Ali Hameed

social entrepreneur working from Peace House

Compiled from 1 recorded interview. Every statement below is drawn from the passage cited beside it.

Ali Hameed is a social entrepreneur whose work is in the field of peace and conflict. His full name is given as Syed Ali Hameed. His group operates from Peace House, a small social space.

Education

Hameed's background is in peace and conflict studies, after engineering. In 2007 and 2008 he was studying engineering, a subject he says he did not much like. [1]

Career

Hameed describes a student-based organisation that went into orphanages and worked during floods and earthquakes. He says the question for the group was which issues in Pakistan needed work. The group could not do everything and had to choose one area. It chose peace as a top priority area and began working on it. [1]

His group designs campaigns and projects on peace, tolerance and inclusivity. It looks closely at social issues and feels them. The group implements projects together with donors or government agencies that come forward. Its themes include gender-based violence, entrepreneurship, and democracy and governance. Peace House hosts community events, study circles and sessions on critical thinking. [1]

Views on peace

Hameed says that if there is peace, a doctor, an engineer and a blogger can each do their work. He says that in Pakistan only direct violence is treated as violence, and that many people do not regard structural and cultural violence as violence. He says studying peace and conflict taught him that there is negative peace and positive peace. [1]

Hameed explains negative peace as the absence of physical violence while people are still discriminated against on structural grounds. He says that under negative peace people cannot work according to their abilities and lack opportunities. [1]

Views on leadership

Hameed says most major Pakistani leaders came up through student unions, apart from a few family lines. He says a leader is someone who unites people rather than divides them. He says there are many activists but not enough leaders, and that people often treat an unstable, rebellious activist as a leader. [1]

He says a leader should not take an extremist stance, whichever side it comes from. He says bringing a person up as a leader would be an evolutionary process of about forty years. [1]

Timeline

2007
Studying engineering, which he was still doing in 2008[1]

Appearances

DateTitleWhere
2020-12-09 Influence requires nuance and responsibility Thought Behind Things

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ali Hameed?

Ali Hameed is a social entrepreneur whose work is in the field of peace and conflict. His full name is given as Syed Ali Hameed. His group operates from a small social space called Peace House.[1]

What does Ali Hameed do?

Ali Hameed's group designs campaigns and projects on peace, tolerance and inclusivity. It implements projects together with donors or government agencies that come forward. Its themes include gender-based violence, entrepreneurship, and democracy and governance.[1]

Where did Ali Hameed study?

Ali Hameed's background is in peace and conflict studies, after engineering. He was studying engineering in 2007 and 2008. The facts on record do not name the institutions.[1]

What is Peace House?

Peace House is a small social space from which Ali Hameed's group operates. It hosts community events, study circles and sessions on critical thinking.[1]

What is negative peace according to Ali Hameed?

Ali Hameed explains negative peace as the absence of physical violence while people are still discriminated against on structural grounds. He says that under negative peace people cannot work according to their abilities and lack opportunities.[1]

What does Ali Hameed say makes a leader?

Ali Hameed says a leader is someone who unites people rather than divides them. He says a leader should not take an extremist stance, whichever side it comes from. He also says there are many activists but not enough leaders.[1]

