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1510			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 4: Pathways to Manage Non-Proliferation in the Middle East (4:30 PM - 5:45 PM ET)</h5>		</div>
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1514							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Western powers have failed to effectively manage the increasing threat of proliferation in the Middle East. While the international community is concerned with Iran’s nuclear program, Saudi Arabia has moved forward with developing its own nuclear program, and independent studies show that Israel has longed possessed dozens of nuclear warheads. The former is a member of the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), while the latter has refused to sign the international agreement. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Middle East policy, the Biden campaign had staunchly criticized the Trump administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), more commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal and it has begun re-engaging Iran on the nuclear dossier since assuming office in January 2021. However, serious obstacles remain for responsible actors in expanding non-proliferation efforts toward a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This panel will discuss how Western powers and multilateral institutions, such as the IAEA, can play a more effective role in managing non-proliferation efforts in the Middle East.  </span></p><p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Peggy Mason:</span> Canada’s former Ambassador to the UN for Disarmament</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mark Fitzpatrick:</span> Associate Fellow &amp; Former Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ali Vaez:</span> Iran Project Director, International Crisis Group</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Negar Mortazavi:</span> Journalist and Political Analyst, Host of Iran Podcast</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">David Albright:</span> Founder and President of the Institute for Science and International Security</span></p><p> </p><p><b>Closing (5:45 PM &#8211; 6:00 PM ET)</b></p>						</div>
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1528			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 3: Trade and Business Diplomacy in the Middle East (3:00 PM - 4:15 PM ET)</h5>		</div>
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1532							<p>What is the current economic landscape in the Middle East? While global foreign direct investment is expected to fall drastically in the post-COVID era, the World Bank reported a 5% contraction in the economic output of the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries in 2020 due to the pandemic. While oil prices are expected to rebound with normalization in demand, political instability, regional and geopolitical tensions, domestic corruption, and a volatile regulatory and legal environment all threaten economic recovery in the Middle East. What is the prospect for economic growth and development in the region post-pandemic, and how could MENA nations promote sustainable growth and regional trade moving forward?</p><p>At the same time, Middle Eastern diaspora communities have become financially successful and can help promote trade between North America and the region. In this respect, the diaspora can become vital intermediaries for advancing U.S. and Canada’s business interests abroad. Promoting business diplomacy can both benefit the MENA region and be an effective and positive way to advance engagement and achieve foreign policy goals of the North Atlantic.</p><p>This panel will investigate the trade and investment opportunities in the Middle East, discuss how facilitating economic engagement with the region can benefit Canadian and American national interests, and explore relevant policy prescriptions.</p><p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Hon. Sergio Marchi:</span> Canada’s Former Minister of International Trade</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Scott Jolliffe:</span> Chairperson, Canada Arab Business Council</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Esfandyar Batmanghelidj:</span> Founder and Publisher of Bourse &amp; Bazaar</span></p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nizar Ghanem:</span> Director of Research and Co-founder at Triangle</p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nicki Siamaki:</span> Researcher at Control Risks</p>						</div>
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1546			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 2: Arms Race and Terrorism in the Middle East (12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET)</h5>		</div>
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1550							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Middle East continues to grapple with violence and instability, particularly in Yemen, Syria and Iraq. Fueled by government incompetence and foreign interventions, terrorist insurgencies have imposed severe humanitarian and economic costs on the region. Meanwhile, regional actors have engaged in an unprecedented pursuit of arms accumulation. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have imported billions of both Western and Russian-made weapons and funded militant groups across the region, intending to contain their regional adversaries, particularly Iran. Tehran has also provided sophisticated weaponry to various militia groups across the region to strengthen its geopolitical position against Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the other hand, with international terrorist networks and intense regional rivalry in the Middle East, it is impractical to discu
1550ss peace and security without addressing terrorism and the arms race in the region.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This panel will primarily discuss the implications of the ongoing arms race in the region and the role of Western powers and multilateral organizations in facilitating trust-building security arrangements among regional stakeholders to limit the proliferation of arms across the Middle East.</span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Luciano Zaccara:</span> Assistant Professor, Qatar University</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dania Thafer:</span> Executive Director, Gulf International Forum</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kayhan Barzegar:</span> Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Science and Research Branch of Azad University</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Barbara Slavin:</span> Director of Iran Initiative, Atlantic Council</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sanam Shantyaei:</span> Senior Journalist at France24 &amp; host of Middle East Matters</span></p>						</div>
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1564			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 1: Future of Diplomacy and Engagement in the Middle East (10:30 AM-11:45 AM ET)</h5>		</div>
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1568							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The emerging regional order in West Asia will have wide-ranging implications for global security. The Biden administration has begun re-engaging Iran on the nuclear dossier, an initiative staunchly opposed by Israel, while also taking a harder line on Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen. Meanwhile, key regional actors, including Qatar, Iraq, and Oman, have engaged in backchannel efforts to bring Iran and Saudi Arabia to the negotiating table. From a broader geopolitical perspective, with the need to secure its energy imports, China is also expected to increase its footprint in the region and influence the mentioned challenges. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this evolving landscape, Western powers will be compelled to redefine their strategic priorities and adjust their policies with the new realities in the region. In this panel, we will discuss how the West, including the United States and its allies, can utilize multilateral diplomacy with its adversaries to prevent military escalation in the region. Most importantly, the panel will discuss if a multilateral security dialogue in the Persian Gulf region, proposed by some regional actors, can help reduce tensions among regional foes and produce sustainable peace and development for the region. </span></p><p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Abdullah Baabood:</span> Academic Researcher and Former Director of the Centre for Gulf Studies, Qatar University</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Trita Parsi:</span> Executive Vice-President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ebtesam Al-Ketbi:</span> President, Emirates Policy Centre​</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jon Allen:</span> Canada’s Former Ambassador to Israel</span></p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Elizabeth Hagedorn:</span> Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor</p>						</div>
