TRT World Forum 2020 to include expert roundtables

By Cigdem Munibe Albayrak

ISTANBUL (AA) - The TRT World Forum 2020, scheduled to be held online on Dec. 1 and 2, will include expert roundtable sessions besides other discussions.

The international conference with the theme, Shifting Dynamics: The International Order in a Post-Pandemic World, would bring together scores of politicians, business people, scholars, activists and journalists.

The roundtables featured this year are: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel’s Engagement with the Arab States; War and Peace: The Fate of the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict; War and Disease: Living with COVID-19 in Syria and Yemen; The Disillusion of the American Dream: COVID-19 and the Politics of Healthcare; Energy and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Libya Conflict; Great Power Competition in the Balkans; The Future of the Arab World: 10 years after the Arab Spring, and Turkish Foreign Policy: Tradition, Geopolitics and Ideology in a Changing World Order.

Experts in these sessions include Hikmet Hajiyev, aide to the Azerbaijani president; Peter Millett, UK high commissioner to Cyprus; Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, head of the EU delegation to Turkey; Marwan Muasher, former deputy prime minister of Jordan; Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr., former US ambassador to Turkey; and Nathalie Tocci, director of the Italian International Affairs Institute.

More information on the event can be accessed at www.trtworldforum.com.

*Writing by Ahmet Gencturk