A seven-day online event by the Next Century Foundation. To be hosted from Monday, July 12th to Sunday, July 18th 2021.
We warmly invite you to attend the Next Century Foundation’s seven-day Healing the Nations online conference this summer from the 12th – 18th July 2021, Monday to Sunday.
The NCF conference will have sessions on Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Iran and Afghanistan, each featuring one or two guest principal speakers. Each conference session will be chaired by different experts and will last two hours. We anticipate a productive, open discussion.
More details on our agenda and guest speakers can be found on this link.
You will need to register in advance for this meeting and identify precisely the sessions you wish to attend, detailed below.
Agenda
Monday 12th July
Opening Session 11:30-13:30 BST
Chair: William Morris LL.D., Secretary General, The Next Century Foundation
Key Speakers:
Rev Larry Wright, Religious Affairs Advisor and Board Member, The Next Century Foundation
Daniel I. Gutierrez-Sandoval, Executive Director, The Policy Studies Organization, Washington
Michael Macy, former Member of the Senior Foreign Service, U.S. Department of State
Lebanon 15:00-17:00 BST
Chair: The Earl of St Andrews
Key Speakers:
Assaad Chafteri, formerly Christian Militia Intelligence, now with Fighters for Peace and Initiatives of Change
Jaafar al Ahmer, The Next Century Foundation; formerly with Al Hayat Newspaper
Ziad Chbib, former Governor of Beirut
Tuesday 13th July
Syria 11:30-13:30 BST
Key Speakers:
Dr Sami Khiyami, former Syrian ambassador to the UK
Siwar al Assad, the chairman of the Aramea Foundation
Maria Sapojnikova, Political Analyst, Moscow
Yemen 15:00-17:00 BST
Key Speaker:
Dr Abdul Galil Shaif, Chairman of Friends of South Yemen
Dr Ahmed Al Imad, representative of the Houthi government that controls the largest single part of Yemen
Wednesday 14th July
Iraq 11:30-13:30 BST
Chair: Dr. Neil Partrick, Senior Fellow at The Next Century Foundation
Key Speaker:
Sara Allawi, Deputy Secretary General of Iraqi National Party and leader of Al Watania Coalition
Dr Haithem Al Husseini, Independent politician in Baghdad and Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister
Afghanistan 15:00-17:00 BST
Chair: The Earl of St Andrews
Key Speaker:
HRH Prince Nadir Naim, Founder of the Kabul Institute for Peace
Dr Faiz Zaland, Kabul University
Thursday 15th July
Palestine 11:30-13:30 BST
Chair: Sir Vincent Fean, Chair of Trustees at the Balfour Project and former British Consul-General, Jerusalem
Key Speakers:
Adel Zanoun, AFP Correspondent in Gaza and Head of Gaza Media Centre
Mona al-Ghussein, Journalist and Palestinian Activist
Dr Neil Partrick, Senior Fellow at The Next Century Foundation
Israel 15:00-17:00 BST
Key Speakers:
Akiva Eldar, Freelance Journalist and Senior Columnist at Al-Monitor and Haaretz
Barak Greenapple, Political and Economic Advisor at Office of the Quartet, Jerusalem [ex officio]
Jonathan Paris, Senior Advisor, The Chertoff Group, and Senior Fellow, The Next Century Foundation
Friday 16th July
Bahrain 15:00-17:00 BST
Key Speaker:
Ali Alaswad, Senior member of Al Wefaq opposition group and former Member of Parliament
William Morris LL.D., Secretary General at The Next Century Foundation
Saturday 17th July
Iran 15:00-17:00 BST
Chair: The Earl of St Andrews
Key Speakers:
Dr Mehrdad Khonsari, Senior Consultant at the Iranian Centre for Policy Studies
Dan Meridor, Former Internal Security Minister, the State of Israel
Sunday 18th July
Cosmopolitanism and Closing Session 15:00-17:00 BST
Key Speakers:
Dr Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Law and Philosophy at NYU
William Morris LL.D., Secretary General of The Next Century Foundation
