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SUMMARY:Israel and Palestine: Future Directions in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Webinar \n\nJanuary 13th\, 2021 \n1200 Ottawa / 1700 UK / 1800 Geneva / 1900 Ramallah \n  \nDownload Event Pdf\n  \nSpeakers \n\nDr Alaa Tartir\, \nInès Abdel Razek\, \nDr Shir Hever and \nDr Jeremy Wildeman \n  \n  \nModerator \n\nDr Ruby Dagher \n  \n  \nTicket options: Free or $10.00 (Suggested)\nOnline Registration \n \n  \nSeminar Theme\n  \n  \nThe resource rich Middle East and North Africa region is at a nadir following two tumultuous decades of localised crises\, regional power struggles and interventions from abroad. Multiple shattered states and societies\, from Libya to Syria\, Yemen and Iraq\, lie in their wake. Yet\, one contested region\, Israel and Palestine\, remains central to regional peace and stability. It remains in as regressive and dangerous a state as ever\, too. \n  \n  \nThis online seminar will explore the regional outlook of Israel\, Palestine and the broader Middle East. It takes into consideration four years of the Trump administration siding firmly with the Netanyahu government in Israel\, including support for de jure annexation of further Palestinian land. \n  \n  \nIt also offers insight onto peace agreements signed between Israel and Arab states\, for the first time since 1994; the further deterioration of Palestinian well-being\, which includes de facto West Bank land annexations and dystopian life conditions in Gaza; and Canada’s own current policy\, which such as includes renewing funding to Palestinian refugees and voting at the UN for the Palestinian right to self-determination while simultaneously voting against nearly every other Palestinian resolution and facilitating the sale of Israeli settlement goods in Canada. This forms the backdrop of this panel. \n  \n  \nOur panel of regional specialists will provide their analysis through an update on the politics of the Middle East (Dr Alaa Tartir)\, political trends and life in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Inès Abdel Razek)\, political currents in Israel (Dr Shir Hever)\, and Canada’s relationship with the Palestinians and Middle East Peace Process (Dr Jeremy Wildeman). \n  \n  \n  \nBios\n  \n  \n  \nDr. Alaa Tartir is a Researcher and Academic Coordinator at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva\, a Global Fellow at The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)\, and Program and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka\, the Palestinian Policy Network. Tartir is the co-editor of Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2019)\, and the co-editor of Political Economy of Palestine: Critical\, Interdisciplinary\, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2021). Tartir’s publications can be accessed at www.alaatartir.com\, and he tweets at @alaatartir \n  \n  \nInès Abdel Razek is the Advocacy Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy\, A Palestinian independent organization based in Ramallah. Prior to joining the PIPD in 2019\, Inès has held advisory positions to high-level diplomats and officials of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona\, the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi and the Palestinian Prime Minister’s Office in Ramallah\, mainly working on multilateral governance and development cooperation policies. Inès is also a policy member at the think-tank Al-Shabaka and an Advisory board member of the social enterprise BuildPalestine. Inès holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Sciences-Po\, Paris. Twitter: @InesAbdelrazek \n  \n  \nDr. Shir Hever is an independent economic researcher and journalist. He is currently living in Germany\, and is a graduate of the Freie Universität in Berlin. His second book: Privatization of Security in Israel\, was published by Pluto Press in 2017. \n  \n  \nDr Jeremy Wildeman is a research analyst of global and Middle East politics\, human security and “development” aid. His specialisations include the impact of foreign aid/intervention on the Palestinians\, and Canada’s relationship with the Middle East. Since 2010\, he has explored in-depth (at the universities of Exeter\, Bath and Ottawa) the humanitarian\, development\, security and peacebuilding nexus of foreign aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. These resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications and policy analysis. He has published several major works on Canada’s relationship with the Palestinians\, too. His scholarly work is supported by extensive field experience delivering humanitarian and development aid in the city of Nablus (from 2002 to 11)\, and afterward in multiple regions in crisis in the Middle East and Balkans. He is also a Fellow with HRREC-CREDP at the University of Ottawa and his Twitter is @jeremywildeman \n  \n  \nDr. Ruby Dagher has studied and taught at both Carleton and Ottawa Universities and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies\, University of Ottawa. Ms. Dagher has worked and consulted with the Canadian International Development Agency\, the Caribbean Development Bank\, the University of Central Asia\, and Global Affairs Canada. She has a doctorate in Public Policy and Administration Development from Carleton University and is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships.  She is trilingual in English\, French and Arabic. \n  \n  \nMs. Dagher has written widely in books\, journals and newspapers\, has presented in many media broadcasts and has organized and moderated many conferences\, workshops and panels. Among her academic and personal interests are international development and its many dimensions\, Middle East politics\, conflict\, social movements and power relations. \n  \n  \n_____________________________________________________________________________ \n  \nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation. \n  \nPhoto Credits Wikimedia: Flag of Palestine.svg \, Flag-of-Israel(boxed).png
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SUMMARY:Pandemic Relief\, Recovery\, and Reshaping the World Economy
DESCRIPTION:Webinar\nJanuary 13th\, 2021\n9:00-10:15 am Ottawa time; 2:00-3:15 pm UK time; 10:00-11:15 pm Malaysia time\nOnline Registration\n Ticket options:\nFree\n$10.00 – Suggested per webinar\nSpeakers \nJomo Kwame Sundaram\nSir Richard Jolly\nModerator\nRoy Culpeper\nSeminar Theme\nOur webinar will address the interrelated issues of short-term pandemic relief\, medium-term  recovery and\, in the long term\, reshaping the world economy. There are choices at every stage\, with implications for distributional equity among and within countries. There can be no return to the “old normal”–the world has changed\, and the climate crisis has intensified. Are there fundamental opportunities to reshape policy at the national level? And can the international rules of the game\, affecting trade\, investment and finance\, be reshaped to build a more equitable and sustainable world?\n  \n Bios\n Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Senior Adviser at the Khazanah Research Institute. He was a member of the Economic Action Council\, chaired by the seventh Malaysian Prime Minister (2018-20)\, and the 5-member Council of Eminent Persons appointed by him\, Professor at the University of Malaya (1986-2004)\, Founder-Chair of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)\, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development (2005-2012)\, Research Coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development (2006-2012)\, and Assistant Director General for Economic and Social Development\, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (2012-2015). He received the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.\n\nSir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the IDS (Institute of Development Studies) at the University of Sussex. Richard Jolly was Deputy Executive Director(Programmes)in UNICEF 1982-95 and co-author of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report from 1996-2000. In 2001\, he was knighted by the Queen for services to the UN and International Development.\n\nHe co-directed the UN Intellectual History Project with Louis Emmerij and Tom Weiss\, the summary volume of which is UN Ideas That Changed The World (details on www.unhistory.org.He has written or co- written many articles and books on development\, the latest of which is UNICEF: Global Governance That Works\, to be published by Routledge in May 2014.\n \n  \n\nIf you would like to contribute to support our ongoing activities any contribution $20.00 or over will be provided with a charitable tax receipt.  Thank you for your support and participation.
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