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Issues of War and Peace in the Middle East: A Few Remarks

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  • Lakhdar Brahimi
| Winter 2007/2008

"The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict," an inaugural conference jointly hosted by The Dubai Initiative and the Dubai School of Government, was held on November 8, 2007 at the Kennedy School of Government.

The conference opened with remarks by Graham Allison, Nabil Ali Alyousuf, Tarik Yousef, and Vali Nasr. Lakhdar Brahimi, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, opened the conference with his keynote speech, "Issues of War and Peace in the Middle East: A Few Remarks."

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Watch the entire series of videos from "The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict":

  1. Issues of War and Peace in the Middle East: A Few Remarks
  2. The Shifting Balance of Power
  3. The Challenge of Islamism
  4. The Broader Middle East: From the Perspective of the Iraq Study Group, An Insider's View
  5. Managing Ongoing Conflicts
  6. Prospects for Economic Transformations
For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: Brahimi, Lakhdar. “Issues of War and Peace in the Middle East: A Few Remarks.” News, , Winter 2007/2008.

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