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Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) aims to harness the policy-related research of AUB's internationally respected faculty in order to achieve several goals: to raise the quality of public policy-related debate and decision-making in the Arab World and abroad, to enhance the Arab World's input into international affairs, and to enrich the quality of interaction among scholars, officials and civil society actors in the Middle East and abroad.
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News |
- National Public Radio (NPR) interviews IFI Director Rami Khouri on Talk of the Nation, "Can Arab League Monitors Quell Violence In Syria?". Read the interview summary and transcript.
- IFI Associate Director Dr Karim Makdisi visited the United Nations as an expert to the Lebanese delegation, where he spent time meeting with Ambassador Salam and his team and attended United Nations Security Council (UNSC) deliberations, as Lebanon was presiding over the UNSC during September 2011.
- Rami G. Khouri is nominated Peace Lecturer, and will deliver this year's Salem Peace Lecture at Willamette University in October, 2011. IFI's director will be the 22nd speaker in the series, alongside Daniel Ellsberg, Philip Berrigan, Helen Caldicott and many others.
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Events |
- February 14, 2012
Co-sponsored with the Interfaculty Graduate Environmental Sciences Program, and the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS), in collaboration with the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN), "Public Policies and Institutional Framework for Food and Nutrition Sovereignty and Security: The Brazilian Experience", a lecture with Renato S. Maluf, Professor at the Federal Rural University, Rio de Janeiro, and President of the National Council of Food and Nutrition Security, Brazil.
- January 16, 2012
Co-sponsored with AUB's Office of the Provost and UN-ESCWA, "Reform & Transitions to Democracy: Global Legacies", a panel discussion with Michelle Bachelet, Former President of Chile and Executive Director of UN Women, Nickolay Mladenov, Bulgarian Foreign Minister, and Asma Jehangir, Former Chairman of the Human Rights Commission and current President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Pakistan.
- January 16, 2012
Co-sponsored with AUB's Office of the Provost and UN-ESCWA,
a disucssion with Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Presidential Candidate for the Arab Republic of Egypt and Secretary-General of the Arab Medical Union.
Please note: This event is in Arabic only. Thank you.
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