Dr. Richard Michael O’Meara

Richard O'Meara is a teacher, scholar, and mentor who teaches courses on International Relations, Security Studies, and Global Affairs. A retired Brigadier General, USA, and trial attorney, O’Meara received his Ph.D in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, and Juris Doctorate from Fordham University. His teaching and scholarship are informed by decades spent in the Army and service as international law counsel, with travel to such diverse locations as Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, Slovenia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peru, El Salvador, Panama, Guinea, Rwanda, Chad, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Israel and Iraq where he 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. In the days and months following 9/11, O’Meara worked as an EMT and Red Cross Responder at the World Trade Center Site. He has been active as a member of CETMONS, Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations and National Security, The International Society for Military Ethics, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and CIVIC, Campaign for Innocent Civilians in Conflict, and VETWORK, a veteran’s outreach organization.

O’Meara views teaching as an investment in the next generation of citizens, lawyers, police, diplomats, judges, security, government and non-governmental actors who will shape peace, justice and security at home and around the world.

O’Meara is also a poet and creative writer and lives on an Island in New Jersey with his wife of more than 53 years Mary Jean O'Meara. He has 13 grandchildren with whom he writes stories. He continues his affiliation with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, and acts as a member of the Surflight Regional Theatre Company, and plays with the Ocean County Emerald Society Pipes and Drums.