Projects
Project Duration
December 2021 – May 2025
This project has started in December 2021 and aims to generate further understanding (tafahum) among regional stakeholders and to foster cooperation (tabadul) on common interests in West Asia and the Arabian Peninsula (WAAP) – a region that includes the GCC states, Iran, Iraq and Yemen. In the course of this project, various stakeholders like officials, academics and experts as well as civil society actors will be engaged on various levels with the aim of generating a political climate that is more conducive to regional cooperation. Furthermore it aims at collectively examining the energy-climate-health nexus – a concept that entails economic and ecologic sustainability, as well as regional health resilience, and at fostering people-to-people mobility in the region through exchange activities in the fields of academia and civic education. This 1-year initiative is funded by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and builds on the results of the Tafahum project and the first phase of the Tafahum wa Tabadul project, which were implemented between 2018-2023 funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
