Qamar-ul Huda

Dr Qamar-ul Huda is a Senior Program Officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Program and a scholar of Islam at US Institute of Peace . His area of expertise is Islamic theology, intellectual history, ethics, comparative ethics, the language of violence, conflict resolution and non-violence in contemporary Islam. His edited USIP book, The Crescent and Dove: Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam, provides a critical analysis of models of nonviolent strategies, peace building efforts, conflict resolution methods in Muslim communities. He earned his doctorate from UCLA in Islamic intellectual history and his B.A. from Colgate University.