The Deputy Director and Nyon Process Manager attend ‘One Year On: Turmoil and Transition – The Arab Uprisings and the Path Ahead’, March 2012

The Deputy Director, Yusuf Desai, and the Nyon Process Manager, Julian Weinberg, were invited to the Global Strategy Forum seminar on the current situation in, and future of, the Middle East and North Africa one year on from the Arab Spring. Speakers at the seminar included: Dr Maha Azzam, Associate Fellow at Chatham House; Sir Richard Dalton KCMG, former UK Ambassador to Iran and Libya; the Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State for International Development; Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor at Channel 4 News; Dr Eugene Rogan, Fellow of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford; the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, former Home Secretary (1997-2001), Foreign Secretary (2001-2006) and Justice Secretary (2007-2010); and Lord Williams of Baglan, former United Nations Under Secretary-General and Special Coordinator for Lebanon (2008-2011).