ELZA MAALOUF
KEYNOTE CONTRIBUTION
The Chaos Emerging from the Middle East
How to design an Integral plan to deal with refugees in Europe
The humanitarian refugee crisis that has inundated Europe’s borders for the last 3 years needs a long term solution. Political stability in the Middle East continues to elude regional and world leaders. International laws are being tested by internal pressure as the scale of this humanitarian catastrophe creates stress on each country’s internal structures.
Would these stresses lead to the disintegration of the European Union or would non-European refugees add to the rich mosaic of European culture? In this presentation Ms. Maalouf will provide working knowledge of the Memetic profiles of Syrian refugees, the Middle East and Islam in general. She will provide insights on conditions that create radicalization, and what needs to be done to pacify it. You will also gain insights into the modern history of Syria, and the dictatorial characteristics of the Assad family that lead to the Syrian civil war. You will also learn about the challenges facing the Middle East in the long term.
Bio
Elza Maalouf is an author, speaker and consultant. Pioneered the use of Spiral Dynamics and Integral Theory in the Middle East. Expert on the Memetic evolution of Islam.
Founder of the Center for Human Emergence Middle East and the Build Palestine Initiative. President of Integral Insights Consulting Group. Member of the Evolutionary Leaders. Prolific author whose work appears in the Huffington Post, Kosmos Journal, Spanda Journal, and Integral Leadership Review. She has spoken on the evolutionary nature of Middle Eastern values at the United Nations, The Israeli Knesset, Fatah Headquarters, and ITC 2015. Her book Emerge! is a guide to the future of the Mideast.
For more than a decade, Elza has worked closely with renowned geo-political expert, co-author of Spiral Dynamics theory Dr. Don E. Beck. Elza played a critical role in advancing Beck’s work and further defining the cyclical elements for large-scale emergence in societies. In 2008, Dr. Beck and Ms. Maalouf presented a proposal for a new branch of psychology to the American Psychological Association, called Large Scale Psychology – the design for the emergence of cultures.
