MAHAMOUD ABDI SH.AHMED
SOMALILAND
Sponsor Rotary Club: Bunnik, District 1570, The Netherlands
Citizenship: Somalia
Languages: Somali, English, Arabic, Amharic
Education: BSc in education from Amoud University in Somaliland. Certificates of journalism from University of Pennsylvania, USA; International Summer School (ISS) student at University of Oslo Norway to study International Development Studies.
Areas of special interest: Conflict Resolution
Background to RWPF Award: My life experience in being a refugee because of an armed conflict and my later works as a refugee worker (a team leader with the Norwegian Refugee Council in Somaliland, which provides basic education to children of displaced families) made me gain great interest in studying conflict resolution.
What are you going to do with your RWPF?: Mahamoud Abdi Sheikh Ahmed currently is a MA student in Conflict Resolution at the University of Bradford, England, UK under the Fellowship of Rotary Foundation. Mr. Ahmed was born in Gabiley, North West of Somalia in 1977; grown up in Aw- bare Ethiopia (as a refugee) where he had his primary education.
Background
Mr. Ahmed earned Bachelor of Science in education (Bsc) from Amoud University in the first university batch in Somaliland. He later took certificates of journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, via internet; before he joined in the University of Oslo Norway as International Summer School (ISS) student and study International Development Studies (IDS), an advanced Masters Degree course that university of Oslo gives.
Mr. Ahmed is a fellow of many foreign associations and friends; and wrote papers: Deafness and Education, the Curable Deadly Disease-TB in Borama, and a few articles on Somali literature.
Mr. Ahmed worked as a Teacher (both deaf and hearing), Reporter, Newscaster, TV Manager and humanitarian worker for the Norwegian Refugee Council (The NRC), an International Humanitarian Organization, as Education Team Leader in Somaliland before he joined to the University of Bradford as a student. His life experience in being a refugee because of a conflict and his later works as a refugee worker made him gain great interest in studying conflict resolution. His research interests include nonverbal behavior, social issues, natural science and education. His spare time is most devoted to serious studying, self-help, managing, teaching, reading and writing. He has 6 brothers, a sister, Mother and Father.