Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam

Dr. Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam was born in the year 1981 in Afghanistan. He is for the promotion of peace, justice and human right in the country. He is a writer, an activist and a commentator in the social media. He is also a political analyst. He is the founder and the chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN). Shafiq has also served with the United Nation's schemes, the United States Government as well as NATO. Since the year 1997 he has been working in the private sector, civil society organizations, free media, the United Nations projects, United State Government as well as NATO in diverse grounds and situations together with good governance, security, social as well as economic, political and international relations, public diplomacy, encouraging democracy and human rights. He momentarily worked as a journalist through the Moby Media. Because of his involvement to transparency, peace, justice and security of the country, he is chosen for Noble Peace Prize by Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat (NATO Transparency Task Forces).

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Early Life and Education

Hamdam was born in Alishing village in the Laghman region of Afghanistan in the year 1981. He is of the Malikzai family of the Ghurids and Afghan empire from 1148 to1215. In the year 1986 he registered in primary school at the time of the soviet invasion in the country. He went to Lam-e-Shahid High School in Kabul and he finished in the year 1999 at the time of the Taliban era from Shahid Muhammad Arif High School from Jalalabad and in the same year he got an admission in Nangarhar University in the Faculty of Political Science. Shortly after he was expelled from the university by the leadership of the university, this was because of the article he wrote on the destruction of Buddhas of Bamivan.

In the year 2002 he got his Bachelor of Health Sciences from the Nangarhar Institute of Health Science, in the year 2003, Shafiq was honored with Advance Diploma in Administration and Economics from the Swiss College of Administration and Economy and in the year 2010, he finished from George C Marshall Center, an European center for security studies in Germany, it was there that he studied advance security and international relations.

Shafiq spent all his life in his country and as a child he has seen the invasion of the country by the Soviet Union, he has experienced the civil war of the country and as a teenage and a young man, he has seen the Taliban era and the United States invasion of his country. He is good in several languages, including his native language that is Dari and also English, Urdu, Pashtu, Hindi and Arabic languages.

Career History

Currently, Shafiq works as the chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network, the largest and the leading network of the civil society organization that are fighting corruption in the country and since the year 2001, he has served as a senior media and Public Diplomacy advisor to the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, and there he has served as the Political and the Media Advisor since July 2008. Shafiq is a member of the Board of Directors; Modern Organization for Development of Education, Executive Board Chairman of Anti-Corruption Watch Organization. Shafiq is the founder of the Youth for Peace, Afghan Youth Against Corruption, Kabul Tribune, Anti-Corruption Watch Organization and he is a co-founder of the Afghan Women Coalition Against Corruption. Shafiq is a member of the Afghan Youth Leaders Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), he is a member of the Program Associate of Hiroshima Peace Builders Center, he is a member of the United Nation Coalition Against Corruption, he is a member of the Voice Against Corruption and a member of the Afghan Civil Society for Advocacy. In the 2009 provincial and presidential election of the country, he slightly worked for Moby Media, Tolo TV as a presenter of the Political round-table. From the May 2007 to July 2008, Shafiq served with the United States Department of Defense as the Media Coordinator and he served as the Spokesman for the United States Forces in the Eastern Afghanistan. From November 2004 to November 2008, he served as the Culture Advisor and Linguist for the United States Forces in Afghanistan.  And from January 2004 to November 2004, he worked as the Main Awareness Trainer, Admin and Logistic Officer and the Medical Assistant at the Demobilization Disarmament and Reintegration Project of the UN in Kabul. Between the years 2003 and 2004, he also served as a senior Radiographer and radiologist Technologist at a private clinic in Jalalabad city of the country. Between the year 2001 and the year 2003, he was a freelance interpreter and before that from January 1997 to November 2001, he served as a health Educator with the Health Net International TPO and World Health Organization in Jalalabad City in the eastern part of the country.

Writing on Afghanistan

Hamdam wrote many articles on the subject of Corruption, which is the affair of the country. His articles are published in the English language, as well as Russian, German, Dari and Pashtu. About the issues that are related to corruption in the country, he has been showing up in a good number of National and International Media houses like the Tolo TV, Ariana TV, Aljazeera TV, The Washington Post, AFP, ARD, VOA, TRT TV, RFE/RL, BBC, CBS and some other national and international media houses.