Date: Wednesday 30 November 2016
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Lukman Faily
Chair: Professor Toby Dodge

Lukman Faily argues that the lack of social harmony in Iraqi society represents a key factor of instability and that it is necessary to identify and mediate this problem by encouraging increased cooperation between citizens though state-supported social and religious programmes.

Lukman Faily (@FailyLukman) is the current Iraqi Ambassador to the United States. He also served as Iraq’s Ambassador to Japan from 2010-2013. Prior to his ambassadorial posts, he held senior positions as a programme manager in the information technology sectors of several large transnational companies in the United Kingdom. He has more than three decades’ experience in community work and political activism among the Iraqi diaspora in the UK.

Toby Dodge (@ProfTobyDodge) is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre and Professor of International Relations at LSE.

The LSE Middle East Centre (@LSEMiddleEast) builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and North Africa and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region carried out at LSE.

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This event is free and open to all but pre-registration required. Register at Social Harmony: An Iraqi perspective. For any queries email Sandra Sfeir at s.sfeir@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6198.

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