Abdul Aziz Said is professor and director of the American University 's Center for Global Peace. He served as advisor to the Democratic Principles Working Group of the United States Department of State's “Future of Iraq Project.” He is consultant to the members of the Iraqi Governing Council. He writes frequently to regional and international newspapers in the Arab world. He has contributed editorials to the Washington Post and was featured in the Washington Post Magazine on June 22, 2003 .

He is the senior ranking professor of international relations and the first occupant of the Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on and off campus, aimed at advancing our understanding of world peace. He 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.

He 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 in more than one hundred universities in the United States and all over the world. His past and current public service includes consulting 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. He advises and serves on the Board of Directors for various international non-governmental organizations including Search for Common Ground, Global Education Associates, the National Peace Foundation, International Youth Advocate Program, The Omega Institute, Nonviolence International, International Center for Religion and Diplomacy, and the Jones International University-University of the Web. He also serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Quarterly and Peace Review.

He has written, co-authored and edited more than seventeen books including 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 in an International Contexts, Ethnicity and U.S. Foreign Policy and articles on various aspects of world politics.

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