Qamar-ul Huda

Qamar-ul Huda is the Michael E. Paul Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the United States Naval Academy. Previously, he served as an associate adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Government. Dr. Huda co-founded and was the Vice President of the Center for Global Policy (CGP), a nonpartisan think-tank that focuses on U.S. security and foreign policies in the Middle East, South Aisa, Central Asia and East Asia region. Dr. Huda was a Senior Policy Advisor for U.S. Department of State Secretary's Office for Religion and Global Affairs (S/RGA) where he focused on civil society, religious communities, and diplomacy with non-government organizations. The U.S. State Department recruited Dr. Huda to be a seconded as the first Director of the Department of Dialogue and Collaboration to Hedayah: The International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. For ten years he worked at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a Congressional funded institute to reduce and prevent global conflict, in the Department of Religion & Peacemaking as a senior expert, researcher, and resident scholar of religion and global politics focused on conflict resolution, peacebuilding research, religious peacebuilding, and field training to civil society members. He supervised and managed the development of the field of conflict resolution and mediation studies in public schools in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and various parts of the Middle East. Dr. Huda served as a director of the countering violent extremism project at USIP, where he designed, developed and implemented numerous online training courses for USIP's Academy of Conflict Analysis and Conflict Transformation. He has written on comparative politics, intellectual history, ethics, comparative ethics, the language of violence, conflict resolution and non-violence in contemporary Islam. His earlier book, "Crescent and Dove: Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam," provides a critical analysis of models of nonviolent strategies, peace building efforts, conflict resolution methods in Muslim communities.