Fellows & Grantees

Yunana Ahmed

Project Title
Rethinking Deradicalization and Peacebuilding: Analyzing IDPs’ Discursive Stance and Appraisal in Northeast Nigeria

Bio

Yunana Ahmed is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Gombe State University, Nigeria. He earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture from Michigan Technological University in the United States and holds both an MA and BA in English Language from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Additionally, he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation at Makerere University, Uganda. Dr. Ahmed has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, including the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), African Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship with Residency at Rhodes University, South Africa, the Fulbright Scholarship at Michigan State University, and the Rotary Peace Fellowship at the Makerere Rotary Peace Center. His research focuses on political rhetoric, crisis communication, and peace linguistics. He has also initiated and implemented various community projects aimed at peacebuilding, such as “Meeting on Education Respect, Resilience, and Inclusion,” supported by the Public Diplomacy Section, U.S. Mission in Nigeria, and “Promoting Peace Education through Tolerance, Respect, and Inclusion,” supported by the State2State USAID activity, among others.

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