References

  1. Influence requires nuance and responsibility . Thought Behind Things , 2020-12-09.
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  1. His full name is given as Syed Ali Hameed. In conversation with Syed Ali Hameed, this episode explores peace and conflict.
  2. He describes himself as a social entrepreneur. matlab main social entrepreneur hoon
  3. His work is in the field of peace and conflict. Meri domain jo hai woh peace and conflict ki hai
  4. His background is in peace and conflict studies, after engineering. mera background peace and conflict studies ka hai, engineering ke baad
  5. Ali says he was studying engineering in 2007 and 2008. Hum 2007 mein, 8 mein jab engineering kar rahe thay
  6. Ali says he did not much like engineering. Engineering toh waise bhi koi zyada pasand nahi thi
  7. His group designs campaigns and projects on peace, tolerance and inclusivity. muashray mein different aise issues jo pertaining to peace, tolerance, inclusivity hain, unke gird different qisam ki campaigns design karte hain
  8. The group implements projects together with donors or government agencies that come forward. kabhi koi donor mil jata hai, kabhi koi government agency mil jati hai, toh unke saath mil ke hum un projects ko implement karte hain
  9. The group looks closely at social issues and feels them. hum muashray ke mukhtalif issues ko dekhte hain, bade gaur se dekhte hain, unko mehsoos karte hain
  10. The group's themes include gender-based violence, entrepreneurship, and democracy and governance. gender-based violence hamari ek aur theme hai, entrepreneurship hai, democracy and governance
  11. Peace House is a small social space from which the group operates. Peace House jo ki ek chhoti si keh lijiye ki social space hai, jahan se hum operate karte hain
  12. Peace House hosts community events, study circles and sessions on critical thinking. jahan hum chhote-chhote community events rakhte hain, study circles rakhte hain, critical thinking pe sessions rakhte hain
  13. Ali describes a student-based organisation that went into orphanages and worked during floods and earthquakes. ek student-based organization thi, idara tha, hum orphanages mein chale jate thay, hum sailab mein kaam karein, hum zalzalay mein kaam karein
  14. The group chose peace as a top priority area and began working on it. humne is domain ko isliye phir chuna as a as a top priority area aur is pe humne kaam karna shuru kiya
  15. Ali says they could not do everything, so they had to choose one area. hum sab kar nahi sakte, we have to choose
  16. Ali says that if there is peace, a doctor, an engineer and a blogger can each do their work. Ek doctor apna kaam kar sakta hai, ek engineer apna kaam kar sakta hai, ek blogger apna kaam kar sakta hai agar peace hai toh
  17. Ali says that in Pakistan only direct violence is treated as violence. hamare yahan sirf direct violence ko violence samjha jata hai
  18. Ali says many people do not regard structural and cultural violence as violence. structural violence, violence nahi hai, cultural violence, violence nahi hai
  19. Ali says studying peace and conflict taught him that there is negative peace and positive peace. peace and conflict mein aaye toh yeh jana ki yaar ek negative peace hota hai, ek positive peace hota hai
  20. Ali explains negative peace as the absence of physical violence while people are still discriminated against on structural grounds. physical violence na ho, lekin structural bunyadon par, kisi ke rang nasal ki bunyad par, kisi ki zaat paat ki bunyad par, usko discriminate kiya jaye
  21. Ali says that under negative peace people cannot work according to their abilities and lack opportunities. log apne salahiyaton ke mutabiq kaam nahi kar pa rahe, unko mawaqe nahi mil rahe
  22. Ali says the question for the group was which issues in Pakistan needed work. Uh is mein humein laga ki yaar watan-e-aziz mein kya issues hain jin par kaam kiya jaye
  23. Ali says most major Pakistani leaders came up through student unions, apart from a few family lines. Apart from do teen families jo chal rahi hain, baqi sara bada leader jiska bada role raha hai Pakistan ke evolution ke andar woh student union se aaya hai
  24. Ali says a leader is someone who unites people rather than divides them. a leader is someone who unites people rather than divides people
  25. Ali says there are many activists but not enough leaders. when I said we don't have enough leaders, we have a lot of activists
  26. Ali says people often treat an unstable, rebellious activist as a leader. so we consider someone who is an unstable rebellious activist to be a leader
  27. Ali says a leader should not take an extremist stance, whichever side it comes from. Woh apna itne koi extremist stance na le, chahe woh extremist stance hamare wala ho ya dusre wale ka ho ya kis wale ka bhi ho
  28. Ali says bringing a person up as a leader would be an evolutionary process of about forty years. in 40 years I can bring him up to that, that has to be an evolutionary process
  29. Ali says the leader of the next twenty years will come from among people like the viewers. jo 20 saal baad leader niklega woh hum mein se hi niklega. Woh in viewers mein se hi niklega