Ali Akbar Alikhani was born in Iran in 1968 and serves as a Professor at the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran, in the field of Islamic political thought, peace studies, ethics and justice. A part of Dr. Alikhani’s scholarly works is dedicated to the field of “peace and negation of violence”.
He established the permanent secretariat of the annual international conferences on “Peace and Conflict Resolution” at the University of Tehran in 2017. So far, he has managed to organise four of these conferences.
The first conference was held on April 29–30, 2019, and the second one on November 23 – 24, 2020. The third and fourth conferences were held October 18-20, 2021, and May 29-30, 2023, at the University of Tehran. The Fifth Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution will be held on May 27 – 28, 2024. All about it here.
Another of his important peace research efforts is establishing academic peace and conflict resolution studies at both graduate and PhD. at the University of Tehran. They are expected to be launched in October 2024.
Here are some of Professor Alikhani’s academic works on peace and conflict resolution – and many more can be found here:
Books
2013- Islam and Peaceful Coexistence: The Challenge of Modern World for Existence, Tehran: Beh Afarin Press.
2009 – An Introduction to Political Theory of Justice in Islam (Supervisor and editor), Tehran: Institute for Social and Cultural Studies Press.
Book chapters
2021 – “Human dignity, violence and Ethics in Imam Ali’s political thought” in Social Ethics in Nahjolblaghah, Editors: Ahmad Pakatchi and Morteza Salman Nejad, Book House Institute.
2011 – “Ethical Fundamental and Principles of Islam in International Relations” in Ethics & International Relations, Mahdi Zakerian, Imam Sadiq University Press.
Articles published in peer-reviewed journals
2023 – “Justice in Holy Qura’an: A Practical Approach”, Religious Inquiry, Vol. 13.
2022 – “Islam and the Nature of Endless Violence in the Middle East,” PRIME, No.45, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
2012 – “Status and Citizenship Rights of Minorities and Coexistence in Islam”, Philosophy Study (USA), Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2012.
2011 – “Strategies for Peaceful Coexistence in Islam”, Book of articles, Sociality and Economics Development, Kuala Lumpur: Iacsit Press, Vol. 10, 2011.
2010 “Ethics of Enmity in Political Thought of Islam”, Research letter of Political Science, Association of Iranian Political Science, No. 20, 2010.