On 11-13 May 2007 Pugwash convened an international workshop on Iraq’s crisis of instability in Erbil, the northern Iraqi capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The workshop gathered participants from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The twin objectives of the meeting were firstly to gain insight into the root causes of the Iraqi conflict situation; and secondly, to find ways to deal with the sectarian violence and other types of conflicts in order to help the de-escalation of the crisis.
Erbil report on prospects for Iraq
Rapporteur: Saideh Lotfian
List of Participants
Iraqi Participants
Khalied Al Atiya, The First Deputy Speaker, Republic of Iraq Council of Representatives, Baghdad
Mr. Nazar Yaser Al Haider, Vice Chairman, Iraqi Minorities Council, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Salar Ali, Deputy Minister of Culture, Iraq
Miss Layla J. Alkhafaji, Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Nasser Al-Rubaey
Dr. Athem Alsabti, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of London Observatory / University College London; International Relations Officer for the Iraqi Academy of Science
Prof. Hussain Al-Shahristani, Minister of Oil, Republic of Iraq, Baghdad [formerly: Chairman of Standing Committee, Iraqi National Academy of Sciences; Visiting Professor, University of Surrey]
Mr. Sherzad A. Ameen (al-Najjar), Higher Education Advisor to Prime Minister, Kurdistan Region Government, Erbil, Iraq; Ass. Professor Political Science, College of Political Science, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, KRG, Iraq
Mr. Jamil Baban, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of Engineering Council UK ; Fellow of Energy Institute UK
Dr. Ibrahim Bahr Alolom, former Minister of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Sahib Esa, Council of Ministers, KRG, Erbil, Iraq
Mr. Khasro Goran, Deputy Governor, Mosul Governate, Iraq
Dr. Jabir Habeeb Jabir, Member of Iraqi Parliament, and Professor of Political Science, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Yonan M. Hozaya ,Deputy Secretary General of ADM ,former Minister of Industry and Energy in KRG, Erbil, Iraq
Mr. Mohammed Ihsan, Minister of Extra Regional Affairs, Kurdistan Regional Government, Erbil- Iraqi Kurdistan
Mr. Jasim M. Jaffar, Minister of Youth, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Narmin Othman Hassan, Minister of Environment, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Nijyar H. Shemdin, Member, Board of Directors, Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government-USA Liaison Office, McLean, VA, USA
Nassar Squir, Member of Parliament, Baghdad, Iraq
Mr. Arif Tayfor Al-Sardar, Deputy of President, Iraqi Council of Representatives, Baghdad, Iraq
Dr. Nabil Tohala, Project Manager, Consolidated Contractors Company S.A.L., Erbil, Iraq
Mr. George Yacu, Oil & Gas Advisor, Kurdistan Regional Government
HE Dr. Idris Hadi, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Non-Iraq Participants
Gen. (ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid, Chairman, Amman Center for Peace and Development, Amman, Jordan
Dr. Kayhan Barzegar, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Islamic Azad University (IAU), Science and Research Campus; Editor-in-chief, Journal of Law and Politics; Senior Research Fellow, Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies, Tehran, Iran
Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, Pugwash Executive Committee; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy
Mr. Marwan A. Dudin, Minister, Ambassador, Senator Rtd., Amman, Jordan
Ms. Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, The Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC, USA;
Prof. Saideh Lotfian, Member, Pugwash Council; Associate Professor of Political Science, and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran
Dr. H. Tarik Oguzlu, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bilkent University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Department of International Relations, Bilkent, Ankara/Turkey
Mr. Nasser Saghafi-Ameri, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and International Relations Department (FPIRD), Center for Strategic Research, Tehran, Iran
Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Mohamed Kadry Said, Member, Pugwash Council; Military Advisor, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Egypt
Sir Hilary Synnott KCMG, Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, UK; Eric Lane Honorary Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, UK
Observer
Mr. Tom Meek, First Secretary (Political), British Embassy, Baghdad
Pugwash Staff: Claudia Vaughn, Pugwash Conferences
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