Sidi Omar - Cátedra UNESCO de Filosofía para la Paz

Dr SIDI M. OMAR
A. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since December 2010: Member of the Interuniversity Institute of Social Development
and Peace (IUDESP), Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
Since October 2009: Ambassador of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR) to Ethiopia and
Permanent Representative to the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
June 2007 to March 2008: Member of the negotiating delegation of the Frente
POLISARIO in the UN-supervised negotiations with Morocco on the future of Western
Sahara.
Since October 2003: Visiting researcher of the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for
Peace, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
Since September 1996: Member of the Diplomatic Service of the Sahrawi Republic
(SADR) and the Frente POLISARIO with diplomatic postings and missions in Africa
Asia, Europe and at the United Nations.
From September 1991 to May 1996: Member of the Department of Political Affairs
and Information of the Sahrawi Commission for the Referendum in charge of coordination with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
B. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
May 2006: European Doctorate (designation: cum laude with unanimity) from
Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, with a dissertation entitled: “Los Estudios Postcoloniales: Hacia un Nuevo Proyecto para la Crítica y Transformación Cultural”
(Post-Colonial Studies: Towards a New Project for Cultural Critique and
Transformation).
The dissertation was awarded the PhD Extraordinary Award (Premio Extraordinario de
Doctorado) by Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain, for the academic year 2006-2007.
December 2003: Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in “Peace, Conflict and Democracy”
from Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
April 2001: International Master in “Peace and Development Studies” from the MA
Programme of Peace and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
September 1993: B.A. in “Criticism and Dramatic Literature” from the Higher Institute
of Dramatic Arts, Damascus, Syria.
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C. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
6 February-13 April 2012: Professor of an on-site/distance learning post-graduate
course on “Mediación, Diversidad Cultural y Convivencia”, at Master Universitario en
Comunicación Intercultural y de Enseñanza de Lenguas (CIEL), Universitat Jaume I,
Castellón, Spain.
13-17 February 2012: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Methodology and
Techniques of Research II”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
6-11 February 2012: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Methodology and
Techniques of Research I”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and Development
Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
5 January-16 February 2012: Professor of a post-graduate distance-learning course on
“Philosophy of Peace”, at the Conflictology Programme, Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya, Spain.
26 September-21 October 2011: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Introducción
a las Estudios para la Paz y la Cultura”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
14-18 February 2011: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Methodology and
Techniques of Research II”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
7-11 February 2011: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Methodology and
Techniques of Research I”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and Development
Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
13 January-10 February 2011: Professor of a post-graduate distance-learning course
on “Philosophy of Peace”, at the Conflictology Programme, Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya, Spain.
15 November 2010-21 February 2011: Professor of a on-site/distance learning postgraduate course on “Mediación, Diversidad Cultural y Convivencia”, at Master
Universitario en Comunicación Intercultural y de Enseñanza de Lenguas (CIEL),
Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
27 September-22 October 2010: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Introducción
a las Estudios para la Paz y la Cultura”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
15-19 February 2010: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Methodology and
Techniques of Research II”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
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08-12 February 2010: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Methodology and
Techniques of Research I”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and Development
Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
26 October-13 November 2009: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Peace and
Inter-cultural Dialogue: a Post-colonial Approach”, at the International MA in Peace,
Conflict and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
17 November - 12 December 2008: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Peace and
Inter-cultural Dialogue: a Post-colonial Approach”, at the International MA in Peace,
Conflict and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
19 November - 14 December 2007: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Peace and
Inter-cultural Dialogue”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and Development
Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
20 November - 15 December 2006: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Peace and
Inter-cultural Dialogue”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and Development
Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
11-19 September 2006: Professor of a post-graduate course on “Introdução aos
Estudos para a Paz e Resolução de Conflictos” (Introduction to peace studies and
conflict resolution), Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil.
28 March- 12 April 2006: Co-professor of a post-graduate course on “Introduction to
Peace and Development Studies”, at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
D. SOME CONFERENCES OF ACADEMIC CHARACTER
11 May 2012: Speaker at the roundtable “¿La crisis humanitarias tienen solución?”,
organised by Intermón-Oxfam Castellón, Castellón, Spain, with a paper entitled “La
geopolítica de las respuestas internacionales a las crises alimentarias: ejemplos del
Cuerno de África y la región del Sahel”.
