Practitioner Engagement Series 2023: Navigating Global Crises
Dr. Dimitris Bouris (Chairholder) in collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES)
29 November 2023
In November and December 2023 Dr. Dimitris Bouris (he/him) (UvA) Jean Monnet Chairholder of ATHENA will organise the 8th Practitioners Engagement Series in cooperation with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES). This year’s series will engage with topical issues and will also involve several high-level officials, policy-makers, academics and practitioners. Topics include the humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh and Israel’s war on Gaza.
Nagorno-Karabakh
The two-part series opens with a discussion on the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh. Set against the backdrop of the one-day war in September 2023, this event shed light on the dire consequences faced by the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh and the EU’s role in the conflict.
War on Gaza
The series continues with an event focusing on an in-conversation between Dimitris Bouris, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967; Omar Barghouti and Erella Grassiani, University of Amsterdam.
