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Analyzing, Teaching and Influencing Public Policy: Sharing National Lessons and Exploring New Horizons?
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs held a round-table discussion entitled: "Analyzing, Teaching and Influencing public policy: sharing national lessons and exploring new horizons? with Dr. Mitchel Wallerstein, Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, and Dr. Iman Nuwayhid, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AUB.
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Ministry of Environment (Lebanon) collaborates with the Issam Fares Institute
The Lebanese government, through its Ministry of Environment, approached IFI for the first time to study the cost of Climate Change adaptation and mitigation on the Energy and Agriculture sectors in Lebanon. The National Economic, Environment, and Development Study (NEEDS) for Climate Change is an inter-disciplinary project, which brought in four AUB faculty members to prepare the study - Dr. Leila Dagher and Dr. Marcus Marktanner (FAS), Dr. Nadim Farajalla (FAFS) and Dr. Philip Zgheib (OSB).
The NEEDS Lebanon Country Brief was submitted and presented by IFI Research Faculty Advisor Dr. Nadim Farajalla at the Conference of Parties (COP15) Copenhagen summit, December 2009.
Lebanon is one of 10 countries selected by UNFCCC to prepare and submit this NEEDS report for the Copenhagen conference.
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Development without Democracy in the Arab World
Dr Samir Makdisi, Distinguished Senior Public Policy Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute, AUB, publishes in the Institute of Financial Economics Lecture and Working Paper Series No.2, 2009.
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Country-specific Studies on Climate Change and the Policy-making Process in the Levant
The Issam Fares Institute commissioned 5 country/region-specific papers on the various issues and stakeholders involved in climate change for the Levant countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria) and North Africa.
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Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund
The Nadim Makdisi Memorial Fund at AUB will honor the life and legacy of the late Nadim Makdisi by sponsoring an annual lecture and funding research in the field of media and communications.
Richard Makdisi, the son of Nadim, generously endowed the fund with a donation of $200,000. The memorial fund and its activities are housed at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at AUB.
Every year IFI will organize an annual Nadim Makdisi Memorial Lecture by a distinguished Arab or international personality in the field of mass media and communications and their intersection with public policy. The first lecture will be held in the fall semester of the 2009-10 academic year.
The fund will also offer several fellowships to AUB graduate students to undertake research related to journalism and communications, the fields that defined Nadim Makdisi's professional life.
IISD report on Climate Change and Security in the Middle East now available online
IFI hosted the Danish Embassy Lebanon and IndyACT at AUB to launch a new report published by Canadian reaserch insititute IISD titled, "Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: climate change and the risk of violent conflict in the Middle East"
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Proceedings on the Regional Workshop on 'Arab World Policy for Post-2012 Negotiations'
IFI, IndyAct and the Heinrich Boll Foundation published the proceedings of this 2-day regional Climate Change workshop held at AUB 14/15 October 2008.
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