Randa slim biography of martin

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    • Randa Slim

    Lebanese-American foreign-policy professional

    Randa Slim is a Lebanese-American foreign-policy professional specializing in Track II diplomacy.

    Career

    Slim is founding director of the Initiative for Track II Dialogues at the Middle East Institute[1] as well as a senior research fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Foreign Policy Institute[2] and the New America Foundation.[3][4]

    She has said that her interest in Track II diplomacy—so-called to distinguish conflict-resolution conversations that are not part of official Track I talks—came from her experiences as a girl during the Lebanese Civil War.[5]

    From to , Slim worked at the Kettering Foundation on the Dartmouth Conferences,[6] confidential U.S.-Soviet, then U.S.-Russian, discussions that began in at Dartmouth College.[7] She was part of the multi-year Inter-Tajik Dialogue.[8]

    After the Septem