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Jacob A. Mundy is currently a PhD candidate at the University Exeter, UK, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He used to help maintain the website www.friendsofthewesternsahara.org ("a returned Peace Corps volunteer support group for the people of the western sahara").[1]

• Executive Committee, Concerned Africa Scholars ^[1]

Contents 1 Experience [2] 1.1 Work 1.2 Fellowships 1.3 Select Talks 1.4 Publications 2 Resources and articles 2.1 Related Sourcewatch 2.2 References

Experience ^[2]

Work

• 2004 - 2007 Amnesty International USA: Assistant Country Specialist, North Africa
• 2005 International Crisis Group: External Consulting Analyst, September-December
• 1999 - 2001 Peace Corps Volunteer, Morocco

Fellowships

• 2006 - 2009 Overseas Research Student Award Scheme, University of Exeter
• 2007 - 2008 Center for Maghrib Studies in Algeria (American Institute for Maghrib Studies) Long-term research grant
• 2007 HRH Prince Alwaleed Al-Saud Postgraduate Research Award
• 2006 Society for Military and Strategic Studies 2006 Journal of Military and Strategic, Studies Award of Excellence
• 2006 Institute for Anarchist Studies, Writing Grant

Select Talks

In 2006 Mundy also gave a Presentation on Western Sahara, Briefing for Ambassador-designate for Algeria, Robert Ford, U.S. State Department and National Intelligence Council (10 August 2006).

Other related talks include:

• 2006 Presentations on Morocco and Western Sahara, Seminar on Western Sahara, U.S. State Department and National Intelligence Council (15 February 2006)
• 2006 Paper on Western Sahara, Islam, Terrorism and Economic Marginality in the Sahara-Sahel, U.S. National Intelligence Council seminar (9 February 2006)

Publications

Books

• Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution in Northwest Africa, coauthor with Stephen Zunes, Syracuse University Press, forthcoming

Chapters

• 2009 - 'The Failure of Transformative Minority Politics in Algeria: The Kabyli Citizens' Movement and the State' in Minorities and the State in Africa, Michael Mbanaso and Chima J. Korieh (eds), forthcoming
• 2009 - 'Ethno-Nationalism, Irredentism and Asymmetric Conflict: The Morocco-Polisario War for Western Sahara, 1975-1991' in Conflict and Insurgency in the Modern Middle East, Barry Rubin (ed.), Taylor and Francis, forthcoming
• 2007 - 'Western and Saharan Africa, History of (600 to 1600 CE)', in New Encyclopedia of Africa, John Middleton (ed.), Charles Scribner's Sons/Thompson Gale
• 2007 - 'Colonial Formations in Western Saharan National Identity (Or, On the Ethnogenesis of the Sahrawi)', in North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities, Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Press: 294-320

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

References

1. ↑ Executive Committee, Concerned Africa Scholars, accessed March 17, 2009.
2. ↑ CV, Jacob A. Mundy, accessed September 10, 2007.