Prague Center for Middle East Relations
The Prague Center for Middle East Relations (PCMR) was established in September 2019 as an internal research, education and advisory facility of CEVRO Institute.Recent Activities
Roundtable “Yemen Entangled: Discussing the Current Dynamics”
Prague Centre from Middle East Relations (PCMR) of CEVRO organized a closed roundtable “Yemen Entangled: Discussing the Current Dynamics” with Nadwa al-Dawsari, non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (MEI) and a fellow at the Center on Armed Groups.
Meet Our New Research Fellow at PCMR Filip Sommer
We are excited to announce that Filip Sommer has recently joined our team as a research fellow at Prague Centre for Middle East Relations (PCMR) of CEVRO. His research focuses on Kurdish politics, Middle East security, economic and political issues especially in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
Roundtable “Iraq’s Oil and Gas Sector from Regional Perspective”
Prague Centre from Middle East Relations (PCMR) of CEVRO organized a closed roundtable “Iraq’s Oil and Gas Sector from Regional Perspective: Prospects and Setbacks” with Mohammed Hussein, Senior Analyst at Iraqi Oil Report and Senior Expert in the Iraqi Economists Network.
Message of the PCMR Director
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been undergoing significant political turbulences that affect not only regional stability and security but also international politics. The Arab Spring leading to profound changes in regimes and governance in some of the countries, ongoing armed conflicts, migration crisis and threat of Islamic extremism are all issues that are discussed in media on daily basis that we feel do not have enough attention in academic and public policy sphere in the Czech Republic and consequently also in the wider Central Europe.
Mission
- Our mission is to further in-depth academic understanding of the rapid security, political and social economic changes in the Middle East and North Africa through conducting up to date policy-oriented research.
- We also aim to develop relevant recommendations regarding the developments in the MENA region to assist decision-making processes both in the Czech Republic and in wider Central Europe.
- We also focus on enriching contemporary debate among academia, decision-makers and wider public regarding the challenges and opportunities the MENA region currently faces and its implications for both domestic and foreign policy-making of European countries.
Vision
- We aspire to fill in the existing gap in the landscape of think-tanks in the Czech Republic and in wider Central Europe by focusing on current issues in the MENA region.
- We endeavour to become a leading research institution in Central Europe concentrating on producing high-quality, practice-oriented research results regarding the developments in the MENA region.
- We aim at cultivating academic, media, and public policy debate regarding the MENA region and challenges it faces in order to identify opportunities and tackle threats stemming from rapid changes in the area.
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