At the PRISME Initiative, we’re proud to work with a brilliant group of Associate #Experts helping us reimagine security in #MiddleEast beyond arms & the military. Meet our expert trio shaping conversations in 2025–2026 | prismeinitiative.org/about/ 👇 #SALAM #InclusiveSecurity #MENA

Security Beyond Arms: The Dual-Use Debate. How can Gulf states enhance security as they boost trade? Lauriane Héau (SIPRI) explains how export controls aren’t just about restrictions, they are tools for responsible trade & regional stability prismeinitiative.org/blog/relevan... #ArmsControl

"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday [and] pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests...legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights..." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

“Yesterday, though he likely doesn’t realize it (or care), Donald Trump just put [the Jordan-Israel peace] treaty at serious risk by suggesting that Jordan accept the single most important thing the treaty was meant to prevent.” abuaardvark.substack.com/p/jordan-rea...

In #LookingAhead2025, @jeffabramson.bsky.social says "Biden admin. has left President Trump a surprisingly low bar when it comes to improving U.S. arms trade restraint. Unfortunately and dangerously, the Trump admin. is likely to lower the bar even further." www.forumarmstrade.org/blog/predict...

“The watchdog added that people without Saudi nationality would not be allowed to own more than 49% of shares of the firms involved.”

4th SALAM Workshop: Decentering Arms in Middle East Security (DAMES) The DAMES Forum (September 2024), focused on solutions and community-building, gathered experts to ponder how stakeholders in and engaged with the MENA can reduce the reliance on arms as a cornerstone of their security strategies.

3rd SALAM Workshop: Impacts of Militarized Foreign Policy The third SALAM workshop (April 2024) gathered experts to discuss the impacts of militarized foreign policy, and in particular how it affects the emergence of different approaches to issues like migration and terrorism.

2nd SALAM Workshop: The Opportunity Cost of the Arms Trade The second SALAM workshop (September 2023) gathered experts to discuss how arms manufacturing and trade divert attention from or interact with other pressing conversations in and between North America, Europe, and the MENA.

1st SALAM Workshop: The Role of the Arms Trade The inaugural SALAM workshop (April 2023) gathered experts to discuss the role the arms trade plays in bilateral and multilateral ties between countries in North America, Europe and the MENA region.

🌍 Introducing PRISME: Rethinking Security in the Middle East 🌍 We’re excited to launch PRISME on Bluesky! 🎉 Our initiative fosters collaborative, non-militarized approaches to security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Here’s what we’ve been working on! 🧵👇