Dilwar Hussain
Dilwar Hussain is founding Chair of New Horizons in British Islam, an 'organisation that promotes critical discussions around Muslim identity, tradition and reform'.[1]
He is also Research Fellow at the University of Coventry's Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. Among other publications, he is the editor of the book British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State. Over the last 20 years he has advised government departments, provided policy consulting and training around issues of integration, identity and counter-extremism and has been a frequent analyst and commentator on British Muslim affairs.[1]
Affiliations
- Islamic Foundation
- Lokahi Foundation
- Trustee Maslaha
- Trustee of the Islamic Society of Britain
- Institute for Strategic Dialogue
- Trustee of the Faith & Belief Forum (FBF)
- Trustee (2012-2018) and Vice-Chair (2016-2018) of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
- Head of the Policy Research Centre (2007-2013)
- served on the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) (2006-2007)
- served on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Life and Faith (2005-2006).[1]
In 2009/10 Dilwar Hussain declared the following interests on appointment as a special advisor to the Preventing Violent Extremism enquiry of the UK Parliament Communities and Local Government Committee:
- Head of Policy Research Centre; Advisor to Weidenfeld Institute for Strategic Dialogue on their Islam in Europe programme of research; advising on a short-term Prevent related research project run by the Royal United Services Institute; on a review panel for HM Prison Service looking at literature in prisons; occasionally undertakes research and training projects related to identity, cohesion and preventing extremism for a variety of sources (including the Association of Local Government, the Communities and Local Government Department of HMG, the Change Institute, St Philips Centre in Leicester and the Apex Partnership).[2]
Contact
- Twitter: @DilwarH
- Internet Archive holdings of Blog: dilwar.org
- Internet Archive holdings of Blog: dilwarh.wordpress.com
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Faith and Belief forum Founders, Trustees and Patrons. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 27 March 2020 on 27 March 2020.
- ↑ Preventing Violent Extremism - Communities and Local Government Committee Parliament.uk. Accessed 27 March 2020.
