S. Azmat Hassan
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Syed Azmat Hassan is a former Ambassador of Pakistan and a former senior faculty associate of the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, specialising in Diplomacy and Middle Eastern studies. He was associated with the Lahore University of Management Sciences in its Humanities and Social Sciences Department. He was born on 7 August 1944 in Sialkot, Pakistan to Syed Fida Hassan and Zeenat Hassan. He died on 13 January 2020.{{cn|date=September 2016}}
Education
Syed Azmat Hassan studied at St. Anthony's High School in Lahore. In 1963 he was awarded a BA degree in economics, political science and history by the University of the Punjab and in 1966 he obtained an MA in economics from the University of Cambridge. He gained an MSc in dtrategic dtudies from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, in 1984.{{Cite web|title = Azmat Hassan {{!}} LinkedIn|url = https://www.linkedin.com/in/azmat-hassan-b4904617|website = linkedin.com|access-date = 29 January 2016}}
Civil service
Since 1968, Hassan's civil service assignments have included ambassadorships in Malaysia, Syria (with responsibility for Lebanon) and Morocco. He has also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York City. He has been an additional secretary for foreign affairs and defence issues at the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, where he also served as head of the Middle East desk and as director-general of the Afghanistan Division.{{Cite web|url = http://thedailyjournalist.com/wc-n-4/|title = The Daily Journalist Club|website = }}
At the 1991 Food and Agriculture Organization conference in Rome, Hassan represented Pakistan as Additional Secretary.{{Cite web|title = List of delegates and observers (continued) – IRAQ|url = http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5587e/x5587e0j.htm|website = fao.org|access-date = 31 January 2016}} He was elected a joint vice-chairman at a conference convened by the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1994 to adopt the Convention on Nuclear Safety.{{Cite web|title = INFCIRC/449/Add.1 – Convention on Nuclear Safety|url = http://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/documents/infcircs/1994/inf449a1.shtml|website = iaea.org|access-date = 31 January 2016}}
Academia
After ending his civil service career, Hassan joined the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in fall 2000 as an adjunct professor of Diplomacy and International Relations. He taught courses on the modern Middle East and Afghanistan and represented the school in numerous conferences.{{cn|date=September 2016}}
Hassan became associated with the Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2006. There he taught a number of courses as an adjunct faculty member, and later as full-time visiting faculty.{{cn|date=September 2016}}
Role in the Lawyers' Movement
In 2008, Hassan and 25 other former ambassadors were co-signatories to a letter to the newly formed federal government that demanded the immediate restoration of deposed judges. They regretted the delay in abiding by the Murree Declaration and said there was no need to link restoration of the judges with constitutional amendments to reform the judiciary.{{Cite web|title = 26 ex-envoys regret delay in deposed judges' reinstatement|url = http://nation.com.pk/Politics/18-May-2008/26-exenvoys-regret-delay-in-deposed-judges-reinstatement|website = The Nation|access-date = 31 January 2016}}
Other affiliations
Hassan has been associated with various organisations, think-tanks, etc. He is Senior Adviser, Board of Sponsors, Center For War / Peace Studies.{{Cite web|title = who we are {{!}} Center for War/Peace Studies|url = http://cwps.org/who-we-are|website = cwps.org|access-date = 31 January 2016}} He is also associated with the Global Peace Foundation{{Cite web|title = Amb. S. Azmat Hassan {{!}} Global Peace Foundation|url = http://www.globalpeace.org/people/amb-s-azmat-hassan|website = globalpeace.org|access-date = 31 January 2016}} and serves on the boards of organisations including the New Jersey Division of the UNA-USA,{{Cite web|title = UNA-NY: Worldview Institute Faculty|url = http://www.unanyc.org/worldview_institute/faculty/hassan_s_azmat.html|website = unanyc.org|access-date = 31 January 2016}} and the Center for UN Reform Education.{{cn|date=September 2016}}
Publications and presentations
