One of the plenary sessions at the Fourth International Dialogue on the Transition to a Global Society was a "Dialogue on Politics." The panel included, left to right: Ambassador Tahseen Basheer, director of Egypt's National Center for Middle East Studies; Dr. Edy Kaufman, Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland; Ms. Lily Boeykens, Belgian Commissioner on the UN Commission on the Status of Women; Ambassador Paul-Marc Henry of France; Dr. Ernest Wilson, CIDCM; and H.E. Amine Gemayei, former president of Lebanon.