FROM DIVISION TO UNITY: HOW TO SHARE POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND BEYOND MARCH 4, 2019 | PHOENICIA HOTEL BEIRUT (SIDON HALL)
9:00 – 9:30 AM | Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:30 – 10:00 AM | Welcome Remarks
Mohanad Hage Ali, Director of Communications, Carnegie Middle East Center Achim Vogt, Director of Middle East Peace & Security Project, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
10:00 – 11:30 AM | THEORY MEETS PRAXIS: POWER-SHARING IN THE MENA REGION
Chris Halliday, Political Adviser to the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Marina Ottaway, Middle East Fellow, Wilson Center Heiko Wimmen, Project Director for Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, Crisis Group
Chair: Liz Sly, Beirut Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
11:30 – 12:00 PM | Coffee Break
12:00 – 1:30 PM | THE DAY AFTER: A CAUTIONARY TALE FROM THE REGION
Assaad Al-Achi, Executive Director, Baytna Syria Joseph Bahout, Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment’s Middle East Program Jamila Ali Raja, Director, Consult Yemen
Chair: Alia Ibrahim, Journalist and Co-Founder, Daraj
1:30 – 2:30 PM | Lunch Break at Mosaic Restaurant
2:30 – 4:00 PM | POWER-SHARING AND THE RESOURCE CURSE
Harith Hasan, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie Middle East Center Diana Kaissy, Executive Director, Lebanese Oil and Gas Initiative Zahra’ Langhi, Co-Founder and CEO of the Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace
Chair: Loulouwa Al Rachid, Co-Director of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States, Carnegie Middle East Center
4:00 – 5:00 PM | Networking Reception in Outer Foyer Area
FROM DIVISION TO UNITY: HOW TO SHARE POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND BEYOND MARCH 5, 2019 | PHOENICIA HOTEL BEIRUT (SIDON HALL)
9:00 – 9:30 AM | Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:30 – 11:00 AM | REFLECTIONS FROM BEYOND: AFGHANISTAN, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, AND SRI LANKA
Iavor Rangelov, Global Security Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science Gunnar Sørbø, Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute Marika Theros, Senior Researcher, Institute for State Effectiveness
Chair: Mohanad Hage Ali, Director of Communications, Carnegie Middle East Center
11:00 – 11:30 AM | Coffee Break
11:30 – 1:00 PM | FUEL TO THE FIRE: THE ROLE OF REGIONAL AND INT’L ACTORS
Galip Dalay, Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Doha Center Sebastian Sons, Senior Researcher, Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient and Associate Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations Adnan Tabatabai, CEO, Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient Carsten Wieland, Senior Adviser to the UN Special Envoy for Syria
Chair: Kim Ghattas, BBC Correspondent and Former Senior Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1:00 – 1:15 PM | Closing Remarks
Achim Vogt, Director of Middle East Peace & Security Project, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Maha Yahya, Director, Carnegie Middle East Center