Heribert Adam

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'''Heribert Adam''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} (born 1936) is a [[German-Canadian]] university professor and author. Adam is professor emeritus of [[political sociology]] at [[Simon Fraser University]], specializing in [[human rights]], comparative [[racism]]s, peace studies, Southern Africa, and [[ethnic conflict]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html |title=Heribert Adam - Sociology & Anthropology - Simon Fraser University |website=www.sfu.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904062442/http://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html |archive-date=2015-09-04}} </ref> Originally from [[Frankfurt]], Germany, he is a former president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations.<ref name=bio>[http://www.socanth.sfu.ca/people/heribert_adam "Heribert Adam"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112014348/http://www.socanth.sfu.ca/people/heribert_adam |date=2013-11-12 }}, [[Simon Fraser University]].</ref>

Adam is noted for his work on [[ethnonationalism]], which aims at understanding intergroup conflict and fostering a human rights culture that minimizes [[bigotry]] and communal strife.

Adam was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Research Award in 1998 for a project on how democracies deal with crimes they have committed in the past. He was elected a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in 2000. The Society wrote of his work: "Mainly drawing upon [[Nazi Germany]] and [[History of South Africa in the apartheid era|Apartheid South Africa]]—where he has been involved in facilitating the 'negotiated [[revolution]]'—his nuanced analysis of [[anti-Semitism]], [[Colonialism|colonial racism]], and [[Canada|Canadian]] treatment of [[minorities]] goes beyond the conventional preaching of [[Toleration|tolerance]]. [[Nelson Mandela]] in prison praised his work."<ref>''Simon Fraser University News'', July 21, 2000.</ref>

Adams was born in Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html |title=Heribert Adam - Sociology & Anthropology - Simon Fraser University |website=www.sfu.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904062442/http://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html |archive-date=2015-09-04}} </ref> He is married to [[Kogila Moodley]], Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Education at the [[University of British Columbia]], who is co-author of his book ''Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israeli and Palestinians'' and other works.

==Selected publications== *with Moodley, Kogila. ''Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians''. PA: Temple University Press, 2005. *with van Zyl Slabbert, F & Moodley, Kogila. ''Comrades in Business. Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa''. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1997. Third edition 1999. Also published by: International Books, Utrecht, 1998. *with Moodley, Kogila. ''The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Published in South Africa as ''The Negotiated Revolution: Society and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa'', Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1993. *with Moodley, Kogila. ''South Africa Without Apartheid. Dismantling Racial Domination''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Expanded German edition: Edition Suhrkamp. NF 369, 1987. Second edition 1988. *with Giliomee, H. ''Ethnic Power Mobilized''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Afrikaans edition, 1981. *''Modernizing Racial Domination. The Dynamics of South African Politics''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Third edition, 1976. *"Anti-Semitism and Anti-Black Racism: Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa". [http://www.telospress.com ''Telos''] 108 (Summer 1996). New York: Telos Press.

==See also== {{Portal|Biography}} * [[List of German Canadians]]

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *[[Benjamin Pogrund|Pogrund, Benjamin]]. [https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,,1704895,00.html "Why depict Israel as a chamber of horrors like no other in the world?"], ''The Guardian'', February 8, 2006. *Lazarus, Baila. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928162010/http://www.jewishindependent.ca/Archives/Sept05/archives05Sept30-01.html "Lessons from South Africa"], ''Jewish Independent'', September 30, 2005.

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