Abdul Aziz Said is the senior ranking professor and the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University. He is a founder and director of the Center for Global Peace, and the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program. He is responsible for developing the Center for Cooperative Global Development, Project PEN (Providing for Educational Needs), the Washington Semester in International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, the Summer Institute for Teachers: Education for Global Citizenship, the Center for Mediterranean Studies, and the Community for Social Change and Political Participation in the Middle East and Africa. He is a frequent lecturer and participant in national and international peace conferences and dialogues and is deeply involved with a number of professional associations. His services include consulting the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the United Nations and the White House Committee on the Islamic World. He advises and serves on the board of directors for various international non-governmental organizations including: Search for Common Ground, Global Education Associates, the National Peace Foundation, Jones International University, International Center for Religion and Diplomacy and the International Youth Advocate Program. He has written, co-authored, and edited sixteen books, including Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice, Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective 4th Edition, Human Rights and World Order, Ethnicity in an International Context, The New Sovereigns: Multinational Corporations as World Powers, Theory of International Relations: The Crisis of Relevance, Ethnicity in an International Contexts, Ethnicity and U.S. Foreign Policy . He is also on the editorial boards for Human Rights Quarterly, International Journal of Nonviolence, Peace Review and Spirituality and Reality. His deep commitment to nonviolence, human rights, political pluralism, cultural diversity, and ecological balance has furthered the expansion of Peace and Conflict Resolution as a field of study throughout the world.