Omar Sadr

Omar Sadr is a political scientist with over a decade of experience in academia and think tanks. He is also the founding editor and host of Negotiating Ideas, an online magazine and podcast on democracy and pluralism. He has held research positions at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, the University of Pittsburgh, and Princeton University. He has also taught political science at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF).

His primary research interests include the political theory of pluralism, governance, human rights, civil resistance, and political Islam. Dr. Sadr has made significant contributions to his field. His book, Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan, which won a 2022 book prize for Best Book in Social Science from the Central Eurasian Studies Society, examines the challenges to peaceful coexistence in a pluralistic society and develops a political theory of governance of diversity.