Ami M. Angell's Bio

Ami M. Angell, PhD, LLM is currently a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research. She has spent a substantial amount of time working in the Middle East including 44 months in Iraq (2005-2008) and 24 months in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. She has also worked and lived in Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Switzerland, France and England. While in Iraq, Angell’s primary focus was working alongside the U.S. military in detention operations. She resided primarily at Camp Bucca- then considered the largest detainee facility in the world with over 20,000 Iraqi detainees. As Program Lead for Operational Support and Services (OSS) she was responsible for the direct supervision and implementation of detainee rehabilitation programs to include religious discussion, education, vocational training, creative arts and civics. This included daily active interaction with the terrorist detainee population in addition to the hire and oversight of 150 local Iraqi professionals who lived on base and directly administered the programs.

In 2010 she was invited to Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan and (back to) Iraq to evaluate and advise on the emerging and evolving extremist rehabilitation programs and assess their quality. In addition to detainee rehabilitation, Dr. Angell is passionate about programs in capacity building, the right to education, human trafficking, and protection from torture.

Angell has a PhD in Public International Law from American University of London, an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, an MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, and a BA in Theology, Philosophy and Sociology from Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. She is originally from Oregon, U.S.A.