15 February 2012: Guest speaker of the conference ‘“Arab Spring”: Paradoxes of
Foreign Intervention”’ delivered at the International MA in Peace, Conflict and
Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
24 October 2011: Speaker at the Round Table “Pobreza y Desarrollo: Cooperación
Global para un Desarrollo Sostenible Local” organised by La Federación de Entidades
por el Codesarrollo y la Cooperación Internacional, FEDACOD, Valencia, Spain, with a
paper entitled “Pobreza, Desarrollo y Revolución en el Magreb: Las dimensiones socioeconómicas de la revuelta popular en Túnez”.
3-15 October 2010: Speaker at the II Global Nonkilling Leadership Academy, Centre
for Global Nonkilling, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, with a paper entitled “Diplomacy,
Peace and War: Some Reflections”.
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26-29 May 2010: Speaker at “IV Jornadas Universidades Públicas Madrileñas Sobre el
Sahara Occidental”, with a paper titled “La posición de la RASD con respecto a la
explotación de los recursos naturales del Sahara Occidental”, Círculo de Bellas Artes,
Madrid, Spain.
24-25 February 2010: Speaker at the First International Congress of Philosophy for
Peace, organised by UNESCO Chair for Philosophy for Peace, Universitat Jaume I,
Castellón, Spain, with a paper entitled “Interculturalidad y cultura de paz”.
23-24 November 2009: Speaker and rapporteur at the International University Forum:
“Poverty Eradication: a Challenge for Universities Worldwide”, organised by HelsinkiEspaña, New York, USA, with a co-authored paper titled “Universal Protection of
Human Rights: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”.
16 November 2009: Speaker at the 1st International Congress on Development
Cooperation organised by Oficina de Cooperación al Desarrollo y Solidaridad,
Universitat Jaume, I, Castellón, Spain, with a paper titled “El desarrollo desde una
perspectiva post-colonial: unos puntos de partida”.
10 August 2009: Speaker at the conflict resolution course organised by the NGO, Talk
Together, at St Edward’s School, Oxford, UK, with a paper entitled “Mapping of the
Conflict in Western Sahara”.
4-5 December 2008: Speaker at the “Conference on Multilateralism and International
Law with Western Sahara as Caste Study” organised by the South African Department
of Foreign Affairs and the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, with a paper
entitled “The Legal Claim of the Sahrawi People to Self-determination and
Decolonisation”.
17-19 January 2008: Speaker at the talks organised by the think-tank Liberalt
Laboratorium, Oslo, Norway, with a paper entitled “Clash of civilisation vs. Crosscultural dialogue”.
2 May 2007: Speaker at “The III Western Sahara Study Day: War, Diplomacy and New
Forms of Resistance” organised by the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and
Latin American Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
15-16 February 2007: Speaker at the conference “Parallel Lines, Parallel Lives?
Comparative Approaches and Dialogues in Postcolonial Studies, with a Specific Focus
on Relations between Africa and the Americas” organised by the Institute of Colonial
and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, with a paper entitled
“Fanon in Algeria: A Case of Inter-post-colonial Encounter?”
5 February 2007: Speaker at the conference organised by the United World College of
the Adriatic, Trieste, Italy, with a paper entitled “Western Sahara Conflict: Past,
Present & Perspectives”.
27-28 October 2006: Speaker at the international Conference on “the Question of
Western Sahara and International Law”, organised by the Institute of Social Sciences,
The Hague, The Netherlands.
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E. PUBLICATIONS
Books:
OMAR, SIDI M. (2008): Los Estudios Post-Coloniales: una Introducción Crítica,
Castellón de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I. ISBN: 978-84-8021-639-5.
OMAR, SIDI M. et al (2008): El Papel de la Sociedad Civil en La Construcción de la Paz
en el Sáhara Occidental, Barcelona: Icaria-Editorial. ISBN: 978-84-9888-011-3.
