On April 1, 2019, an international conference on extremism and violence in and around the Middle East started in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The event was organized by the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM, USA), and the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD, United Arab Emirates).
On April 1, 2019, an international conference on extremism and violence in and around the Middle East started in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The event was organized by the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM, USA), and the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD, United Arab Emirates).
The conference covers a wide range of topics. The key topics of discussion for the first conference day were: violence prevention policies, violent extremism drivers, radical movements outside the Middle East. The meeting is attended by Russian, American, and French experts.
Al Bloom, NYUAD Vice Chancellor, and Glenn Schweitzer, NASEM spokesperson, addressed the researchers with opening remarks. Thomas Pickering, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States, Vice Chairman of Hills & Company; and Vitaly Naumkin, Academic Director of RAS Institute for Oriental Studies, RAS Academician, RIAC Member; made speeches at the opening of the conference. The opening session was moderated by Valery Tishkov, Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member. The delegation of Russian researchers and speakers also included Vasily Kuznetsov, Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC expert; Nikolay Plotnikov, Director, Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert; Lyudmila Babynina, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies, RIAC expert; and Ruslan Mamedov, RIAC Program Assistant.
