Ali Ahmida to serve as panelist at International Peace Institute’s New York Seminar

51Æ·²èPolitical Science Professor and Chair Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D. has accepted an invitation from the United Nation’s International Institute of Peace (IPI) to sit on an expert panel at its 2012 New York Seminar, which will take place April 18 to 20 at The Thayer Hotel at West Point Military Academy in New York.  The seminar is titled ‘Managing Transitions in the Arab World,’ and Ahmida’s panel, which will be held on Thursday, April 19th,  will address how the international community can best foster the emerging political and societal transformations currently taking place in Libya.

IPI’s annual New York Seminars seek to foster the professional development and expertise of representatives of Member States to the United Nations, the staff of its Secretariat and UN agencies, funds, and programs on issues related to international peace and security.  While Ahmida’s panel will focus specifically on the changes occurring in Libya, the 2012 seminar, as a whole, will focus more broadly on the transitions currently underway throughout the Middle East and North Africa, aiming to provide in-depth analysis of these changes, compare the changes with other regional transitions, and advise on the best approaches to dealing with such evolutions once they have occurred.

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