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George Emile Irani

Director, Africa and the Middle East Programme, Toledo International Centre for Peace

George Emile Irani is Director for the Africa and the Middle East Programme for the Toledo International for Peace (CITPAX) in Madrid, Spain.

Until June 2005 he was a Professor in the Peace and Conflict Studies Division at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada. Prior to that, he was senior policy analyst with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In 1997-98, Dr. Irani was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) where he conducted research on rituals as methods of conflict control and reduction in the Middle East. Between 1993 and 1997, Irani was assistant professor in political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut (Lebanon).

While in Lebanon, he organized two international conferences funded by USIP. The first dealt with the issue of forgiveness and reconciliation in Lebanon and the second tackled the issue of the internally-displaced population in postwar Lebanon.

Dr. Irani is the author of "The Papacy and the Middle East: The Role of the Holy See in the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (1989) that was translated in French, Italian, Arabic and Portuguese. Together with his wife, Dr. Laurie King-Irani he co-edited the book "Acknowledgment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Lessons from Lebanon" published by the Lebanese American University (1996).
Together with Dr. Vamik Volkan and Ms Judy Carter, Dr. Irani is currently completing a Workbook on Ethnopolitical Conflicts to be published by Prentice Hall.

He holds a laurea in political science from the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano, Italy) and an MA and Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Southern California.