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SUMMARY:SYRIA IS A CATASTROPHE. NOW WHAT? - Right Honourable Andrew Mitche
 ll\, MP
DTSTART:20181115T174500Z
DTEND:20181115T190000Z
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CONTACT:26584
DESCRIPTION:The Resilience and Sustainable Development Programme (RSDP) at
  the University of Cambridge presents a public lecture and panel discussio
 n on how we can start to explore the systematic rebuilding of Syria.\n\nTh
 e event will be chaired by the Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell\, MP and f
 eatures H.E Ambassador Rami Mortada of Lebanon\; the BBC's Middle East Edi
 tor\, Jeremy Bowen\; Dr David Nott\, OBE\, the founder of the David Nott F
 oundation and Dr. Roxane Farmanfarmaian\, a founding member of Cambridge C
 entre for the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa 
 (CIRMENA)\, of the University of Cambridge.\n\nDiscussants will debate and
  be challenged on the roles of the various stakeholders as well as their i
 deas about the resilience and sustainable development of Syria and the fut
 ure of the people of Syria.\n\n"Register your free place on Eventbrite":ht
 tps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/syria-is-a-catastrophe-now-what-tickets-51409
 724871\n\n*Speakers:*\n\n*H.E. Ambassador Rami Mortada\, Lebanon:*\nAmbass
 ador of Lebanon to the UK\, accredited since December 2017. He opened the 
 Lebanese Embassy in Damascus\, Syria\, after the inauguration of diplomati
 c relations. Ambassador Mortada served as the Counsellor/Chargé d’Affai
 res in Syria. He is a member of the Lebanese delegation to several Euro-Me
 d ministerial meetings and EU-Arab conferences. Trained as a lawyer\, Mr M
 ortada joined the Foreign Service in 1993. He is active in multilateral an
 d bilateral negotiations on building sustainable development and peace for
  the Middle East.\n\n*Jeremy Bowen\, BBC Middle East Editor*\nMr Bowen is 
 a Welsh journalist and television presenter. He was the BBC's Middle East 
 correspondent based in Jerusalem between 1995 and 2000\, and has been its 
 Middle East Editor since 2005. As an expert on the region\, Mr Bowen has i
 nterviewed political leaders such as the late Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Mr
  Bowen was one of the few journalists inside Syria reporting on the civil 
 war. In February 2015\, he spoke with President Bashar al-Assad about the 
 ongoing Syrian conflict during an exclusive BBC interview. His book\, The 
 Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime\, is well-regarded 
 as a key source.\n\n*Dr David Nott OBE FRCS\, Founder of the David Nott Fo
 undation*\nDr Nott is a Consultant Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hosp
 ital. Along his medical practice\, for the past twenty-three years David h
 as taken unpaid leave each year to work for the aid agencies Médecins San
 s Frontières\, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria Rel
 ief. He has provided surgical treatment to the victims of conflict and cat
 astrophe in Bosnia\, Afghanistan\, Sierra Leone\, Liberia\, Ivory Coast\, 
 Chad\, Darfur\, Yemen\, the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Haiti\, Iraq\, 
 Pakistan\, Libya\, Syria\, Central African Republic\, Gaza and Nepal. He i
 s active in fundraising for charitable causes and in teaching advanced sur
 gical skills to local medics and surgeons when he is abroad. In London\, h
 e teaches the Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills (DSTS) and Surgical Traini
 ng for the Austere Environment (STAE) courses at the Royal College of Surg
 eons.\n\n\n*Dr. Roxane Farmanfarmaian\, University of Cambridge*\nRoxane F
 armanfarmaian is the Academic Director\, International Relations\, at the 
 Institute of Continuing Education. Her research focuses on the inter-relat
 ionship between local Middle East interests and global (Western) power\, u
 sing a range of theoretical and multi-disciplinary approaches. Drawing fro
 m her years as a professional journalist\, she is particularly interested 
 in the use of language and communication as they relate to a narrative\, p
 olitical identity\, security and conflict. She is a founding member of the
  Centre for the International Relations of the Middle East and North Afric
 a (CIRMENA)\, which is affiliated to POLIS\, the Department of Politics an
 d International Studies at the University of Cambridge From 2002-2005\, sh
 e was Editor of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA).\n\n*
 Chair:\nThe Right Honourable Andrew Mitchell\, MP*\nAndrew Mitchell has be
 en the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He served as 
 the Minister for Social Security\, Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party
  (1992-93)\, the Army (Royal Tank Regiment) and was a United Nations Peace
 keeper in Cyprus before joining Lazard\, the international investment bank
 . In November 2003 he was appointed as Shadow Minister for Economic Affair
 s and from September 2004 he was the Shadow Minister for Police. Following
  the General Election in May 2005\, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of S
 tate for International Development. He then served as the Secretary of Sta
 te for International Development from May 2010 - September 2012 and Govern
 ment Chief Whip from September – October 2012. Andrew was elected as Pre
 sident of the Cambridge Union in 1978 while he was a student at Cambridge.
  He has returned to Cambridge as the Senior Fellow of the Resilience and S
 ustainable Development Programme (RSDP) to lead this distinguished lecture
  series\, the Sinews of Sustainable Development.\n\nFor any questions or c
 omments email: rsdp-admin@cam.ac.uk\n
LOCATION:Talk: The Webb Library\, Jesus College\, Cambridge University
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