The Center for Comparative and International Studies and the URPP Asia and Europe would like to invite you to a presentation by Hasan Abu Nimah:

Subject: "The Role of Religion in the Politics of Human Security, with Emphasis on Religion and Politics in Today's Middle East."

Time & Place: 4 May 2010, 18:15 h, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, Room KOL-E-21.

Speaker: Hasan Abu Nimah is the former permanent representative of Jordan at the United Nations. He is Director of the Regional Human Security Centre (http://www.rhsc.org.jo), a non-profit, independent institution that seeks to advance the human security agenda through applied research, training, and the facilitation of dialogue around practical policy recommendations.

Juliane Schiel

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