Neamat Nojumi

Neamat Nojumi is a scholar on Central and Southwest Asia and the Author of the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region (2002) as well as number of research papers on the contemporary politics of the above regions. Nojumi has worked as a consultant on Afghanistan with Tufts University/the United States Agency for International Development USAID for several times. He is a frequent public speaker on Central and southwest Asia. Nojumi 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 has studied at Yale, West Hartford, and Tufts Universities. He received a BA in Politics and Government from University of Hartford and a MALD (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.