Public Policy Research Activities and Programs - Programs

Education for Social Cohesion in Lebanon – A three-day international conference at AUB

The Research and Policy Forum on Youth in the Arab World (IFI) will be hosting the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) from 15 - 17 October, 2009, at AUB for its annual international conference focusing on the role of education and fostering social cohesion in Lebanon.

Studying Youth in the Arab World  – A two-day inaugural seminar

The Research and Policy Forum on Youth in the Arab World (IFI) and the Goethe Institute (Lebanon) joined forces to bring regional and international youth sector researchers together on 13-14 January 2009, inaugurating this annual seminar on Studying Youth in the Arab World.

With a long-standing tradition of social research to draw on, IFI and Goethe brought together individuals and institutions in the fields of policy-making, civil society, the corporate world and scholarship to assess and propose research priorities and to explore how research can influence policy