The Kuwait Program at Sciences Po is a partnership between the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and Sciences Po.

This conference will create a forum on how to generate solidarity for peace in an uncertain world by discussing the stakes of diplomacy, anthropology, climate and conflict in war.

March 5th – Panel Sessions

(Hôtel de l’Industrie, 4 Place Saint-Germain des Prés, 75006 Paris)

10:15 am-12:15 pm: Panel 1 – « Diplomacy and War »

Chair: Vanessa Scherrer, Vice President for International Affairs, Sciences Po

• H.E. Mansour Al-Otaibi, Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations
• Staffan de Mistura, former United Nations Special Envoy for Syria ; PSIA Faculty Member, Sciences Po
• Peter Herrly, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired); former Chief of Doctrine, U.S. Joint Staff; former U.S. Defense Attaché, France ; PSIA Faculty Member, Sciences Po
• Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Director of the Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM), French Ministry of Defence; PSIA Faculty Member, Sciences Po.

2:45 pm-4:45 pm: Panel 2 – « Investigating narratives of anthropology & war »

Chair: Deborah Wheeler, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, United States Naval Academy; Kuwait Program Visiting Professor, PSIA, Sciences Po

• R. Brian Ferguson, Professor, Division of Global Affairs, Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University
• Hazem Kandil, Reader in Political Sociology, Fellow of St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Panel 3 – « Climate change and conflict »

Chair: Enrico Letta, Dean of Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA); former Prime Minister of Italy.

• Rami Zurayk, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut
• François Gemenne, CNRS Senior Research Associate; Director, The Hugo Observatory, University of Liege, Belgium; Co-Director, Observatory on Climate and Defense, DGRIS, Ministry of Armed Forces, France
• Carola Kloeck, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po.

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