculus of Consensus: an Alternative Path to Arab Democracy”.