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Dr Mohamed M. Keshavjee is a second generation South African of Indian origin. A graduate of Queen’s University Canada, he attained his LLM and PhD degrees at the School of Oriental and African Stud
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ies, London University. He was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn London. After leaving South Africa in 1962, Dr Keshavjee lived in Kenya where he went to school and later practiced law. From 1980 till 2010 he worked in France with the Secretariat of His Highness the Aga Khan. He is a specialist in Alternative Dispute Resolution in cross cultural contexts with a special emphasis on diasporic communities. In 2016, he was awarded the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Peace Award by the Martin Luther King Jnr. International Chapel at Morehouse College Atlanta for his global work in the field of mediation. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Darwin International Institute for the Study of Compassion in the United Kingdom, a member of the panel of advisers to the International Social Service of Switzerland and a consultant to the Hague Conference on Private International law. He has written two books “Islam, Sharia and Alternative Dispute Resolution” and “Into That Heaven of Freedom”, the latter being a memoir capturing the history of the Indian settlement in Africa in the 20th century as viewed from the diasporic perspective of his large extended family.
