CMEP is pleased to announce that Andrew
Whitley, Director of the Representative
Office of UNRWA (United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the Near East),
will be the guest speaker for our next grassroots
network conference call on February 27th
at 1pm ET. Mr. Whitley will
report on UNRWA's work in the West Bank
and Gaza, the current humanitarian
situation and its implications for
progress on the peace process. Mr.
Whitley was a speaker at a Feb 12th
Capitol Hill
Briefing,
"Re-Calculating Annapolis:
Understanding
the Crisis in Gaza and Southern Israel and Its
Impact on the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process" co-hosted
by CMEP and collegial Jewish and
Arab-American organizations. To
view the video of this event, please
click
here.
ABOUT CMEP NETWORK CONFERENCE CALLS:
Churches for Middle East Peace offers
occasional conference calls featuring
prominent policy analysts and issue
experts from the CMEP/church community
and others who stand with CMEP in
support of Middle East peace*. The
conference call speakers offer their
perspectives and provide timely,
informational updates on key
developments in Washington and the
region.
HOW TO CALL IN: Dial 1-641-715-3200 and then
enter the access code 644415#. You are
responsible for domestic long distance
charges associated with this call. The
call will last approximately one hour,
beginning promptly at 1pm (ET).
QUESTIONS: The presentation will be
followed by a question and answer
session open to all participants.
Questions should be submitted by email
before or during the call to
confcall@cmep.org.
BACKGROUND READING:
"Letters from Gaza (6)
…between
Gaza and Sderot", by
Najwa Sheikh (in Gaza),
UNRWA, February 2008
"Open
the Rafah Crossing", Editorial,
Haaretz, February 8, 2008
"Additional
United States Contribution to Refugees
and Conflict Victims in the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and Africa",
Fact Sheet, US
Department of State, Washington, DC,
January 31, 2008
SPEAKER BIO:
ANDREW WHITLEY
is currently Director of the Representative Office of UNRWA, the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
At the UN, Whitely has also served with UNCTAD in Geneva, as Chief of the
Secretary-General’s Office, and with the Department of Peacekeeping
Operations, holding senior posts in UN transitional administrations in
East Timor and Kosovo. Mr. Whitley previously worked as an academic, in
Tehran and New York; as a foreign correspondent specializing in the Middle
East, South Asia and Latin America, with the BBC and Financial Times; and
in human rights. He was the founding director of Middle East Watch now
Human Rights Watch/Middle East and North Africa.
*The views expressed by Churches for Middle East Peace Conference Call
speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of CMEP.
