On April 22, 2015, IPI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) office hosted Ambassador Mokhtar Lamani, a former UN representative in Syria, former Arab League official, and the former permanent observer of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at the UN, who discussed the origins and evolution of extremist organizations across the Middle East.At the event—attended by government officials, […]
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The inaugural meeting of IPI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Advisory Council was held on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015. Sixteen members of the diplomatic and business communities, religious leaders from among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, among others, as well as civil society members, were in attendance for the meeting. Advisory Council members and […]
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On February 18, 2015, IPI’s MENA office hosted a Inter-Religious Alliance meeting with religious leaders and clerics from five continents. Representing their respective religious communities, the participants made statements in support of a stronger and more sustainable inter-religious alliance.The leaders welcomed IPI’s initiative and pledged further cooperation to strengthen a joint call for peace in […]
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On September 10-11, 2014, the International Peace Institute launched its inaugural meeting at its Middle East Regional Office in Manama, Bahrain titled “Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future: The Middle East After 1914.”The meeting, part of a series of events convened by IPI in cooperation with the Salzburg Global Seminar, was sponsored by […]
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IPI-Middle East is one of two regional offices of the International Peace Institute (the other is in Vienna, Austria). The office was established in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain, to promote policy research on global peace and security within the Middle East region.IPI-Middle East will:• Focus on issues of the region that contribute to the […]
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