Heribert Adam (born 1936) is a German-Canadian university professor and author. Adam is professor emeritus of

political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...

, specializing in

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

, comparative

racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism ...

s, peace studies, Southern Africa, and

ethnic conflict An ethnic conflict is a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups. While the source of the conflict may be political, social, economic or religious, the individuals in conflict must expressly fight for their ethnic group's positi ...

. Originally from

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

, Germany, he is a former president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations."Heribert Adam"
,

. Adam is noted for his work on

ethnonationalism Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various politi ...

, which aims at understanding intergroup conflict and fostering a human rights culture that minimizes

bigotry Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ...

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 The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

in 2000. The Society wrote of his work: "Mainly drawing upon

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

and

Apartheid South Africa Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

—where he has been involved in facilitating the 'negotiated

revolution In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...

'—his nuanced analysis of

anti-Semitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

, colonial racism, and

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

treatment of minorities goes beyond the conventional preaching of tolerance.

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...

in prison praised his work." Adams was born in Germany. He is married to

Kogila Moodley Kogila Moodley is a published academic and sociologist at the University of British Columbia, where she was the first holder of the David Lam Chair of Multicultural Studies. She serves on the board of directors of the International Sociological As ...

, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Education at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

, 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"
''Telos''
108 (Summer 1996). New York: Telos Press.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Heribert Canadian political scientists Canadian sociologists Simon Fraser University faculty Living people 1936 births Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada German emigrants to Canada

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