After training, negotiating, and preparing leaders from all Iraq for 2 years, yesterday on February 13-14, the first conference of Negotiating and Solving Problems was held in the Mam & Zin Hotel in Sulamnai. 


The conference was funded by Mercy Corps, a NGO from USA.  Grant Ennis, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of NINE, said that the point of having the conference is electing a body to represent the Iraqi people, and this body will be responsible for solving the economic, political, and social problems among the Iraqi people.


“There are different types of people in this conference; there are political members, social leaders, and so on,” added Grant.


The participants of the conference believed that this conference will successfully solve the Iraqi peoples’ problems.


Shex Wahed, a member of the conference, said “we are from different cites of Iraq, and we work together for the sake of succeeding the body, which will be chosen by the participants,” a member of Social Problem Solving in Duhok.


From the other side, Sa’ad Al-Khalidi, the Program Manger of NINE, said that the main center of Iraqi Center for Conflict Managing will be in Baghdad, and there will be branches in different cities of Iraq.


The members of the conference guaranty solving problems academically and successfully.Ala Kamal, the head of media of the conference, said “we have solved approximately 130 political issues in Iraq.”


The conference maintained for two days, and in the second day the body was elected, and the below 8 people were elected as the body;


1-      Dr. Salama Khafaji
2-      Madiha Al-Musawe
3-      Dr. Mahir Hamid
4-      JAfer Al- Musawe
5-      Dlshad Al-Zebare
6-      Rizgar Haji
7-      Sa’ad Salih Khaldi

Karwan Gaznay