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About the project teamDirectors
A wide range of advisers have been chosen to reflect political complexity, creativity and wisdom. All have a deep knowledge of the Middle East and they have been chosen in order to support fresh ideas and new thinking.
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Monika Barthwal has been working as a Research Assistant
to Gabrielle Rifkind since September 2005. She is currently pursuing
her doctoral research at Royal Holloway College, University of London
and her PhD focuses on regional security in South Asia. She also has
a keen interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict. 
Lord Alderdice is a medical doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist
who has been active in politics since the 1970s. He was a key negotiator
of the Good Friday Agreement. He sits as a Liberal Democrat in the
House of Lords and has substantial experience of political conflict
and international terrorism and is currently focusing on the Middle
East. In 2006 he was appointed to the Commonwealth Commission on Respect
and Understanding.
Michael Brearley is a psychoanalyst. He was a professional
cricketer who captained England between 1977 and 1981. He has long
had an interest in how to get teams to cohere, and how to deal with
conflict. His present work involves trying to allow different voices
to be heard and powerful emotions to be tolerated.
Alastair Crooke is Director of Conflicts Forum. Before establishing
Conflicts Forum he was Advisor on Middle East and Security Issues
to Javier Solana, the EU Foreign and Security Policy Chief. He was
also a staff member of Senator George Mitchell's Fact Finding Committee
that inquired into the causes of the Intifada (2000-01).
Dr Tony Klug, a veteran writer and analyst on the
Middle East, is Vice-Chair of the Arab-Jewish Forum and a board member
of the Palestine-Israel Journal. For many years he worked at the international
secretariat of Amnesty International. In June 2007, The Fabian Society
published his acclaimed essay 
Bassma Kodmani is the Executive Director of the Arab
Reform Initiative. She is also senior adviser on international cooperation
to the French national research council (CNRS). From 1999 to 2005
she headed the Governance and International Cooperation Program at
the Ford Foundation office for the Middle East and North Africa. Here
she had special responsibility for initiating and supporting joint
Israeli-Palestinian projects, including track II meetings. Previously,
she established and directed the Middle East Program at the Institut
Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in Paris and
was Associate Professor of International Relations at Paris University.
Chris Langdon is Programme Director and a part-time
member of Wilton Park conference team. He is also an independent filmmaker;
he has wide experience as a television producer specialising in international
affairs. As a BBC producer, he has worked extensively in Central and
South-Eastern Europe, as well as Russia, Iran and South Africa.
Gianni Picco worked for some 20 years (1973-92) at the United
Nations. He led the task force which secured the cease-fire agreement
between Iran and Iraq in 1988. From 1988 to 1992 he conducted the
operation which led to the release of 11 western hostages in Lebanon
and the recovery of the remains of two more, as well as the identification
of some Israeli MIAs in Lebanon and the release of Lebanese detained
without due process by Israel. He was also a member of the negotiating
team on the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Since
1994 he has been a consultant to private companies on matters of political
risks and critical infrastructure protection.
Professor Oliver Ramsbotham is Professor of Conflict Resolution
at the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford,
UK which he headed from 1999 to 2002. He has published, together with
Hugh Miall and Tom Woodhouse, a major study of the conflict resolution
field, Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management
and Resolution of Deadly Conflict (Polity, 1999; 2nd edition 2005).
Sir Malcolm Rifkind served in the Foreign Office from 1982-86
as a Minister of State and from 1995-97 as Foreign Secretary. From
1992-95 he was Secretary of State for Defence. He is currently MP
for Kensington and Chelsea.
Dr Azzam Tamimi is Director of the Institute of Islamic Political
Thought (IIPT) in London and former Director of the Islamic Movement
Parliamentary Office in Amman, Jordan. He is author of Hamas: Unwritten
Chapters (C. Hurst & Co, 2006).
Husam Zomlot is a specialist on Middle East affairs. He is
Palestinian and currently works as a political advisor to the PLO
diplomatic mission to the UK and is Oxford Research Group's Middle
East Consultant. Mr. Zomlot previous work experience includes the
Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute and the United Nation’s
Office of the Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories. 