Conference Schedule

CMEP Middle East Peace Advocacy Conference
 

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Sunday, April 20

Location: Kellogg Hotel at Gallaudet University

800 Florida Ave, NE

 3:00pm  Registration opens (dinner is on your own)

6:45-8:15pm

Gathering and Opening Plenary (open to the public)

Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Warren Clark, CMEP Executive Director and Maureen Shea, Chair of the Board

8:15-9:15pm

Reception

9:15pm

Taizé Prayer Service (optional)

Monday, April 21

Location: Kellogg Hotel at Gallaudet University

800 Florida Ave, NE

9:00-10:30am

Plenary Panel — Regional Conflicts, Challenges and Solutions

Gary Sick, Gulf/2000 Project

Shibley Telhami, University of Maryland/Brookings Institution

10:45-11:45am

Workshops Session I

12:00-1:00pm

Luncheon with Keynote - B. Todd Deatherage, US Department of State

1:00-2:00pm

Plenary Panel Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking and the U.S. Role

Ori Nir, Americans for Peace Now

Ziad Asali, American Task Force on Palestine

Phil Wilcox, Foundation for Middle East Peace

2:15-3:15pm

Workshops Session II

3:30-5:00pm

Preparation for Lobby Day

5:15pm

Special Event

Book Talk with Aaron David Miller, Woodrow Wilson Center

"The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace"

 Evening  Church and denominational gatherings - TBA

9:15pm

Taizé Prayer Service (optional)

Tuesday, April 22 - Lobby Day

Location: Lutheran Church of the Reformation and Capitol Hill Offices

212 East Capitol Street, NE

8:30-9:30am

Congressional Prayer Breakfast co-hosted by Reps. David Price (D-NC) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and with prayers for peace from Christian Leaders

Location: House Capitol Room HC-5

10:30am

House Appointment

12:00pm & 1:30pm

Senate Appointments

Participants will be guided in making appointments with their Representative and two Senators.


  


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