Conferences

 
14
Nov
2006

Middle East in Transition. S.O.S.—Can the International Community Save our Region?

  • Organizer: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Tel Aviv Headed by Hermann Bünz and Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv Headed by Ron Pondak.
  • Location: Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv.
Participants: Dr. Andrä Gärber, Head of the Department for the Middle East and North Africa, at the FES in Berlin; Prof. Shlomo Ben Ami, former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Israel; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA, Jerusalem.
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
18
Feb
2006

EU and the Middle East

  • Organizer: Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES), Jerusalem.
  • Location: Ministry of Planning, Ramallah.
Participants: Mr. Faraj Zayoud, Internationaler Sekretär FATAH Kommission für internationale Angelegenheiten; Mr. Iyad Masrouji, Palestinian National Initiative (PNI- Al-Mubadara); Dr. Khaled Saifi, Palestinian National Initiative (PNI – Al-Mubadara); Ms. Hind Khouri Minister for Jerusalem Affairs; Mr. Qais Abdul-Karim, PLC Abgeordneter (Al-Badeel – Alternative); Dr. Saleh Abdel Jawad, Professor für Politikwissenschaften, Birzeit University; Mr. Simon Boaz, Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS); Dr. Fadl Naqib, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS); German Participants, Dr. Rolf Mützenich, Member of the German Parliament, Knut Dethlefsen, Resedent Represantative, FES Jerusalem, Elisabeth Petersen, Co-ordinator, FES Jerusalem, Katja Franke, Co-ordinator, FES Jerusalem
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
1
Feb
2005

Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

  • Organizer: The European Center for Conflict Prevention in cooperation with the Permanent Peace Movement and the Quaker Service.
  • Location: Beirut, Lebanon.
  • From: Feb. 1, 2005 - To: Feb. 2, 2005
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
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27
Jan
2005

EuroMeSCo Steering Committee Meeting

  • Organizer: EuroMeSCo Secretariat, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Location: Paris, France.
  • From: Jan. 27, 2005 - To: Jan. 28, 2007
Participants: Attended by Elise Aghazarian, Researcher, PASSIA
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
13
Jan
2005

A follow up to the International Court of Justice decision on the Separation Wall and the UN in the next phase

  • Organizer: Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International Affairs, Birzeit University.
  • Location: Grand Park Hotel, Ramallah.
Speakers: Dr. Nasser Al-Qudwa, Head of the Palestine Mission to the UN, New York
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
10
Jan
2005

Meeting of the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land with Bishops of Europe and North America to discuss the General Situation in Palestine and Israel

  • Organizer: The Latin Patriarchate, Jerusalem.
  • Location: Knights Palace Hotel, Old City, Jerusalem.
Speakers: Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Chairman of PASSIA
Mr. Stuart Schoffman, Associate editor of the Jerusalem Report
Participants: Archbishop Brendan O'Brien, Archbishop of St John, President, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Canada; Mgr William Fay, General Secretary, USCCB, USA; John Carr, Secretary, Dept of Social Development and World Peace, USCCB, USA; Fr Rob Waller, Holy Land Christian ecumenical Foundation, USA; Father Jose Antonio Martinez, Secretariat, Spanish Bishops' Conference; Andreas Weyringer, Secretary to Bishops Andreas Laun, Austrian Bishops' Conference, Austria; Mgr Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, Under-Secretary, Catholic Bishops' Conference of Italy, Italy; Hermann-Josef Grossimlinghaus, Executive Director of the Commission for International Church Affairs, German Bishops' Conference, Germany; Bishop William Kenney CP, Cathiloc Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden; Mgr Pierre Burcher, Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva & Freibourg, Swiss Bishops' Conference, Switzerland; Dr. David Ryall, Assistant General Secretary, Department of international Affairs, CBCEW, UK; Mgr Mario Paqette PH, general Secretary, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Canada; Bishop William Skylstad, President, USCCB, USA; Rateb Rabie KHS, President , Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, USA; Bishop Joan Enric Vives I Sicilia, Bishop of Urgell, Co-Prince of Andorra, Spain; Bishop Dr. Andreas Laun OSFS, Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austrian Bishops' Conference, Austria; Mgr Andre Lacrampe, Metropolitan Archbishop for Eastern France, Bishops' Conference of France, President, National Council for Solidarity, France; Dr. Ulrich Poner, Director, department for International Church Affairs and Migration, German Bishops' Conference, Germany; Dr. Rudolf Solzbacher, Director, Dept for International Church Affairs of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany; Mgr Peter Fleetwood, Council of European Bishops' Conferences, CCEE, Switzerland; Archbishop Patrich Kelly, Archbishop of Liverpool, Vice-President, CBCEW,UK; Dr Michael Whelan, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, UK; Tracey McClure, Journalist, Vatican Radio, USA; Brother Vincent Malham FSC, President, Vice Councellor, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem; Fr Emilie Salaitah, Latin Patriarchate; Fr Robert Fortin AA, Latin Patriarchate; H.B. Msgr Michel Sabbah, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem; Father Pierre Grech, Secretary General, Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land; H.E. Msgr Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo,Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Israel; H.E. Mgr. Jean-Babtiste Gourion, Auxiliary Latin Patriarch; H.E. Archbishop Paul Nabil Sayah, Maronite Patriarchal Exarch; Fr William Shomali, Latin Patriarchate; Claudette Habash, Caritas Jerusalem; Maher Turjman, Regional Director, Pontifical Mission for Palestine; H.E. Msgr Kevork Khazoumian, Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarch; Rev. Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Custos of the Holy Land; Rev.Fr. Paul Collin, Chaldean Patriarchal Vicariate; Donald J Rogers; Fr Majdi Siryani, Latin Patriarchate Director, Legal Department; Fr Shawki Baterian, Latin Patriarchate; H.E. Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to Israel; Fr Markus Stephan Bugnyar, Rector, Austrian Hospice; H.E, Mgr Georges Haddad, Apostolic Administrator, Haifa; Brother Cyril Litecky FSC, Assistant to Vincent Malham, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem; Fr Michael O'Sullivan, Director, Maison d'Abraham, Secours Catholic- Caritas France; Arvid Weinlich, German Association of the Holy Land ; Rev Archimandrita Mtanios Haddad, Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarch(Melkite); H.E. Msgr Gregor Peter Malki, Syrian Catholic Patriarchal Exarch; ; Fr Romano Stephen Almagno, USA Holy Land Commissary, Custos of the Holy land.
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
8
Dec
2003

