Executive Education
PGR’s executive education program is partnering with leading academic institutions, think tanks and government agencies to devise training courses for trainee and career diplomats, businesspeople and public sector officials, prestigious guest speakers and dynamic seminar-style discussions.
PGR aims to construct a global network of training courses with prestigious guest speakers and dynamic seminar-style discussions. PGR’s course offerings will encourage dialogue between the West and Global South on the most critical foreign policy, macroeconomic and security issues of our time.
PGR’s executive education program has initially focused on modules that shed light on Middle Eastern and European security issues. These modules are tailored to the needs and expectations of the public and private sector as well as to country-specific contexts.
Here are a two of the modules that PGR has in preparation:
Syria’s Road to Reconstruction and Democratization
This course explains the rapid-fire demise of President Bashar al-Assad, which confounded regional specialists and political scientists, and examines HTS’s current economic, foreign and security policies in Syria. It examines the aspirations of Israel, Iran, Turkey, the Gulf monarchies, Russia, China, U.S. and EU in Syria. It addresses Syria’s reconstruction process, which is heavily impacted by the future of the Caesar Act sanctions regime and the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis. The course will include a global array of guest speakers from academia, the diplomatic arena, think tank world, multilateral institutions and NGOs. It also prominently features the perspectives of Syrian experts and civil society, who are all-too-often underrepresented in Western discourse.
The Ukraine War and its Global Implications
This course provides a summative overview of the causes of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the course of the war and the prospects for peace and reconstruction in Ukraine. It is currently being marketed to clients in the MENA region, so it focuses extensively on the global implications of the Ukraine War and the conflict’s impact on security and regional power dynamics in the Middle East. The course will synthesize Western, Ukrainian, Russian and Global South perspectives to engage constructive debates and innovative discussions on one of the most pressing security crises of our time.