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.

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Accord Issue 24: Lebanon

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