Adham Hamed, MA

Zur Person

seit 11/2021 | Diplomat als Referent zum Schutz von Journalist:innen, Medienschaffenden und Verteidiger:innen der Meinungsfreiheit in Krisen und Konflikten, Auswärtiges Amt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

03/2019–07/2021 | Universitätsassistent & Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Arbeitsbereich für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Universität Innsbruck

10/2018–06/2020 | Coordinator UNDP-Projekt "Education for Peace in the Iraqi Higher Education System", Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, Universität Innsbruck

04/2020–11/2020 | Coordinator APPEAR-Projekt "HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation“, Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, Universität Innsbruck (PSICPCT)

12/2017–03/2020 | Co-Coordinator APPEAR-Projekt "HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation“, Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies, Universität Innsbruck (PSICPCT)

seit 03/2017 | Kollegiat des Doktoratskollegs „Dynamiken von Ungleichheit und Differenz im Zeitalter der Globalisierung“ am Forschungsschwerpunkt „Kulturelle Begegnungen – Kulturelle Konflikte“, Universität Innsbruck

seit 2015 | Dissertationsprojekt zu Turning Points in Peace Processes, Universität Innsbruck; Betreuung: Wolfgang Dietrich und Andreas Oberprantacher

04/2016–02/2019 | Universitätsassistent bei Prof. Nikita Dhawan am Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck

06/2015–03/2016 | Doktoratsstipendant (Politikwissenschaft) aus der Nachwuchsförderung der Universität Innsbruck

2011–2014 | Studium der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an der Universität Innsbruck und der United Nations mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica)

2009–2011 | Studium der Internationalen Entwicklung und Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Wien

Forschungsaufenthalte u.a. in Ägypten, Äthiopien, Israel, Palästina sowie im Vereinigten Königreich

Promotionsprojekt

Turning Points in Peace Processes. Mapping the Conditions of Change in Cycles of Violence

In contexts of protracted intrastate conflicts, in which people have often experienced loss, large-scale violence and trauma, it usually appears difficult to reconcile and end the different forms of violence that keep reoccurring on the episodes of conflicts. However, sometimes – perhaps after months, perhaps after generations – turning points are reached, which allow people to break out of cycles of violence and reestablish more harmonious human relationships beyond dualistic lines of divide. This research, which is both theoretical and empirical in nature, is primarily concerned with two dimensions of such turning points in peace processes: first with their structural circumstances that contain the conflicting parties in moments of turning points and second with their relational qualities which may point towards the underlying epicenter of conflict. Working with grounded theory and Elicitive Conflict Mapping, the aim of this study is to develop a theory of middle range about the conditions under which turning points are reached in successful peace processes, aiming at contributing to current debates on peace facilitation and conflict transformation work in the context of both inter- and intra-state conflicts. Empirical Case Studies entail the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as between the Colombian government and different guerilla groups.

Project Description

Forschungsinteressen

Arabische Protestbewegungen
Nahost-Konflikt
Elizitive Konflikttransformation
Peacebuilding
Friedensprozesse

Publikationen

Hamed, Adham; Imana Keno, Gutema; Krohn, Juliana (2022a): "Ownership and Belonging in International Academic Curriculum Development", in Obrecht, Andreas: Appear: Participative Knowledge Production Through Transnational and Transcultural Academic Cooperation, Vol. 2. Vienna, Studienverlag.
— (2022b) "Curricular Innovation in Peace and Development Studies Beyond Linear Thinking", in Obrecht, Andreas: Appear: Participative Knowledge Production Through Transnational and Transcultural Academic Cooperation, Vol. 2. Vienna, Studienverlag.
Hamed, Adham; Losert, Alba; Rabitsch, Armin (2020): Elicitive Peace and Conflict Monitoring: A Pilot Study in Iraq. Baghdad, United Nations Development Programme Iraq.
Hamed, Adham (2020): "What the Hell has gone Wrong in Egypt: An Inquiry with Elicitive Conflict Mapping", in Castro Varela, Maria do Mar; Ilker Baris: Doing Tolerance: Democracy, Citizenship and Social Protest. Leverkusen, Barbara Budrich Publishers.
Echavarría Alvarez, Josefina; Hamed, Adham; Taylor, Noah (2019): Elicitive Curriculum Development. A Manual for Scholar Practitioners Developing Courses in Peace and Conflict Studies. Innsbruck University Press.
Hamed, Adham (2016): Speaking the Unspeakable: Sounds of the Middle East Conflict. Wiesbaden, Springer.
Hamed, Adham (Ed.) (2014): Revolution as a Process: The Case of the Egyptian Uprising. Bremen, Wiener Verlag für Sozialforschung.
Hamed, Adham; Huber, Julia; Naderer, Hannes; Zepharovich, Elena (2012): "Vom arabischen Erwachen zur dauerhaften Demokratie!? Postkonsensuale Bruchstellen der ägyptischen Revolution", in Österreichisches Studienzentrum für Frieden und Konfliktlösung: Zeitenwende im arabischen Raum: Welche Antworten findet Europa?. Vienna, LIT Verlag, 24–36.

Mitgliedschaften

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft
Netzwerk für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Österreich
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (AFK), Arbeitsbereich Curriculum und Didaktik

Lehre

Sommersemester 2020 | SE " Peace and Conflict Monitoring", gemeinsam mit Armin Rabitsch, Sociology of Peace Module, Diploma Programme in Peace Studies, University of Baghdad, Iraq, Summer Term 2020. (Englisch)
Wintersemester 2019/20 | SE "Cross-Reading", Introduction Module to Peace and Conflict Studies, MA in Frieden, Entwicklung, Sicherheit und Internationaler Konflikttransformation, University of Innsbruck (Enflisch)
Sommersemester 2019 | SE Politische Theorie, Vertiefung: "Transrational Peace Philosophy and Turning Points in Peace Processes" (Englisch)
Sommersemester 2019 | SE Haramaya University, Ethiopia "Approaches to Conflict Transformation", (Englisch), gemeinsam mit Norbert Koppensteiner
Sommersemester 2018 | SE Politische Theorie, Vertiefung: "The Political Ideas of Peace and Development" (Englisch)
Sommersemester 2017 | SE "Revolutionary Processes: An Exploration of Tahrir Square and Beyond" (Englisch)
Sommersemester 2017 | Excursion to Cairo (Englisch)

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Kontakt

Mail: adham.s.hamed[at]gmail.com