Hamdam is a fellow of Hiroshima Peace Building Center of Japan, a fellow of Asia Society of Asia 21 Young Leaders, a member of Young Leaders Forum at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and a senior research fellow of Civil Vision International.
She also lobbies for legislation protecting children, participates in workshops and teach-ins and promotes peace building in all of her work.
"He wrote incredible papers for me," said Lisa Schirch, a professor of peace building at Eastern Mennonite.
"By the end, they've covered six important themes, some of which are tailored for the special circumstances of children who have grown up in war-torn Liberia.The themes include: literacy; numeracy; psycho-social counselling and peace building; scheme of work plans [used for designing course curriculum] physical education; and music and drama".
The Center for International Conflict Resolution contributes to conflict transformation and peace-building of deadly conflict worldwide through research, education, and practice.
This could provide the basis for eventually understanding the relative impacts on peace-building of CBR and other interventions aimed at providing community based social support services in a non-discriminatory manner in countries characterised by latent or overt low-intensity vertical conflict, and accompanied by structural and repressive political violence.
The lack of peace building, he said, is part of the failure of the Oslo peace process that began with accords signed in 1993 but has not yet produced a Palestinian state.
"In this work (peace building), the role of religion is fundamental.
Abu-Nimer provides a good description of the field of peace building.
In doing so, Sayid will push the currently widely overlooked issues of youth participation in peace building and the struggles of LGBTQ refugees into the international spotlight.
Peet created the book along with writing partner Andrea Troyer and is donating a portion of its sales to the peace building youth organization Seeds of Peace.
