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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Areas of Specialization

Comparative Politics, African Politics, Democracy building, Ethnic conflict, Conflict resolution, NGOs, Development, and Islam.

Background:

Hussein M. Adam is an associate professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross, specializing in comparative politics with a focus on the Horn of Africa. He is the founder and president of the Somali Studies International Association (SSIA) and was founding director of the Somali Unit for Research on Emergency and Rural Development (SURERD), an indigenous NGO in Mogadishu (1981-87). He is a member of the African Studies Association, the World Bank Council of African Advisors, and the African Association of Political Science.

Adam has received several awards and fellowships, including the Hewlett Mellon Award; Harvard University W. E. B. DuBois fellowship; De Witt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize; Rockefeller fellowship; and Africa Development Foundation fellowship. The author of numerous books, articles, and book chapters on Somalia, Adam holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard.

Publications:






From Tyranny to Anarchy by Hussein Adam (Paperback - Mar 20, 2008)






War Destroys, Peace Nurtures: Reciliation and Development in Somalia by Richard Ford and Hussein M. Adam (March 2003)







Removing barricades in Somalia: Options for peace and rehabilitation (Peaceworks) by Hussein Mohamed Adam (Unknown Binding - 1998)




Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the 21st Century by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford (Paperback -8/1997



Rethinking the Somali Political Experience by Hussein M. Adam (Paperback - Oct 1995)

Somalia: International versus local attemps at Peacebuilding, in Robert Mathews, ed. Durable Peace: (challenges of peacebuilding in africa) University of Toronto Press, 2003

The revolutionary development of the Somali language (Occasional paper / African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California) by Hussein Mohamed Adam (1980)

Towards a Somali institute of international affairs by Hussein Mohamed Adam (1978)

A general report on the Fanon Institute's Conference held in Trinidad and the subsequent academic tour of the United States by Hussein Mohamed Adam (1978)