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Lessons Learned from a Quarter Century of Peacemaking on Three Continents
"Facilitating Peace Processes: Can Small Countries like Norway Play a Role?" by H.E. Aud Lise Norheim, Ambassador of Norway to Lebanon. The lecture is part of "The Ambassador in the Academy", an IFI program which brings ambassadors of countries and multinational institutions to AUB for a day to exchange thoughts with students, faculty and staff.
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The Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUB bringing ten prominent international mediators to AUB and Beirut over the coming two years to share their experiences with the AUB community and conflict-resolution practitioners and scholars in Lebanon and the Middle East. Alvaro de Soto Lessons Learned from a Quarter Century of Peacemaking on Three Continents. Alvaro de Soto, a Peruvian diplomat, left the United Nations in May 2007 after a 25-year career, his last position being the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. Mr de Soto led the 1990-1991 negotiations which ended the decade-long war in El Salvador. He conducted the 1999-2004 negotiations which led to the draft comprehensive settlement for the Cyprus problem. He was also the Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Myanmar (Burma) (1995-1999) and his Special Representative for the Western Sahara (2003-2005). He worked closely in his career with UN Secretaries-General Perez de Cuellar, Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan, in addition to holding senior positions in the Secretary-General's office and in the Department of Political Affairs.
"More Fraternity than Friction: The Role of Values and Policies in Relations between the United Kingdom and the Arab and Islamic World," by H.E. Frances Guy, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Lebanon. This was the first lecture of "The Ambassador in the Academy", a program of the Issam Fares Institute which brings ambassadors of countries and multinational institutions to AUB for a day to exchange thoughts with students, faculty and staff.
"60 Years Later: Challenges of Palestinian Refugee Camps with their Arab Host Communities," by Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). Previously she served for five years as an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Commissioner-General of UNRWA. Before joining UNRWA, she worked for the UNHCR for 19 years. She began her humanitarian career in Sudan in 1981, dealing with Ugandan, Chadian, and Ethiopian refugees, and subsequently served in Namibia, Liberia, Geneva, and Sarajevo.
"How Climate Change will Impact Multiple Sectors in Society: Scenarios for Lebanon". A NEW Program on The Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World. Inaugural Public lecture and open discussion with Nadim Farajalla, PhD Assistant Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at AUB.
"Can the Arab Region Have a Modern Political Economy? Lessons from the Rest of the World." Lecture by Marcus Marktanner, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Economics; Lana Salman, Economics undergraduate student; and Hania Bekdash, Economics special student.
"Are Changes in Insect Patterns in the Lebanese Mountains Evidence of Climate Change?" by Nabil Nemer, PhD, Research Associate at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB. Nemer holds a PhD in Forest Entomology and Chemical Ecology from the Université Paris-Sud 11 and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, France). His research focuses on chemical ecology of new insect pests attacking forests in Lebanon and the region. In 1999 Nemer became member of the Tannourine Cedar Forest Nature Reserve Committee and serves as national advisor on forest insect problems.
"Climate Change and the Arab World: Effects and Practical Implications for Water, Land, Food, and Urbanism" by George J. Nasr who has obtained a Doctor of Engineering degree from Texas A&M University in 1997, specializing in Civil Engineering and computer applications. George J. Nasr is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the Lebanese University, and consults on civil engineering and Information Technology applications.
Barbara Ibrahim, Phd since 2006 founder and director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo. She was Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa at the Population Council, a position she held since 1991. She was principal investigator on the major national survey of adolescents and their parents conducted in Egypt in 1997. Dr. Ibrahim advises groups across the Arab region on strategic philanthropy, social innovation, and corporate social responsibility. Ibrahim received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Middle East Women's Studies in 2003, and was inducted into the Educators Hall of Fame (USA) in 1999.
Promoting Reform from within the Arab World: Lessons Learnt from the Inception of the Arab Democracy Foundation
Saad Eddine Ibrahim, PhD, is one of Egypt's leading human rights activists and founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development. He is also a Professor of Political Sociology at the American University of Cairo. Dr. Ibrahim has written about democracy, Islam, civil society, citizenship and has received numerous awards such as the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award, and International Human Rights Award of the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights. He has published over a dozen books and numerous articles in English and Arabic. He is on the Board of Trustees at the Arab Democracy Foundation which was launched in 2007 as he has been involved in the effort from its inception.
The Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World "Seawater Intrusion in Greater Beirut: Current Situation and Early Signs of Climate Change" Mark Saadeh, PhD, is an instructor of Oceanography at the AUB Geology Department. Saadeh received his PhD in Hydrogeology at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. In his doctoral thesis he focused on seawater intrusion in the Greater Beirut area and its impact on water quality. He is currently a consultant to the Litani River Authority. Prior to joining AUB, he was project manager of the Litani Water Quality Management Project (LWQM) from 2004 to 2005. His interests are in hydrogeology, seawater intrusion and its implications on groundwater quality.
