Neamat Nojumi
Neamat Nojumi is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He is the author of The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region (Palgrave, 2002) as well as a number of research papers on the contemporary politics of Central and Southwest Asia. Nojumi has worked as a consultant on Afghanistan with Tufts University and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) several times. He served both in military and political fronts in the Afghan resistance known as Mujahideen in 1980s and he became a peace activist in 1990s.
Nojumi received a B.A. in Politics and Government from University of Hartford and a M.A.L.D. (Master of Art in Law and Diplomacy) with a focus on International Security and International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Nojumi has also worked as a fellow at the Harvard Law School.