Starr Forum: The Israel-Gaza crisis and US policy

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Starr Forum: The Israel-Gaza crisis and US policy: Dennis Ross in conversation with Melani Cammett

Introduction: Evan Lieberman, Director, Center for International Studies

Moderator: Philip Khoury, MIT Vice Provost

Closing remarks: Karl Reid, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Institute Community & Equity Office

Speakers:

Dennis Ross is the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He also teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping US involvement in the Middle East peace process as the US point man on the peace process in both the George H W Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He also served as special assistant to President Obama and as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and as special advisor on Iran to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Melani Cammett is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She also holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Cammett's award-winning books include "Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon" and "A Political Economy of the Middle East." Her current research projects explore "toleration" and reconciliation after ethnoreligious violence, development and identity politics. She has published numerous articles in academic and policy journals, consults for development policy organizations, and serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Syria.

Co-sponsored: Institute Community & Equity Office, Center for International Studies and MENA/MIT.

Reception to follow in Lobby 13.

Host or Publisher MIT Center for International Studies