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Samuel Rizk

Samuel Rizk
Programme Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme

Ph.D., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 2012
MA in Middle East Studies, American University in Cairo, 2003
BA in Political Science, Hanover College (Indiana, USA), 1995

Biography

Samuel Rizk currently serves as Programme Advisor with the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York. Previously he served as Peace and Development Advisor with UNDP in Sudan and prior to that as Conflict Prevention Advisor with UNDP Yemen.

Living in Lebanon from 2002 to 2006, Samuel was a founding member and executive director of the Forum for Development, Culture and Dialogue - a regional NGO based in Beirut, working on issues of conflict resolution, community empowerment and interfaith relations in the Arab world. During that time he helped establish and lead the Arab Partnership for Conflict Prevention and Human Security and coordinated its work in relation to the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).

Previous experience includes work with the Middle East Council of Churches in Egypt and Lebanon on issues of justice, peace and human rights, as well as with the Ibn Khaldoun Center for Development Studies in Cairo as editor-in-chief of the center's English-language newsletter Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World. Samuel taught courses on Strategic Peacebuilding; Conflict Transformation Theory; and Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (Virginia, USA). His op-eds appeared in the Hill, the Baltimore Sun, Search for Common Ground's CGNews, the Cordoba Initiative, and his academic writing and book reviews can be found in the series of Occasional Papers at Georgetown University's Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (where he was visi



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April 19, 2012
Contemporary Muslim-Christian relations, globally as well as in the Middle East and in Egypt – the case study for this research – are influenced by a multitude of dynamic political, social, cultural and economic factors. Utilizing the Protracted Social...
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Before January 25, 2011, Egyptians had no political ambition. On Saturday, they did.The Egyptian people were united in
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May 19, 2009
Washington, DC - Now that the scare over the “swine flu” virus (H1N1) has subsided around the world,
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March 31, 2009
Washington, DC - An argument could be made that the Middle East, as the birthplace of the Abrahamic religions, is a
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March 09, 2008
Sam Rizk, conflict analyst at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, on
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February 15, 2008
Samuel Rizk, a conflict analyst at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University,
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February 12, 2008
Samuel Rizk, a conflict analyst at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University,
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April 12, 2007
[Published, Baltimore Sun, April 12, 2007] Parents and teachers know that consistent enforcement is critical. A child
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Contemporary Muslim-Christian relations, globally as well as in the Middle East and in Egypt – the case study for this research – are influenced by a multitude of dynamic political, social, cultural and economic factors. Utilizing the Protracted Social Conflict theory as an overarching
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The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) will present “A Syrian Journey: Reflections by President Alan Merten” on Thursday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Arlington Campus in the Truland Building, Room 555. Syria was one of the countries
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