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RICHARD M. O’MEARA, PhD, JD
omearar@msn.com
Richard M. O’Meara is a retired Brigadier General, USA, and a Professor of Global and Homeland Security Affairs. He has received a PhD in Global Affairs from Rutgers University and a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University. He has also received two Masters Degrees in History and International Affairs and graduated from the US Army War College and the Command and General Staff College amongst other schools. He presently teaches International Law in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University and has developed and teaches in the first Homeland Security Studies Program in New Jersey. His interests are reflected in courses he has taught and developed over the years at various institutions including War, Genocide, and International Law, Nationalism and Ethnic Violence, Intelligence Law and Function, US Security Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa, US Security Interests in the North Pacific, Human Rights Law and Practice, and The American Way of War.
As an Adjunct Faculty member of the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies, O’Meara has traveled to such diverse locations as Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, Slovenia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peru, El Salvador, Panama, Guinea, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone and Iraq where he has taught rule of law and governance issues to civil and military stakeholders and helped to develop programs designed to strengthen constructive relationships between members of civil and military society.
As a Fellow in the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, United States Naval Academy, O’Meara worked with colleagues towards the adaption of military ethics to emerging technologies and he has written and presented widely in the area of the use of robotics and other technologies as tools of war. He continues this work as a member of CETMONS,
International/Global Studies
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