Omar Sadr

Scholar, Author & Policy Analyst

Pluralism & Governance

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Omar Sadr

I am a political scientist with extensive experience spanning academia and think tanks. Currently, I am a senior research scholar at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) and the founding editor-in-chief and host of Negotiating Ideas, an online magazine and podcast on democracy and pluralism. I am also a non-resident fellow at Princeton University's Afghanistan Policy Lab.

Negotiating Ideas

Negotiating Ideas is a Podcast about liberty, democracy, and pluralism in Afghanistan and around the world. I am Omar Sadr, a scholar in exile, forced to flee my homeland overnight due to the Taliban’s brutality. In this podcast, as in my research, I explore how totalitarianism threatens democracy and the ways in which societies reinstitute freedom, democracy, and pluralism. My goal is to create a space for those who value pluralism, democracy, and liberty to find each other to develop solidarity and clarity.

Omar Sadr and Adam Baczko discuss the Taliban courts and how their legal outlook provided them a breakthrough in the conflict. Originally published in French and recently translated into English by Oxford University Press in …