This collaboration aims for a respectful, intelligent and nuanced dialogue on Palestine and Middle Eastern Peace. Hear from Dr Makram Khoury-Machool, Clare Short and Afif Safieh-academics, experts and diplomats who have seen the evolution of the conflict over the decade. In particular, many of these figures have seen the changing face of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the setbacks and reverses in the peace process- and we aim to foster a conversation about how to foster peaceful solutions amidst such enormous violence and conflict.

Clare Short
Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003. Prior to her parliamentary career, Clare worked as a civil servant at the Home Office where she worked within the Criminal and Immigration Departments and as part the Urban Deprivation Unit. During this period she also worked as director of both Youth Aid and All Faiths for One Race which focused on youth unemployment and combatting racism in Birmingham.
Clare resigned from the Government in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq War.

Afif Safieh
Afif Safieh is a Palestinian diplomat. He has served as a Palestinian delegate to the Netherlands (1987-1990), to the United Kingdom (1990-2005), the Holy See, Vatican (1995-2005), and in Washington, D.C. as the head of the PLO mission
(2005-2008). He was most recently the Palestinian ambassador to the Russian Federation. He also was deputy director of the PLO Observer Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Makram Khoury-Machool
Makram Khoury-Machool is a Palestinian-British academician specializing in International Relations and Political Communication, and the director of the European Centre for the study of Extremism in Cambridge, UK.