Michael Kerr is Professor of Conflict Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies at King’s College London. A native of Belfast, he studied politics at Essex University and the London School of Economics where he was Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2007-08.
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Joseph Bahout is Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at Sciences Po, Paris, and a researcher at Académie Diplomatique Internationale.
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Marie-Joëlle Zahar is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Research Network on Peace Operations at the Université de Montréal. In 2017, she served as Senior Mediation Expert with the Office of the UN Special Envoy on Syria.
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Sami Atallah is Executive Director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies in Beirut.
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Sami Atallah 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.
Aïda Kanafani-Zahar is an anthropologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the Collège de France, Paris. Her research on contemporary Lebanon includes inter-religious dialogue, institutional secularisation, memories of the civil war, and reconciliation processes.
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Ziad Majed is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the American University of Paris. He is also Coordinator of the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy.
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Samir Frangieh is a member of the General Secretariat of 14 March Alliance and a former Lebanese MP.
Samir Frangieh 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.
Ali Fayyad is a Hezbollah MP and a prominent figure associated with the 8 March Alliance.
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Karam Karam is Head of Research at the Common Space Initiative for Shared Knowledge and Consensus Building. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Aix en Provence. Before this, he was Program Director at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies focusing on political development and social transformation in Lebanon and the Arab World. In this role he worked with the UNDP, the Arab Reform Initiative and the Euro Mediterranean Study Commission. He is also a founding member of both the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections and the Legal Agenda.
Nawaf Kabbara is President of the National Association for the Rights of Disabled People in Lebanon, and Professor of Political Science at Balamand University.
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