Development of The Arab Nation in The 21 Century “16th Annual Arab Thought Forum Meeting”.

  • Organizer: Arab Thought Forum, Amman.
  • Location: Amman, Jordan.
  • From: Dec. 8, 2003 - To: Dec. 9, 2003
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
7
Oct
2003

What Kind of Europe with Israel and Palestine? Listening for a Common Future.

  • Organizer: Venice Municipality, City Council and Peace Policies Department; Venice Province; National Coordinator of Local Authorities for Peace and Human Rights; Tovala Della Pace..
  • Location: Venice, Italy.
Speakers: Jumana Odeh, Delegate of JUZOOR- Foundation of Social and Health Development.
Isam Aqel, Executive Director, APLA, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities.
Paolo Balboni, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Venice.
Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA, Jerusalem.
Yousef Nasser, Professor of Economics, University of Birzeit.
Danny Rubinstein, Journalist, Editorialist of Ha’aretz
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
19
Sep
2003

EuroMeSCo Working Group 5 “Governance and Civil Society”

  • Organizer: SWP, PASSIA & IEA.
  • Location: Dublin, Ireland.
  • From: Sept. 19, 2003 - To: Sept. 20, 2003
Participants: Volker Perthes, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin; Mahdi Abdul Hadi, PASSIA, Jerusalem, Palestine; Hijazi Natsheh, PASSIA, Jerusalem, Palestine; Niall Greene, Institute for European Affairs (IEA), Dublin; Muriel Asseburg, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); Bettina Huber, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); Salah Abdul Shafi, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Gaza, Palestine; Salam Kawakibi, Institut Francais du Proche-Orient (IFPO) Aleppo, Syria; Hassan Barari, Center for Strategic Studies (CSS), University of Jordan, Amman
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
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18
Sep
2003

EuroMeSCo Steering Committee Meeting

  • Organizer: EuroMeSCo Secretariat, IEEI, Portugal.
  • Location: Brussels, Belgium.
Participants: Alvaro de Vasconcelos; Robert Aliboni; Dorothee Schmid; Mahdi Abdul Hadi; George Joffé; Emily Landau; Volker Perthes; Elvira Sanchez Mateos; Ahmed Driss
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
21
Aug
2003

The 17th session on Muslim-Christian Heritage in the Holy Land. (Twenty years since the first conference)

  • Organizer: Al-Liqa’ Center for Religious and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land, Bethlehem.
  • Location: Bethlehem.
  • From: Aug. 21, 2003 - To: Aug. 23, 2003
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
11
Oct
2002

EuroMeSCo Link Meeting

  • Organizer: EuroMeSCo Secretariat (Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais), Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Location: Lisbon, Portugal.
  • From: Oct. 11, 2002 - To: Oct. 12, 2002
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
23
Sep
2002

84th Wilton Park Conference on: "Prospects for Peace in the Middle East" For brief summaries of key points emerging from each conference

  • Organizer: Wilton Park, an Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK.
  • Location: London. United Kingdom.
  • From: Sept. 23, 2007 - To: Sept. 27, 2002
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
21
Sep
2002

Evaluation Meeting for the Islamic-Christian Dialogue Team

  • Organizer: The Middle East Council of Churches, Lebanon.
  • Location: Beirut, Lebanon.
  • From: Sept. 21, 2002 - To: Sept. 22, 2002
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
8
Sep
2002

First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)

  • Organizer: Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), Institute of Geography, University of Mainz..
  • Location: University of Mainz, Germany.
  • From: Sept. 8, 2002 - To: Sept. 13, 2002
Speakers: Mahdi Abdul Hadi, PASSIA: Introduction and Reflection on the Presentation and Discussion
Nazmi Al-Ju'beh, Birzeit University: What is Jerusalem Today?
Daniel Seideman, Attorney, Jerusalem: What is Jerusalem Today?
Manuel Hassassian, Bethlehem University: Negotiating Jerusalem
Menachem Klein, Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies: Negotiating Jerusalem
All Conferences were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA