Sezai Ozcelik

Dr Sezai Ozcelik is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Administrative and Economics Science, Department of International Relations, Cankiri Karatekin University, Cankiri, Turkey. Previously, he was visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies (CPRS), Coventry University, UK. He received his PhD on Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (SCAR), Fairfax, VA, USA. His MA degree was in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University, School of International Studies in Washington DC. He received his B.A. in International Relations at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science in Ankara, Turkey. He has extensive experience in protracted conflict areas, including the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Caucasus region, Cyprus, the Basque conflict and Crimean Tatar conflicts. He has also written about Islamic conflict resolution, Islamic peace paradigm, preventive deployment, environmental regime negotiations and ethnocentrism. Dr Ozcelik has been involved in many EU projects including LLL, TOI, CFCU and Youth and recently completed an Early Childhood & Primary Education for Peace project. His current research interests are disaster diplomacy, chaos and complexity theories and conflict resolution, and nonviolent struggles.