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1582			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 4: Humanitarian Diplomacy: An Underused Foreign Policy Tool in the Middle East (4:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET)</h5>		</div>
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1586							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Military interventions, political and economic instabilities, and civil unrest in the Middle East have led to a global refugee crisis with an increasing wave of refugees and asylum seekers to Europe and Canada. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has, in myriad ways, exacerbated and contributed to the ongoing security threats and destabilization of the region.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While these challenges pose serious risks to Canadian security, Ottawa will also have the opportunity to limit such risks and prevent a spillover effect vis-à-vis effective humanitarian initiatives in the region. In this panel, we will primarily investigate Canada&#8217;s Middle East Strategy’s degree of success in providing humanitarian aid to the region. Secondly, the panel will discuss what programs and initiatives Canada can introduce to further build on the renewed strategy. and more specifically, how Canada can utilize its policy instruments to more effectively deal with the increasing influx of refugees from the Middle East. </span></p><p> </p><p><b>Panelists:</b></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Erica Di Ruggiero:</span> Director of Centre for Global Health, University of Toronto</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Reyhana Patel:</span> Head of Communications &amp;
1586 Government Relations, Islamic Relief Canada</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Amir Barmaki:</span> Former Head of UN OCHA in Iran</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Catherine Gribbin:</span> Senior Legal Advisor for International and Humanitarian Law, Canadian Red Cross</span></p>						</div>
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1600			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 3: A Review of Canada’s Middle East Engagement and Defense Strategy (3:00 PM - 4:15 PM ET) </h5>		</div>
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1604							<p>In 2016, Canada launched an ambitious five-year “Middle East Engagement Strategy” (2016-2021), committing to investing CA$3.5 billion over five years to help establish the necessary conditions for security and stability, alleviate human suffering and enable stabilization programs in the region. In the latest development, during the meeting of the Global Coalition against ISIS, Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau announced more than $43.6 million in Peace and Stabilization Operations Program funding for 11 projects in Syria and Iraq.</p><p>With Canada’s Middle East Engagement Strategy expiring this year, it is time to examine and evaluate this massive investment in the Middle East region in the past five years. More importantly, the panel will discuss a principled and strategic roadmap for the future of Canada’s short-term and long-term engagement in the Middle East.</p><p><b>Panelists:</b></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ferry de Kerckhove:</span> Canada’s Former Ambassador to Egypt</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dennis Horak:</span> Canada’s Former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia</span></p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chris Kilford:</span> Former Canadian Defence Attaché in Turkey, member of the national board of the Canadian International Council (CIC)</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">David Dewitt</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">:</span> University Professor Emeritus, York University</span></p>						</div>
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1618			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 2: The Great Power Competition in the Middle East (12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET)</h5>		</div>
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1622							<p>While the United States continues to pull back from certain regional conflicts, reflected by the Biden administration’s decision to halt American backing for Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen and the expected withdrawal from Afghanistan, US troops continue to be stationed across the region. Meanwhile, Russia and China have significantly maintained and even expanded their regional activities. On one hand, the Kremlin has maintained its military presence in Syria, and on the other hand, China has signed an unprecedented 25-year strategic agreement with Iran.</p><p>As the global power structure continues to shift, it is essential to analyze the future of the US regional presence under the Biden administration, explore the emerging global rivalry with Russia and China, and at last, investigate the implications of such competition for peace and security in the Middle East.</p><p><b>Panelists:</b></p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dmitri Trenin:</span> Director of Carnegie Moscow Center</p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Joost R. Hiltermann:</span> Director of MENA Programme, International Crisis Group</p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Roxane Farmanfarmaian:</span> Affiliated Lecturer in International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa, University of Cambridge</p><p>&#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Andrew A. Michta:</span> Dean of the College of International and Security Studies at Marshall Center</p><p>&#8211; <u>Kelley Vlahos:</u> Senior Advisor, Quincy Institute</p>						</div>
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1636			<h5 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default">Panel 1: A New Middle East Security Architecture in the Making (10:30 AM -11:45 AM ET)
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1641							<p>The security architecture of the Middle East has undergone rapid transformations in an exceptionally short period. Notable developments include the United States gradual withdrawal from the region, rapprochement between Israel and some GCC states through the Abraham Accords and the rise of Chinese and Russian regional engagement.</p><p>With these new trends in the Middle East, it is timely to investigate the security implications of the Biden administration’s Middle East policy. In this respect, we will discuss the Biden team’s new approach vis-à-vis Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. The panel will also discuss the role of other major powers, including China and Russia in shaping this new security environment in the region, and how the Biden administration will respond to these powers’ increasing regional presence.</p><p> </p><p><b>Panelists:</b></p><p>&#8211; <u>Sanam Vakil:</u> Deputy Director of MENA Programme at Chatham House</p><p>&#8211; <u>Denise Natali:</u> Acting Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies &amp; Director of the Center for Strategic Research, National Defense University</p><p>&#8211; <u>Hassan Ahmadian:</u> Professor of the Middle East and North Africa Studies, University of Tehran</p><p>&#8211; <u>Abdulaziz Sagar:</u> Chairman, Gulf Research Center</p><p>&#8211; <u>Andrew Parasiliti:</u> President, Al-Monitor</p>						</div>
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1792
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