BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:162@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20140926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20140926T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T082301Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/radwan-ziadeh-syria/ SUMMARY:Dr. Radwan Ziadeh on "Syria: From Struggle for Freedom to Humanitar ian Crisis" DESCRIPTION:\nMissed this program or want to hear it again?\nListen to the podcast on Alaska Public Media here.\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nHe is the fo under and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syri a and co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington\, D.C. He is the managing editor of t he Transitional Justice in the Arab World Project. He is also a member of the Syrian National Preparatory committee for Transitional Justice.\n\nZia deh was a Visiting Scholar at Lehigh University\, and Fellow at the Instit ute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in Washington D.C.\n\nSince the Syrian uprising started in March 15\, 2011 he was involved in documen ting the ongoing human rights violations in Syria and testified at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva twice. He was also involved in the Syrian p olitical opposition. He was elected in October 2011 as director of the For eign Relations Office of the Syrian National Council until he resigned fro m the position in November 2012.\n\nHe was a Visiting Scholar for the Duba i Initiative at Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University\, Visit ing Scholar at the Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) in the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University\, Prins Gl obal Fellow at Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University\, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Contemporary Arab Stu dies (CCAS) at Georgetown University.\n\nBefore that he was a Reagan–Fas cell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington D\ ,C and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Col umbia University in New York City. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Chatha m House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London and a vis iting scholar at Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University (2008 –2009). In 2007–2008 he was a Senior Fellow at United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington\, D.C.\nZiadeh was also editor-in-chief of Tyarat magazine in 2001–2002 and secretary of the Syrian Organization fo r Transparency. He was a researcher with the UNDP’s "Syria 2025" project and was named best political scientist researcher in the Arab world by Jo rdan’s Abdulhameed Shoman Foundation in 2004. In 2009 he was awarded the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Academic Freedom award in Boston\; and in 2010 he accepted the Democracy Courage Tributes award on behalf of the human rights movement in Syria\, given by the World Movement for Demo cracy in Jakarta\, Indonesia.\nZiadeh was one of the major players in the “Damascus Spring\,” a period of intense debate about politics\, social issues\, and calls for reform in Syria after the death of President Hafez al-Asad in 2000.\nHe is on the board of directors for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) in Washington\, D.C.\, Senior adviser for the Institute of Islamic Strategic and Socio Political Affairs in Lond on (IISA)\, and a member of the Advisory Group for the Institute for Democ racy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm\, Sweden. In addition\, he is a member of the Advisory Board for the Islamic World Initiative at U SIP for “Reform and Security in the Muslim World” program\, a member o f the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)\, the American Political Scie nce Association (APSA)\, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London\, the International Political Science Association (IPSA) \, and the International Studies Association (ISA).\n\nHis most recent boo k is Power and Policy in Syria: Intelligence Services\, Foreign Relations and Democracy in the Modern Middle East (I.B.Tauris \,2011). He has writte n ten books: The Clash of Values Between Islam and the West\, with Kevin J ames O’Toole (2010)\, Political Islam in Syria (2008)\, Decision Making and Foreign Policy in Syria (2007)\, The Challenges of Reform in The Arab World: Islam\, Identity\, Modernity and Globalization (2006)\, The Intelle ctual Confronts Power: Dialogues of Syrian Civil Society (2005)\, and The Near Peace: The Syrian–Israeli Negotiations (2005—the first book writt en by a Syrian on the subject)\, The Ideology of Renaissance in Contempora ry Arab Discourse (2004)\, The Question of Renewal in Contemporary Islamic Discourse (2004)\, Modernism and Post-Modernism in Western Philosophy (20 03)\, and Human Rights in the Arab World (2000).\n\nHe has edited five boo ks: The Democratic Transition between Spain and Syria\, with George Irani (2009)\, The Struggle for Reform in Syria (2006)\, Reform in Syria: Betwee n Domestic and International Politics (2004)\, Towards Civil Society in Sy ria (2004)\, and Islam and Political Thought: Democracy and The West (2000 ).\n\nZiadeh has published studies\, research projects\, and policy papers for many international institutions including United States Institute of Peace (USIP)\, Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm\, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)\, The Nethe rlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)\, Freedom House and Globa l Integrity both in Washington D.C\, The Global Leadership Project at the Clinton Global Initiative. He has published articles in magazines in Arabi c\, English\, Spanish and French.\n\nHe has lectured at Harvard University \, Columbia University\, Georgetown University\, Stanford University\, Rut gers University\, Cornell University\, George Washington University\, New York University\, UCLA\, UC–Davis\, Roger Williams University\, Kennesaw State University\, Tufts University\, Oxford University\, St. Andrews Uni versity\, National Academy of the Sciences\, King’s College–University of London\, Edinburgh University\, University of Colorado\, Savannah Coun cil on World Affairs\, University of Ljubljana-Slovenia\, Jagiellonian Uni versity in Poland\, Lund University –Sweden\, Gutenberg University-Mainz -Germany\, University of Amsterdam\, LUISS University in Italy \, Pontific al Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro\, Universitat Autònoma de Barcel ona (UAB)-Barcelona\, National University-Rosario-Argentina\, Internationa l Christian University in Tokyo\, Cairo University\, American University o f Beirut\, Al-Baat University in Amman\, University of Jordan\, and Damasc us University.\n\nHe is a frequent political commentator on several U.S.\, European\, and Middle Eastern media outlets such as Al-Jazeera\, Al-Arabi ya\, B.B.C. and Al-Hurra. He also writes a bi-monthly op-ed for the leadin g Arab daily\, Al-Hayat.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2014/06/RedwanZiadeh.jpg CATEGORIES:International Program Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:AKDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR