The UN in the Arab World program

at the

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

cordially invites you to a panel discussion with distinguished speakers from

AUB and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

"What is the Role of Humanitarian Organizations in Shaping Global Politics?

Exploring the Perception and Impact of MSF in Countries of Intervention"

Wednesday 14 December 2011 | 5:00 – 6:30 pm | Auditorium B1, College Hall, AUB

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Moderator:

Karim Makdisi is IFI’s Associate Director, and Associate Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, AUB

Speakers:

Bruno Jochum is General Director of MSF. Previously, he was the Director of Operations for MSF’s Operational Centre in Geneva, in charge of the operational policy and overseeing programmes in 21 countries. Jochum started working in medical humanitarian relief in 1993 in the Horn of Africa (Sudan, Somalia) and Great Lakes

Caroline Abu-Sada is Research Unit Coordinator, MSF, and author of In the Eyes of Others: Perception of MSF and humanitarian action. She represents MSF at the Steering Committee of the Centre for Studies and Research on Humanitarian Action in Geneva, a Centre led by both the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva.

Omar Al-Dewachi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Public Health, AUB. His work explores the ethnography of contemporary wars in Iraq through the lens of health and medicine, as they pertain to questions of biopolitics, securitization, violence, humanitarianism, and governmentality of the post-colonial nation-state.