Professional Workshops
Cognitive Bias and Cultural Humility: Introduction to Theory and Practice
This workshop reviews the principles behind cultural humility as codes of professional ethics, organizational policy and organization culture. The workshop provides an overview of scholarly debates around the transition from notions of cultural expertise to cultural humility for service providers. Grounded in anti-oppression frameworks of social and public service, the workshop helps derive interpersonal and organizational practices and policies that help turn theory to practice.
Impact of Anti-Immigrant Hate: A Trauma-Informed Perspective for Service Providers
This workshop explores community-specific repercussions of hate for immigrant, displaced and war-impacted communities in host countries. Community-specific repercussions of hate and bias are based on circumstances and structural conditions of specific communities. The workshop relies on case studies, data and scholarly sources.
Interrupting Hate: Trauma-Informed Principles and Measures
What does interrupting hate look like from a trauma-informed perspective? This workshop explores intervention methods to support individuals through interpersonal as well as programmatic measures. the three main components of the workshop are bystander intervention methods, post-incident support as well as preventative frameworks.
Resilience and Preparedness: Case Studies of Community-Based Efforts to Confront Collective Threats
How can communities rely on themselves and self-organize to leverage local capital in confronting communal threats? The workshop is based on exploration of the communal impact of hate and identity-based targeting. Recommendations and best-practices are based on comparative studies that look at community-based efforts to prepare, confront and recover from collective shocks.
Principles and Methods of Data Justice and Data Equity
How do systems of data and knowledge reinforce or challenge policy gaps and legislative deficiencies? This workshop looks into research methods that can bridge existing gaps in services, mainstreaming knowledge and research tools, and creating more collaborative, inclusive and reliable systems of knowledge production?
Teaching Portfolio
Contemporary Challenges to Global Security (graduate & undergraduate)
This course examines the challenges posed by the rise of populism, domestic and foreign terrorism, radicalization, global warning and systemic inequities in the global state system. The focus is specifically on processes and issues affecting global security in the post-cold war era from 1990 onwards and the role of global superpowers and the United Nations in addressing contemporary challenges.
State-Society Relations in the 21-st Century
This course examines key issues in state-society relations from a regional perspective. Relying on comparative approaches, the course explores key concepts and issues such as state formation and state building, demographic shifts, majority-minority constructs, political economy and economic development, system stability and authoritarianism, citizenship, religion-state relations and more.
Public Administration from a Comparative Perspective
This course studies public administration from a comparative perspective. The primary focus is to explore the institutional machinations of state bureaucracies, interactions of state bureaucracies with society, the development of public service, personnel recruitment and administration (public employees, civil servants, publicly elected officials), and decision making. The comparative approach includes cross-country and cross-policy historical analyses.
Peace and Conflict Studies: An Introduction
This course serves as the introduction to the broad and diverse field of peace and conflict studies. Rooted in international relations and state-society relations, the course addresses the fundamental question: what produces war and how do armed conflicts abate? Based on empirical and theoretical
scholarship the course looks into local conditions and dynamics of war as well as global responses and modes of intervention.
State Formation and Social Conflict in Syria
This course explores the modern history, politics and society in Syria in light of the changing relationship between the state and society through domestic and International political dynamics, economic transformations, socio-political movements and ideologies. The course concludes with analysis of the Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011 and to understand the resilience of the Assad dictatorship.
Principles and Methods of Data Justice and Data Equity
How do systems of data and knowledge reinforce or challenge policy gaps and legislative deficiencies? This workshop looks into research methods that can bridge existing gaps in services, mainstreaming knowledge and research tools, and creating more collaborative, inclusive and credible systems of knowledge production? The course focuses on survey models, research methods and quantitative as well as qualitative tools.