In her paper, Lior highlights the important contributions that female negotiators can make to the stalled Israeli-Arab peace process. She is a Parliamentary Assistant and Political Advisor to MK Ilan Gilon with Meretz and a graduate of the Peres Center for Peace "Young Political Leaders" programme.

Mohammad examines how successful renewable energy projects can encourage ‘bottom-up’ peace initiatives. He was the Cultural Activities Coordinator at the  American Center of Oriental Research in Amman and holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the University of Jordan.

To listen to the talk, please ICSR was delighted to host Mitchell Silber, Director of Intelligence Analysis, New York City Police Department Intelligence Division, for the launch of his latest book The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots against the West (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, 2011).

To listen to the talk, please click here.

 Yesterday ICSR held its first panel discussion on the English Defence League and the New Far Right. Chaired by ICSR Co-Director, Professor Peter Neumann, both its origins and its future was discussed.

Speakers:
    * Jamie Bartlett, Head of the Violence and Extremism Programme, Demos and author of 'Inside the EDL' (2011)
    * Matthew Collins, Hope Not Hate and author of Hate: My Life in the British Far Right (2011)
    * Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow at ICSR and author of 'Blood and Honour: Britain's Far-Right Militants' (2010).

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The conference took place in a year of unprecedented transformations in the Middle East. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are changing the region’s political map. Even Israel has witnessed a wave of popular protests.

The aim of this year’s conference was to try and make sense of what has happened in the Middle East in 2011, and to see what will be next. Issues looked at included what role would diasporas play in the ongoing struggles for peace and democracy and assessing how influential traditional media has been and how new media has been effecting change? Activists told us what it felt like to be on the ground? While key policymakers and journalists predicted how the New M]]>http://www.icsr.info/conference/third--annual-atkin-conference-the-new-generation-in-the-middle-east-2011-11-24 00:00:00Lt Col Dougie Graham and Ryan Evans discussed how counterinsurgency theory worked in practice in Central Helmand Province. Lt Col Graham analysed his approach as a Battlegroup Commander and Commanding Officer of the Royal Highland Fusiliers grappling with a complex insurgency around Lashkar Gah, the district capital. He explained that any understanding of what is happening in Helmand has to be seen in the context of how operations evolved from 2006 to 2010. He particularly emphasised the centrality of the Afghan National Security Forces and, in particular, the Afghan National Police in ensuring future stability in Afghanistan. Evans provided the perspective of a Human Terrain Team member working with Task Force Helmand. He explained how land tenure disputes, enduring local factional conflicts, and the narcotics industry drive violence in what is a very l]]>http://www.icsr.info/seminar/counter-insurgency-in-helmand-and-beyond