This
weekend, GPPAC members from Lebanon and Ghana and a representative of
its Global Secretariat are attending an expert meeting on the European
Union (EU) and the League of Arab States (LAS):
The EU and the LAS are stepping up their co-operation on a range of issues, including energy, culture, empowerment of women, legal affairs, human rights, humanitarian assistance, electoral process, crisis management and early warning. In addition, recent EU-LAS declarations and the joint work programme underlined the importance of civil society, in particular in light of current regional transformations.
In this context, the European Union, The League of Arab States and the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) have organized the expert-level meeting ‘European Union – League of Arab States co-operation and the EU response to changes in the Arab region: Views from Civil Society.’ The meeting is taking place now in Veletta, Malta, and seeks to:
• Gather analysis from civil society experts from the Middle East and North Africa region and Europe on the key challenges of peaceful transformation in the Arab world, the EU's response to these regional transformations and EU-LAS cooperation in developing regional and joint responses
• Discuss the relationship between regional organizations and civil society in addressing these regional issues
Participants include representatives of the EU and the LAS and civil society representatives. GPPAC will be represented by Fadi Abi Allam, GPPAC’s Regional Representative in the Middle East and North Africa and founder of the Permanent Peace Movement (PPM), Chukwuemeka B. Eze, Programs Director at W-A-N-E-P, and Darynell RodrÃguez Torres, GPPAC’s Programme Manager Policy and Advocacy.
(picture is from a previous meeting of GPPAC representatives with the LAS at their headquarters in Cairo)
The EU and the LAS are stepping up their co-operation on a range of issues, including energy, culture, empowerment of women, legal affairs, human rights, humanitarian assistance, electoral process, crisis management and early warning. In addition, recent EU-LAS declarations and the joint work programme underlined the importance of civil society, in particular in light of current regional transformations.
In this context, the European Union, The League of Arab States and the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) have organized the expert-level meeting ‘European Union – League of Arab States co-operation and the EU response to changes in the Arab region: Views from Civil Society.’ The meeting is taking place now in Veletta, Malta, and seeks to:
• Gather analysis from civil society experts from the Middle East and North Africa region and Europe on the key challenges of peaceful transformation in the Arab world, the EU's response to these regional transformations and EU-LAS cooperation in developing regional and joint responses
• Discuss the relationship between regional organizations and civil society in addressing these regional issues
Participants include representatives of the EU and the LAS and civil society representatives. GPPAC will be represented by Fadi Abi Allam, GPPAC’s Regional Representative in the Middle East and North Africa and founder of the Permanent Peace Movement (PPM), Chukwuemeka B. Eze, Programs Director at W-A-N-E-P, and Darynell RodrÃguez Torres, GPPAC’s Programme Manager Policy and Advocacy.
(picture is from a previous meeting of GPPAC representatives with the LAS at their headquarters in Cairo)
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