Foundation for Middle East Peace and Middle East Institute invite you to a discussion with the Jerusalem Old City Initiative: Michael Bell, John de Chastelain, Marshall J. Breger and Arthur Hughes.

At its core, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about control over Jerusalem's Holy Sites, the most important of which are located in the Old City. Sites such as the Temple Mount and Western Wall are powerful religious, cultural and emotional symbols which must be administered with fairness and equity if the profound needs of the stakeholders are to be met. Without mutually-agreed and sustainable arrangements for the Old City, enduring peace for Israel with Palestinians and Arabs will be unattainable. The Jerusalem Old City Initiative was created to pursue creative governance and management options for Jerusalem's Old City. For over four years, working in close consultation with Palestinian, Israeli, regional and international experts and advisors, the JOCI has been working toward this end.

Appearing for the JOCI will be Michael Bell, Professor of International Diplomacy at the University of Windsor, Canada, and former Canadian career foreign service officer including assignments as Ambassador to Israel, Egypt and Jordan; John de Chastelain, retired general, former chief of Canada's Defence Staff, Ambassador to the United States and one of the three International Chairmen for the Northern Ireland Peace Process and Chairman of the Arms Decommissioning  Commission; Marshall J. Breger, professor of law at the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, a former senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Solicitor and Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor, alternate delegate to the UN HRC, chair of the administrative conference of the US, visiting professor of law at Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University, and President Reagan's liaison to the Jewish community; and Arthur Hughes, former US foreign service officer with service as Deputy in Israel, Ambassador to Yemen and deputy assistant secretary of Defense and also of State, he was director general of the MFO, Israel-Egypt peacekeeping, and is now an adjunct scholar at MEI.

To RSVP please email: info@fmep.org or call 202-835-3650.