The Kurdish Peace Process and the Future of the Middle East

   Speakers

• Ibrahim Al-Assil, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Middle East Initiative 
  Syrian State-Building, Kurds and Their Impacts on Syria, Turkey, and the Beyond
• Ekrem Karakoç, Harvard Weatherhead Center Alumni and Professor at Binghamton University
  Kurdish and Turkish Societies in the Peace Process: Expectations and Challenges
• Mehmet Gurses, Najmaldin Karim & Jalal Talabani Chair of Kurdish Studies, University of Central Florida
  The Evolving Kurdish Question: Where to Now?
• Evren Balta, Harvard Weatherhead Center Alumni and Professor at Özyeğin University, Turkey
  Negotiating Peace from Above: Elite Frames and the Politics of Language in Turkey’s Kurdish Peace Process

• Ayşe Betül Çelik, Harvard Weatherhead Center Visiting Scholar and Professor at Sabancı University, Turkey
  Turkish Fears and Kurdish Hopes: A Symbolic Consensus on What “Peace” Should Entail

  Chair

• Melani Cammett, Center Director; Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Identity and Conflict; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University.

  Contact

• Walid Hammam
  walid_hammam@wcfia.harvard.edu
• Cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Global Scholars Network on Identity and Conflict.