Chapters in Books:
OMAR, SIDI M. (2012): “National Identity Formation in Transnational Spaces: The Case
of the Sahrawis of Western Sahara” in ANGELA PILCH ORTEGA and BARBARA
SCHRÖTTNER (eds.) Transnational Spaces and Regional Localization: Social Networks,
Border Regions and Local-Global Relations, Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 145-153. ISBN:
978-3-9309-2521-7.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2011): “Learning and Multiculturalism: Spanish Public Education” in
BARBARA SCHRÖTTNER and CHRISTIAN HOFER (eds.) Looking at Learning: Higher
Education, Language, Place / Blicke auf das Lernen: Hochschule, Sprache, Ort,
Münester: Waxmann Verlag GmH, 275-287. ISBN: 978-3-8309-2430-2.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2010): “La Interculturalidad y la Paz” in COMINS MINGOL, IRENE and
SONIA PARÍS ALBERT (eds.) Investigación para la Paz: Estudios Filosóficos, Barcelona:
Icaria-Editorial, 171-183. ISBN: 978-84-9888-276-6.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2010): “The Legal Claim of the Sahrawi People to Self-determination
and Decolonisation” in NEVILLE BOTHA, MICHÈLE OLIVIER and DELAREY VAN TONDER
(eds.) Multilateralism and International Law with Western Sahara as a Caste Study,
Pretoria: Verloren van Themaat Centre-University of Pretoria, 56-69. ISBN: 978-186888-604-3.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2010): “Peace Education: a Tool for Reconstructing Human
Competences to make Peace(s)”, in BARBARA SCHRÖTTNER and CHRISTIAN HOFER
(eds.) Competences – Interdisciplinary Frameworks (Kompetenzen – Interdisziplinäre
Rahmen ), Graz: Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft, 229-239. IBSN: 978-3-7011-0178-8.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2009): “Rethinking Identity from a Post-Colonial Perspective” in
BARBARA SCHRÖTTNER and CHRISTIAN HOFER (eds.) Education, Globalization, Identity
(Bildung, Identität, Globalisierung), Graz: Leykam Buchverlagsgesellschaft, 89-99.
ISBN: 978-3-7011-0136-8.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2007), “The Position of the Frente POLISARIO” in KARIN ARTS and
PEDRO PINTO LEITE (eds.) International Law and the Question of Western Sahara,
Oporto: Edições Afrontamento, 37-41. ISBN: 978-989-20-0820-2.
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Articles:
OMAR, SIDI M. (2012): “Rethinking Development from a Postcolonial Perspective”,
Journal of Conflictology, Vol. 3. 1, 42-49, ISSN 2013-8857.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2012): “Humanism Reconsidered: Post-colonial Humanistic Proposals”,
RECERCA (revista de pensament i anàlisi), 12. 2012, 143-161, ISSN: 1130-6149.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2010): “El papel de la sociedad civil en la promoción de la cultura de
paz: el caso del Sáhara Occidental”, Tiempos de Paz, 72-77, Invierno 2010 Nº 99. ISSN:
0212-8926.
OMAR, SIDI M., FATUMA AHMED (2010): “Universal Protection of Human Rights: A
Cross-Cultural Perspective”, the Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship
in Africa, Vol. 2. No.1. 2010, 311:320. ISSN: 1998-1279.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2009): “Mapping of the Conflict in Western Sahara”, Strategic Studies
Group (El Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos), http://www.gees.org/articulo/6705/, 10
September 2009.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2009): “Fanon in Algeria: A Case of Horizontal (Post)-colonial
Encounter?”, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 7:3, 264- 278. ISSN: 1479-4012.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2008): “The right to Self-determination and the Indigenous People of
Western Sahara”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 21:1, 41-57. ISSN: 09557571.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2008): “Clash of Civilisations vs. Cross-cultural Dialogue”, Liberalt
Laboratorium, Oslo, http://www.liblab.no.
OMAR, SIDI M. (2005): “Identidad nacional saharaui: puntos de partida”, Tribuna de
Salamanca, nº 23, 2005, 14.
F. RESEARCH INTERESTS
Peace, conflict and development studies, post-colonial and cultural studies, identity,
discourse analysis, North African and Middle Eastern politics.
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