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Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the IPRD, and a bestselling author and political analyst specializing in security, violent conflict and global crisis. He is the author of The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (Duckworth, 2006), the only major critical examination of the 7/7 terrorist attacks, and The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (Interlink, 2005), endorsed by former senior US military and intelligence officials such as CIA veteran Robert Steele (founder of the US Army Marine Corps Intelligence Center) and Lt. Col. (ret.) Robert Bowman (former head of the Star Wars missile defence programmes under Presidents Ford and Carter). Ahmed has written for the Independent on Sunday and Muslim News, and appeared as an expert commentator for BBC News 24, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC World Today, BBC Asian Network, Channel 4, Sky News, C-SPAN, CNN, FOX News, Bloomberg, PBS Foreign Exchange, Al-Jazeera English, Press TV, Islam Channel and hundreds of other radio and TV shows in the USA, UK, and Europe. He is also cited and reviewed in the Sunday Times, Times Higher Educational Supplement, The Independent, The Observer, Big Issue Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Observer, among others. Ahmed has taught courses in contemporary history and international relations theory at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, from where he obtained his Doctorate, and has lectured at Brunel University’s Politics & History Unit on empire and globalization at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His Doctoral thesis investigated the radicalisation processes and dynamics of violent conflict, particularly mass violence and genocide, in the context of hierarchical (imperial) social systems in the modern world. Ahmed has also published extensively on international terrorism, al-Qaeda and the 'War on Terror'. His published research is widely cited in the peer-reviewed literature, and used in several US and UK university courses, including the Harvard University School of Public Health's Department of Global Health and Population and the Kings College London War Studies Department. His work is also listed in major bibliographies of expert literature including the US Army Air University's 'Causes of War' collection (2007); the UK Ministry of Defence's Joint Services Command & Staff College Research Guide on Counter-Terrorism and the GWOT (2008); and the International Labour Organization's 'World Commission on the Social Dimension on Globalization' social science bibliography on impacts of globalisation (2003). As well as testifying in US Congress on Western state collaboration with Islamist extremist networks after the Cold War in summer 2005, Ahmed’s research on international terrorism was used by the 9/11 Commission. He has also consulted for the legal team representing the 7/7 Survivors Group, and for various media organisations on issues related to terrorism and foreign policy, such as the BBC. He is currently advising the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on engagement with Muslim communities. Other books by Ahmed include, The War on Freedom: How & Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 (Progressive Press, 2002), which was a finalist for the Naples Prize 2003 – Italy’s most prestigious literary award – and won praise from Gore Vidal as "the best and most balanced analysis of 9/11”; and Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy & the Struggle for Iraq (New Society, 2003), selected by Chatham House's Middle East Programme as a resource on the Iraq War 2003. Ahmed is a former Senior Researcher at the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a London-based NGO in Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council, and is currently on the Executive Committee of the British Muslim Human Rights Centre at London Metropolitan University’s Human Rights & Social Justice Institute. He is also Strategy Director for Creative Education at Arts Versa, a consultancy working with a variety of government agencies and civil society organisations to build cultural bridges between faith and ethnic communities to promote shared values and community cohesion, with a focus on Muslim diasporas and the creation of an inclusive progressive vision for British Islam. He blogs occasionally at The Cutting Edge. |
