Termine und Veranstaltungen

As part of the "European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution", Professor Udo Steinbach will give a lecture on the topic:

"Global and European Challenges of the Middle East Conflict."

The accords concluded 2020 between a couple of Arab states and Israel are indicative for the beginning of political changes in the Middle East at large. Arab rulers no longer see the conflict from the perspective of Arab nationalism. Ambitious to become economically global players, the ongoing conflict is considered a liability, while economic, technological, and scientific cooperation with Israel has become increasingly attractive.

The lecture will explore the chances and dilemmas for the actors involved. In addition, the developments on the stage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be located within the framework of regional as well as international developments which recently have been dramatically accentuated by the rapprochement between Iran and Saudi-Arabia brought about through mediation of China.

Bio: Prof. Dr. Udo Steinbach is co-founder and shareholder of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform. Prof. Steinbach heads the MENA Study Centre at the Maecenata Foundation.

Since 1971, Dr. Udo Steinbach has worked scientifically with the contemporary Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. He has also advised Parliament and the government on current political, economic, cultural, and religious issues in these regions. In the years of his work as Director of the German Orient Institute in Hamburg (1976-2007) he was actively involved in political dialogue projects of the German Federal Government, including the Euro-Arab Dialogue and the Human Rights Dialogue with political, academic, and religious representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was also a founding member of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO). Since 1991 he has been honorary professor at the University of Hamburg.

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