IFI and the Center for Behavioral Research at AUB held a lecture on Public Policy and Governance Challenges of Palestinian Refugee Camps in the Arab World A lecture and open discussion with: Richard Cook Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon
"Palestinian Camps and Refugees in Lebanon: Priorities, Challenges and Opportunities Ahead"
Richard Cook is Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon. He practiced for several years in both private and public organizations in the United Kingdom. He worked in private practice in Abu Dhabi, Pakistan and Dubai, before joining UNRWA in Vienna in 1985.In 1993 he transferred to the Gaza Strip, where he headed the UNRWA Construction Department, and in 1995 he was appointed Deputy Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza. In 1997 he was appointed Director of UNRWA Operations in the West Bank, where he remained until taking up his current assignment as Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon as of 1 November 2003.
The Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and Environment in theArab World "Te Tripod of Academia, Government and Private Sector: From Science to Policy Making" Dr. Berj Hatjian Director General, Lebanese Ministry of Environment Berj Hatjian, PhD, is an Environmental/Occupational Health Professional. He holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Health from American University of Beirut and a M.Sc. in Occupational Health & Hygiene as well as Ph.D. in Environmental & Occupational Toxicology from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Presently he occupies the post of the Director General, Directorate General of Environment at the Lebanese Ministry of Environment. Dr. Hatjian is a part-time Lecturer at the Public Health & Development Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. He is a member of many learned societies and is a Registered Toxicologist “EuroTox Registered Toxicologist”. He has several scientific articles published in renowned periodical like mutation research.
"My Journey in Political Economy and Public Policy: Reflections from the Arab World and other Developing Countries". John Waterbury, PhD, became the fourteenth president of AUB in January 1998. Before joining AUB, Waterbury was, for nearly twenty years, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He specialized in the political economy of the developing countries with a special focus on the Middle East. He was director of Princeton's Center of International Studies and editor of the academic journal, World Politics, from 1992 to 1998. Waterbury earned his PhD in public law and government at Columbia University in 1968. President Waterbury has published widely on the politics of the Middle East, the political economy of public enterprise, and on the development of international river basins. Among his publications, "The Nile Basin: National Determinants of Collective Action" published by Yale University Press in 2002. Waterbury steps down as a president at the end of the 2007-2008 Academic Year.
Washington Post Middle East Correspondent, award-winning author, and 2007-08 “Writer-in-Residence Fellow” at IFI-AUB "Loss and nostalgia in the Middle East: A foreign correspondent's reflections on conflict and change in the region" Anthony Shadid is the first “Writer- in-residence” fellow at AUB-IFI for the Academic Year 2007-08. Shadid has had a distinguished career with the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the Associated Press, serving in Washington, Cairo, Los Angeles, Baghdad, and Beirut. He won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his international reporting that year, primarily from Iraq. His recent book, "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War", has also been widely acclaimed. Shadid took a year off from his duties as Beirut-based Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post newspaper, and used his stay at AUB to research and write a book on his family’s migration from Lebanon to Oklahoma. An American of Lebanese descent, he is a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.
From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. In this capacity, he served as a principal advisor to the President and the National Security Advisor at the White House on the Middle East peace process. Mr. Malley joined the National Security Council staff in August 1994 as Director for Democracy. He helped coordinate U.S. refugee policy and efforts to promote democracy and human rights abroad. Robert Malley has been Director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East and North Africa Program since January 2002. Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He also played a leading role in U.S. policy toward Cuba. Mr. Malley is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of "The Call from Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution and the Turn to Islam" and, with Hussein Agha, of "Camp David:The Tragedy of Errors ," "The Last Negotiation", "Three Men in a Boat" and "Hamas -The Perils of Power".
Gareth Evans has been since January 2000 President of the Brussels based International Crisis Group, the independent global NGO working with some 140 full-time staff on five continents to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. He came to Crisis Group after 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his role in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, helping conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and helping initiate new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture. He has written or edited nine books-most recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, for publication September 2008- and has published over 90 journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform.
Recently appointed Senior Fellow and Senior Program Director for the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, William C. Vocke Jr., is responsible for developing new partnerships and educational materials for the Carnegie Ethics Studio project. The vision of the Ethics Studio is "a global, interactive network sharing content and discourse" on international policy issues. His last position was Professor at Taiwan's top international affairs program at National Cheng Chi University where he finished his sixth semester. Dr. Vocke's Ph.D. is from the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of South Carolina under Charles Kegley, and he emphasizes public diplomacy and the domestic sources of US foreign policy. (AUB will be the site of one of the studios Carnegie Council is setting up).
Meeting with AUB students and Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on US foreign policies to the Middle East and fast food. AUB will be the site of one of the studios Carnegie Council is setting up.
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