FROM DIVISION TO UNITY: HOW TO SHARE POWER IN THE AND BEYOND MARCH 4, 2019 | PHOENICIA HOTEL (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 , Syria, and Lebanon, Crisis Group

Chair: Liz Sly, Beirut Bureau Chief,

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