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(Community Event) What’s next for a volatile region and Israel’s conflicts with its neighbours?
19 December 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Featuring Dr. Gil Murciano, CEO of NIFC project partner the Mitvim Institute
Presented by Canadian Friends of Peace Now
Co-presented by New Israel Fund of Canada
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Much is in flux in the Middle East these days. After a year of escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, the two parties have signed a truce, but can the ceasefire hold for long? Meanwhile, cataclysmic changes have occurred in Syria with the overthrow of the Assad regime by Islamist rebels. There’s no end in sight for the war in Gaza. West Bank tensions are extremely high. And the incoming Trump regime brings a whole new level of uncertainty to the region. How will these and other developments affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Will Israel’s Gaza campaign turn into a full-scale occupation? Will Israel attempt to formally annex the West Bank? Are there opportunities for advancing a more peaceful outcome for Israelis and Palestinians and re-stabilizing the region? Gil Murciano will answer all these questions and more.
Speaker:
Dr. Gil Murciano is the CEO of Mitvim. Gil served as an expert on Israeli foreign and security policy at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a Berlin-based think-tank, which advises the German and European foreign policy community. In collaboration with local partners, he founded and developed the Techne Initiative, which aims to turn members of the Middle Eastern diaspora in Europe into foreign policy advisers. Gil is a member of the adjunct Faculty of the Hertie School of Governance Berlin, where he serves as a lecturer on the International Politics of the Middle East. He holds a PhD in International Relations from Freie Universität Berlin and served as Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center/Yale University. His dissertation focuses on the role of honor in peace negotiations in the Middle East. Gil has also served as a senior foreign policy analyst at the Tel Aviv-based Reut Institute for Strategic Thinking (currently known as the Reut Group). In addition, he is a member of the Israeli-Arab forum of the London-based Atkin Foundation.