Aziz Al-Azmeh in conversation with Tarek Mitri and Ghassan Salamé
SPOILS OF CIVIL WAR - BRINGING THE ARAB WORLD BACK IN?
“After Conflict? Spoils of war and the emergent international disorder in the Arab World” is the title of an international expert meeting convened by the Striking from the Margins research project of the Central European University with the support of the Carnegie Corporation New York.
The meeting opens with a public keynote panel at Bruno Kreisky Forum, joining two eminent intellectuals and actors in the international arena - Tarek Mitri and Ghassan Salamé - to discuss current challenges in the Arab world. Before them are issues of political disarticulation, state capture, civil wars and proxy wars in the region, and their international extensions, including the erosion of international norms and frameworks, in what is emerging as global disorder and the conditions of a new cold war with variable geographies.
Notes of Welcome
Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo, Secretary General, Bruno Kreisky Forum
Hillary Wiesner, Program Director, Arab Region Research and Scholarship, Carnegie Corporation, New York
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Professor, Central European University; Co-Founding Director, SFM project, Vienna
Speakers
Tarek Mitri, President, St. George University, Beirut
Former Director, Issam Fares Center for Public Policy and International Affairs (American University of Beirut); Former UN Secretary-General Representative to Libya; former Minister of Information, former Minister of the Environment, and former Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lebanon; former Coordinator for Interreligious Relations and Dialogue at the World Council of Churches.
Ghassan Salamé, Trustee of the International Crisis Group, Paris
Former UN Secretary-General Special Representative to Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission for Libya; former Founding Dean of the Paris School of Public Affairs; former Minister of Culture, Lebanon.
Moderator
Aziz Al-Azmeh, University Professor emeritus, Central European University; Co-Founding Director, SFM, Vienna
In Cooperation with the Central European University, Vienna, and the Carnegie Corporation, New York
Recorded at the Bruno Kreisky Forum on March 6, 2024
Technical production: Milan Loewy