While insurgencies and terror have threatened the world on an unprecedented scale over the last few decades, the new challenge is developing a sustainable model of peace. This panel examined the situation from the MENA to AFPAK, with emphasis on the responses to
terror and violent extremism thus far . Panellists constituted:-
Dr. Benedetta Berti, Head, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO, Belgium
Dr. Arian Sharifi , Director of National Threat Assessment, Office of National Security Council, Afghanistan
Richard Priem, Associate Political Affairs Officer, UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate
Hilde Deman, Country Director, Search for Common Ground, Tunisia
Dr. Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University, India (Moderator)
