FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC –Seating and boxed lunches for 80 people

This public lecture is the first in a new event series entitled “A Conversation About Peace” designed to engage students, scholars, visiting practitioners and the community in thinking about the peace process with a more proactive, pro-peace approach.

Dr. Zomlot’s lecture, “Shifting Sands: Whither Palestinian Politics and Strategy?” is cosponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.

Dr Husam Zomlot is Roving Ambassador, Palestine and adjunct professor of public policy at Birzeit University.  He has served as a UN official and as a senior diplomat representing the Palestinian Authority  since 1996. Dr Zomlot is a former visiting scholar (2008-2010) at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and is an advisor for the Oxford Research Group.

Dr Zomlot’s work focuses on international interventions in conflict and post-conflict zones. His current research, examines ‘peacebuilding’ and ‘statebuilding’ conceptual frameworks and the prescription of economic and institutional solutions for political problems in ethnically and politically charged conflict zones. It also investigates international institutional settings in the area of managing and coordinating post-conflict interventions.

Dr Zomlot teaches/guest lectures on a wide range of topics related to international peace and security and the Middle East. These include peace studies; conflict and negotiations; conflict, narratives and the politics of identity; conflict and the international system; international economics; government and politics of the Middle East; international relations in the Middle East; and the Arab/Israeli Conflict.