The current Israel–Hamas conflict, instigated by the ISIS-like Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, continues with ravaging impact in Gaza. The Middle East region is a tinderbox. Critical U.S. and international interests in security, stability, sovereignty, and nationhood are on the line.
Mara Rudman, a former U.S. deputy national security advisor and a Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, moderates a discussion on constructive ways forward with Ghaith al-Omari, former advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team; Nimrod Novik, former senior advisor on foreign policy to the late Shimon Peres and a member of the executive committee at Commanders for Israel's Security; and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and foreign policy program director at the Brookings Institution, whose research focuses on Iran and the broader Middle East and who served on the policy planning staff under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
This event is sponsored by UVA Global and the Miller Center.
