Dr. Omar Sadr is a Research Scholar at the Center for Governance and Markets in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Previously he worked as an Assistant Professor at the American University of Afghanistan, as a Senior Researcher at the Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies and as a Researcher at the Department of Peace Studies at the National Centre for Policy Research at Kabul University. His primary research interests include political theory, governance of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue, multiculturalism, democratization, state-building and the peace process in Afghanistan, as well as the history, culture and society of Afghanistan. Dr. Sadr is an author of numerous books, chapters, book reviews, papers and articles. His most recent book, Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan, was published in 2020 by Routledge in London and New Delhi. Dr. Sadr holds a PhD (2018) and an MA (2013) in International Relations from South Asian University in New Delhi, India and a BA in Law and Political Science from Kabul University, Afghanistan (2009).