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Syria After Assad: Managing the Challenges of Transition

Over the past year, a group of opposition activists collaborated to develop recommendations and strategies for managing the challenges of a post-Assad transition. This will be the first presentation in the United States of the document they produced: “The Day After: Supporting a Democratic Transition in Syria.”

This event will be webcast live beginning at 9:30am EDT on October 4, 2012 at www.usip.org/webcast. Online viewers will be able to engage panelists and each other through live chat and Twitter discussions (Hashtag: #USIP).

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Speakers

  • Steven Heydemann, introductory remarks and moderator
    Senior Adviser for Middle East Initiatives
    U.S. Institute of Peace.
  • Jim Marshall, opening remarks
    President
    U.S. Institute of Peace
  • Amr al-Azm, panelist
    Associate Professor of History at Shawnee State University in Ohio. Member of the executive committee for the NCC (National Change Current); member of the Executive Committee of The Day After project and its Economic and Social Reconstruction working group.
  • Afra Jalabi, panelist
    Anthropologist, political scientist and  writer based in Montreal, Canada. Member of the Damascus Declaration and the Syrian National Council, member of the Executive Committee of The Day After project and its Transitional Justice working group.
  • Murhaf Jouejati, panelist
    Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science and International Affairs at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Member of the Syrian National Council, member of the Executive Committee of The Day After project and its Security Sector Reform working group.
  • Rafif Jouejati, panelist
    English-language spokesperson for the Local Coordination Committees in Syria, the National Consensus Movement, and Activists for a Free Syria; member of the Executive Committee of The Day After project and its working group on Economic and Social Reconstruction.
  • Rami Nakhla, panelist
    Program Specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), coordinating The Day After project on the Institute’s behalf; director of the Syrian Transition Support Network and member of the Executive Committee of The Day After project
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