Date: Monday 18 June

Time: 6pm

Venue: Grand Committee Room, House of Commons, SW1

RSVP: tim.gore@fabian-society.org.uk or 0207 227 4914

The Foreign Policy Centre, the Fabian Society and the Young Fabians are jointly holding a debate on the prospects for Middle East peace in the House of Commons.

Hilary Benn MP, International Development Secretary, will be among the speakers, alongside expert voices on the conflict and how to end it.

The event will launch the new Fabian freethinking paper How Peace Broke Out in the Middle East: A short history of the future by Tony Klug. The paper is generating an extraordinary and positive response from a wide range of commentators, academics and government and civil society voices:

"A brilliant idea and a dream that is not beyond reach. The conditions are ripe - what is lacking is the political will and leadership" - Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami, Former Israeli Foreign Minister.

"Tony Klug offers us a tantalizing vision of what could be. It may not happen but, if it does, this is how it will unfold" - Dr Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Former Palestinian negotiator and Senior Associate Member, St Antonys College, Oxford.

You can download a copy of the paper from:

http://fabians.org.uk/publications/freethinking/klug-middleeast-07/

The event will be held in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons on Monday 18th June at 6.00pm.

As space is limited, please RSVP to tim.gore@fabian-society.org.uk or 0207 227 4914.