KARAMAH Staff Writer
Sunday, September 1, 2002
Posted Sunday, September 15, 2002

On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at the 2002 ISNA Convention in Washington, DC, Amr Abdalla, a George Mason University professor and the head of KARAMAH’s Conflict Resolution Project, led a presentation on Islamic conflict resolution in which two KARAMAH staff members participated. Sevim Kalyoncu, KARAMAH’s Assistant Executive Director and Shama Farooq, a summer 2002 intern of KARAMAH and student at Tulane Law School, helped in the role playing the presenters used to explain the different forms of conflict resolution. Both Ms. Kalyoncu and Ms. Farooq have been working with Dr. Abdalla on KARAMAH’s Conflict Resolution Project which looks into conflicts among Muslim communities in the Washington, DC area and people’s opinions on the concept of Islamic conflict resolution. This project resulted from a grant awarded by the Harvard University Pluralism Project.

Amr Abdalla is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Program on Peacekeeping Policy at George Mason University. He works in situations throughout the world requiring conflict resolution, and together with students from the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, is developing a program for Islamic Conflict Resolution.