Hassan had been invited speaker at various fora in the United States, Germany,{{Cite web|title = Ambassador Hassan delivered a Lecture at University of Passau in January, 2012|url = http://lums.edu.pk/news-details.php/ambassador-hassan-delivers-lecture-at-university-of-passau-246|website = lums.edu.pk|access-date = 29 January 2016}} Malaysia, and Pakistan. He is also a frequent commentator on international affairs for television and radio. Hassan also writes widely on foreign affairs for the press. His articles and perspectives have appeared in the Daily Record (New Jersey), the Star-Ledger (New Jersey) and Dawn (Pakistan), The Daily Journalist,{{Cite web|title = Azmat Hassan – Think Research Expose {{!}} Think Research Expose|url = http://thedailyjournalist.com/author/azmathassan/|website = thedailyjournalist.com|access-date = 31 January 2016}} The Huffington Post. Among his publications and presentations are:
- Countering Violent Extremism: The fate of the Tamil Tigers EastWest Institute New York; 14 May 2009{{Cite web|title = Countering Violent Extremism: The Fate of the Tamil Tigers {{!}} EastWest Institute|url = http://www.eastwest.ngo/idea/countering-violent-extremism-fate-tamil-tigers|website = eastwest.ngo|access-date = 29 January 2016}}
- Keynote Essay: 'Some Reflections on Pakistan' in 'Home and the World:South Asia in Transition' Cambridge Scholars Press{{Cite web|url = http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/59064|title = Home and the World South Asia in Transition|website = }} (This essay was in response to Shashi Tharoor's Opening Keynote for the 2005 Conference on South Asia at Rutgers University)
- Presentation: 'Faith and Diversity: Toward a Global Ethic for Inclusive and Moderate Societies
' at Global Peace Convention, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia; 6 December 2013.{{Cite journal|title = [Ambassador Hassan] Speech: Presentation by Ambassador S. Azmat Hassa...|url = http://www.slideshare.net/GlobalPeaceFoundation/global-peace-convention-presentation-by-s-azmat-hassan-on-december-6-2013|date = 18 December 2013}} - Presentation: 'Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)
' on 22 October 2014.{{Cite web|title = Ambassador S. Azmat Hassan on the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) {{!}} Journal of Diplomacy|url = http://blogs.shu.edu/diplomacy/2014/10/ambassador-s-azmat-hassan-on-the-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant-isis/|website = Journal of Diplomacy| date=23 October 2014 |access-date = 31 January 2016}} - Guest Speaker: Lecture on 'Progress of the United States-Pakistani Coalition Against Terrorism
'; The Guarini Center for Governmental Affairs lecture series in the Pope Lecture Hall on 23 September 2004.{{Cite web|title = Guarini Center Lecture Series features former Pakistani Ambassador – Saint Peter's University Alumni|url = http://alumni.saintpeters.edu/news/446/Guarini-Center-Lecture-Series-features-former-Pakistani-Ambassador.htm|website = alumni.saintpeters.edu|access-date = 31 January 2016}} - Essay: '
The United Nations in an era of globalisation ' in 'Multilateral diplomacy and the United Nations today ' by edited by James P. Muldoon, Jr. ... [et al.] Westview Press, c2005,2nd ed.{{Cite book|edition = 2nd|title = Multilateral diplomacy and the United Nations today|url = http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA74134186|publisher = Westview Press|date = 1 January 2005|first1 = James P.|last1 = Muldoon|first2 = Joann Fagot|last2 = Aviel|first3 = Richard|last3 = Reitano|first4 = Earl|last4 = Sullivan}} - Lecture: 'Faith and Action at the Crossroads: The Role of Faith Leaders in the Public Square Today
', at Global Peace Leadership Conference, Washington DC; September 2013.{{Citation|title = Amb. Azmat Hassan Speaks on the Role of Interfaith in the Public Square|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyhSZ8SdxU|date = 8 October 2014|accessdate = 31 January 2016|last = Global Peace Foundation}}{{Cite web|title = Amb. Azmat Hassan Speaks at Concurrent Session on Interfaith {{!}} Global Peace Foundation|url = https://www.globalpeace.org/media-gallery/detail/1578/3029|website = globalpeace.org|access-date = 31 January 2016}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.shu.edu/academics/diplomacy/ School of Diplomacy website]
- [http://diplomatandprofessor.blogspot.com/ Personal Blog]
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