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Program Analyst -
Oregon Department of Justice, Civil Rights Unit

Visiting Scholar - 

Portland State University, Middle East Studies Center

Harout Akdedian PhD

I joined the Civil Rights Unit at the Oregon Department of Justice as Program Analyst in early 2022. I am also Visiting Scholar at Portland State University’s Middle East Studies Center. 

I currently study the intersections of state-society relations, extremism and civil rights.

Books

'Providing important analysis of Syria, Iraq and beyond, this book very usefully challenges the idea of a 'transition' to peace and good governance, suggesting instead that a variety of wartime fighters, fiefdoms and proto-states - linked to external backers and sometimes with government support - have formed the basis for extraction and corruption underpinned by continuing violence. A sobering corrective to magical thinking about peace.'

David Keen 
Professor of Conflict Studies 
London School of Economics

'This book fills a major gap in the literature on Syria by applying the novel concept of atrophy on the Syrian state and opening up new horizons of research. Akdedian has written an empirically rich, theoretically innovative, and exceptionally well-informed book that impressively straddles different bodies of scholarship.'

Uğur Ümit Üngör

Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Amsterdam

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

On Violence and Radical Theology in The Syrian War

Ethno-Religious Belonging in the Syrian Conflict

State Atrophy and Reconfiguration of Borderlands in Syria and Iraq

Workshops and Teaching

Cognitive Bias and Cultural Humility: Introduction to Theory and Practice  

Professional Workshop

Principles and Methods of Data Justice and Data Equity

Graduate level course, Professional Workshop

Peace and Conflict Studies: An Introduction

Undergraduate level course

Impact of Anti-Immigrant Hate: A Trauma-Informed Perspective for Service Providers

Professional Workshop

State-Society Relations in the 21-st Century

Graduate level course

State Formation and Social Conflict  in Syria

Undergraduate/Graduate level course

Interrupting Hate: Trauma-Informed Principles and Measures

Professional Workshop

Public Administration from a Comparative Perspective 

Undergraduate/Graduate level course

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