São Paulo – Brazil’s role in mediating conflicts in the Middle East will be discussed next Friday (1st) at the São Paulo School of Economics (EESSP, in the Portuguese acronym) of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), in São Paulo. At the conference, scholars will review the country’s efforts in intermediating dialogue in the region. The participants will also point out strategies that need to be further developed, and errors in Brazilian foreign policy.
The meeting will be promoted by the FGV International Relations Centre. Participants will include the Coordinator of the International Relations Centre, Elena Lazarou, the researcher at the National Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq) and FGV International Relations professor, Cecilia Baeza, and the visiting professor of the International Relations Institute of the University of São Paulo, Elodie Brun.
According to information released by the event’s press office, other participants will include the professor at the FGV International Relations course and at Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco, Guilherme Casarões, and the professor at the FGV International Law course and director of the Institute of Arab Culture (Icarabe), Salem Nasser. The event is free of charge and there are limited slots.
Brazil has established increasingly closer ties with Middle Eastern countries, particularly Arab ones, over the past few years. In 2005, the emergence of the Summit of South American-Arab Countries (Aspa), created by the then-Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has helped bring governments and businessmen from the two regions closer together. The Summit’s second edition took place in Qatar in 2009 and the third edition was held in Peru, last year, featuring the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.
Service :
Lecture “Brazilian attempts at mediation in the Middle East”
November 1, Friday at 4:00 pm
At the EESP-FGV, on Itapeva Street, 474 – 6th floor – Auditorium – São Paulo – SP
Information and registration: cpdoc.sp@fgv.br
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
