Five Years after the Arab Revolutions:

"The Arduous Road of Democratization and Future

Prospects"

An Arab and International Conference at the American University of Beirut
January 21, 22 and 23, 2016
Organized by AUB's Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) and the
Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS)

In association with the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs is pleased to announce “Five Years after the Arab Revolutions: The Arduous Road of Democratization and Future Prospects”, an academic conference to be held in Beirut from January 21-23, 2016.
The conference’s will include several presentations that fall under the following focus area:

• The State: Its Structure and the Way it Impacts the Difficult Transition
• Democracy, Spontaneous Revolutions and Organized Forces
• Recent Dynamics in Society
• Regional and International Polarizations and their Impact on Revolutions