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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 1991 to 2000, Slim worked at the Kettering Foundation on the Dartmouth Conferences,^[6] confidential U.S.-Soviet, then U.S.-Russian, discussions that began in 1961 at Dartmouth College.^[7] She was part of the multi-year Inter-Tajik Dialogue.^{[8] Biography of isaac!}