Rapid Response Live Stream: A 'Historic Dawn' in the Middle East?

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Professor Lisa Anderson and Ambassador Daniel Shapiro join the Council's Cécile Shea to discuss the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
An Israeli hostage released from the Gaza Strip walks off a helicopter at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel
Oct
14
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Dr. Lisa Anderson
Daniel B. Shapiro
Cécile Shea
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Following Israel's cabinet approval of the US-brokered ceasefire and the hostage-prisoner exchange, President Trump traveled to Israel on Monday to proclaim an "end" to the war and to cohost the Summit for Peace in Egypt. Yet Israel and Hamas have not agreed on next steps in Gaza. So far, the ceasefire has gone accordingly, but how does one secure sustainable peace for one of the most complex geopolitical situations of our time? How will humanitarian aid and security assistance be guaranteed? And what roles are US, UN, and regional partners such as Qatar playing?  

Join us for our second Rapid Response Live Stream on the Israel-Hamas Phase One Deal. Columbia University’s Professor Lisa Anderson and the Atlantic Council’s Ambassador Daniel Shapiro join the Council’s Cécile Shea to consider these questions and more.  

About the Speakers
Dr. Lisa Anderson
James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations, Columbia University
Dr. Lisa Anderson
Dr. Lisa Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. She served as President of the American University in Cairo for five years, from 2011-2016. Prior to her appointment as President, she was the University’s provost, a position she had assumed in 2008. She is Dean Emerita of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, where she led the school from 1997-2007
Dr. Lisa Anderson
Daniel B. Shapiro
Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
Daniel B. Shapiro
Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative. From 2022 to 2023, he was the Director of the N7 Initiative. In his most recent government service, Shapiro was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from 2024 to 2025, and prior to that was Senior Adviser on Regional Integration in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He is a former US ambassador to Israel, having served in that role from 2011 to 2017.
Daniel B. Shapiro
Cécile Shea
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global Security and Diplomacy
Council expert Cécile Shea
Cécile Shea is a nonresident senior fellow on security and diplomacy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She is the president of Wakaru Communications and a special advisor to the Council’s Next Generation programs.
Council expert Cécile Shea
Regions Middle East and North Africa
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