Events

The Word Humanitarian Summit will be held in Istanbul on May 23rd and 24th. Local civil society in Lebanon has been engaged in the preparation process for the past 2 years. One month ago, Lebanon Support and Amel published a call for papers on glocalization of humanitarian action, to produce evidence on Lebanese innovative practices in relation with humanitarian action, availableon this link. Moreover and recently, an open letter was drafted in relation with key concerns which were raised during the consultation and publication processes. This letter is now open for signature and availableon...

The Building a Better Response (BBR) project has launched a series of integrated learning workshops to strengthen NGO capacity on the international humanitarian architecture. These 3-day workshops for NGO staff will build on the BBR e-learning course (www.BuildingABetterResponse.org) to improve understanding of the international coordination system and help participants identify where they can take action and engage directly within the system.   The next Arabic workshop is scheduled to take place in Beirut, Lebanon, May 16-18, 2016.   If you are interested in attending this Arabic  workshops...

International Alert and Lebanon Support have the pleasure to invite you to a roundtable discussion on the local security responses to the Syrian refugee crisis. The roundtable aims to stimulate discussion on the preliminary findings of Lebanon Support’s research on local security dynamics in three locations in Lebanon. It furthers aims to prompt a reflection on approaches to ensuring security at the local level. To stimulate the discussion, speakers from Jordan’s Syrian Refugee Affairs Directorate, Siren Associates and AJEM will share their experiences from initiatives supporting and...

The conference will be in English and Arabic, with simultaneous translation available May 12 - Day One:Session One 12:00 - 2:00Russia and the Arab World Alexander Zasypkin, Ambassador of Russia to Lebanon, IntroductionNikolay Kozhanov, Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center,“The Russian -Arab Relations Today”Talal Nizameddin, Dean of Student Affairs at AUB, “The Making of Russia’sForeign Policy Today”   May 13 - Day Two:Session Two 10:00 - 12:00Religion, Nationalism, and Geopolitics Antoine Courban, Professor at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut,“On Religion and Nationalism in...

Please follow this link for more info: http://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Pages/msf_conference.aspx For Arabic: http://www.aub.edu.lb/ifi/Documents/events/2015-2016/20160504_msf/20160… A two-day conference marking 40-years Médecins Sans Frontières’s (MSF) work in conflict, co-organized with the American University of Beirut. This conference will critically examine some of the contemporary challenges to humanitarian action across different war geographies within and beyond the Middle East. The event will bring together researchers, academics, and practitioners working in and on the...