Duccio Bandini is currently Programme Manager for the Instrument for Stability with the EU Delegation in Beirut. He holds an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics, and has worked on crisis response, recovery and stabilisation issues in Colombia, Central America, Rwanda, and Lebanon, focusing in particular on peacebuilding, reconciliation and security sector reform issues.
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Timur Goksel is a former spokesperson and senior advisor to UNIFIL. He currently teaches in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut.
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Nizar Abdel-Kader is a retired General of the Lebanese Armed Forces and a Board member of the Lebanese Defense Journal. He is also a political analyst for the Ad-Diyar newspaper in Beirut and the author of, Iran and the Nuclear Bomb, Nation Without a Fence, and The Israeli Strategy to Destroy Lebanon.
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Oren Barak is a Senior Lecturer at the Departments of Political Science and International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the author of The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society (State University of New York Press, 2009).
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Ghassan El Ezzi is Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese University. He is the author of several books on Lebanon and international affairs, and contributes regularly to newspapers, radio and television.
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Suhail Natour is the Executive Manager of al-Hamaei Human Rights Center in Beirut.
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Suhail Natour is a contributor to our Accord publication series and not a staff member of Conciliation Resources. The views expressed in the publication are their own and do not reflect the position of Conciliation Resources. We cannot share contributors' contact details.
Nahla Chahal is a senior researcher specialising in the political sociology of the modern Middle East. She was Deputy Director of the Arab Reform Institute from 2005-2011, visiting professor at St-Esprit University in Lebanon, 2004-2005, and Professor at the Lebanese University, 1985-1996. She has also been a columnist for Al-Hayat newspaper since 1999. She has written numerous articles and books in both Arabic and French.
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Sari Hanafi is Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of several books and articles on the political sociology of the Palestinian diaspora and refugees, the sociology of migration, the politics of scientific research, and transitional justice.
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Bernard Rougier is a specialist in Middle Eastern Studies. He has been Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clermont-Ferrand University, Sciences Po, Paris and Saint Joseph University, Beirut. He is the author of Everyday Jihad: the Rise of Radical Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon (Harvard University Press, 2007) and L’Oumma en fragments (Presses Universitaires de France, 2011). He is currently Director of the Cairo-based Centre d’Études et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales.
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