Event Date: 8 – 9 November 2013
Unrecognised Nations and Peoples Organisation
Laan van Meerdervoort 70
2517 AN The Hague
The Netherlands
Alternative Cultures of Diplomacy
Part of the Diplomatic Cultures Research Network (AH/J013900/1)
Agenda-setting in diplomacy I
Dr Michele Acuto is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) at University College London, Fellow of the Programme for the Future of Cities at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Center of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
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Mr Raed Ayad is currently pursuing a PhD at the School of Political, Social and International Studies at the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research is concentrating on the role of the new intelligentsia in formulating and advancing national identity, with the Palestinians as a case study. Raed is currently the Vice President of the Canadian Arab Federation and a director at the Palestine House Educational and Cultural Centre in Canada. Moreover, Raed was a parliamentary candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 2011 Ontario provincial elections.
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Mr Mohamoud Abdi Daar is a retired career diplomat. From 1968-1999 he worked for the Organization of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the present African Union (AU) and held senior positions in the organization. He served as Director of the Political Department of the OAU General Secretariat in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1978 to 1979, as Assistant Executive Secretary of the OAU Delegation to the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland (1980-1987) and as senior economist at the OAU mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium (1987 -1999). Following his retirement, he worked as a consultant (2000) at the European Union-African Caribbean and Pacific (EU-ACP) Centre for Industrial Development of Enterprises in Brussels. Born in Hargeisa, Mohamoud completed his primary education in Hargeisa and Amoud, Borama. Following his graduation from Sheikh Secondary School in 1961, he went to the USA on scholarship. He has a BA from Rutgers University and an MA from Columbia University School of International Affairs and Public Policy. Due to his long-standing service, Mohamoud was appointed in 2002 as Somaliland’s Representative to Brussels. He is author of a number of articles on management and international issues.
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Ms Francesca Dickson is a PhD candidate and President’s Research Scholar with Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre. Her research focuses on the external relations of sub-state governments, or ‘paradiplomacy’. It looks firstly to uncover the ways in which these sub -state governments develop international agency, and secondly to investigate the link between party-political control and the nature of external representations. The study draws on empirical evidence from Wales, Bavaria and Scotland and utilizes the frameworks of both international relations and comparative politics.
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Dr Sidi M. Omar is a member of the diplomatic corps of the Sahrawi Republic/Frente POLISARIO with diplomatic postings and missions in Africa, Asia, Europe and at the African Union and the United Nations. He has a Ph.D. in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies. He is also a researcher and visiting professor at the Interuniversity Institute of Social Development and Peace at Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Spain, where he researches peace, conflict and development studies, post-colonialism, cultural and discourse studies, Western Sahara, North Africa and Middle East politics. He has several publications on these topics in Arabic, English, and Spanish.
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Mr James Roslington is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research has focused on the creation of an independent Islamic republic in northern Morocco in the 1920s. His interests include the remaking of sovereignty and challenges to imperial rule between the world wars.
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