{"id":381867,"date":"2010-03-02T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pon.harvard.edu\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2010-03-02T13:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:07:59","slug":"the-india-pakistan-peace-initiative-the-role-of-geo-tv-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/381867","title":{"rendered":"The India-Pakistan Peace Initiative: The Role of GEO TV Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The India-Pakistan Peace Initiative: The Role of GEO TV Network<strong><span>&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9987 aligncenter\" title=\"chavez\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pon.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/posts\/india-pakistan-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mir Ibrahim Rahman, CEO, GEO TV Network<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Date: March 9, 2010<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Time:  4-6 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where:  CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1737 Cambridge Street, <\/span>Room N-262, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cambridge MA<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Contact Chair:  Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"border-color: #990000 #cc9900; border-top: 2px solid #990000; border-bottom: 2px solid #990000; text-align: left; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">Speaker Bio<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mir Ibrahim Rahman<\/strong> (MIR), CEO of GEO TV Network, has been at the helm of affairs of Pakistan&#8217;s fastest growing and most popular media brand for over 8 years. A former Goldman Sachs investment banker, specializing in media and telecom, Mir has overseen the launch and growth of GEO from a<br \/>\n5 member operation out of a hotel to a 2,500+ strong South-Asian content producer and broadcaster with 10 channels globally. GEO\u2019s mission is to create an enabling platform for thinking and questioning in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times confirms that \u201cGEO has changed the media landscape\u201d of the country. Mir graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from Babson College in Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pon.harvard.edu\/tag\/2000\/\">2000<\/a> and co founded GEO when he was just 25. His alma mater has dubbed MIR the \u201cRobin Hood of Information\u201d for Pakistan, helping bring ground-breaking consciousness to social political discourse. Mir is the youngest member of Young President\u2019s Organization in Pakistan, Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneur and Director of Mir Khalil ur Rahman Foundation. Mir and his wife, Sheena, are currently taking a study leave together at Harvard for their Masters in Political Administration and Education respectively.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"border-color: #990000 #cc9900; border-top: 2px solid #990000; border-bottom: 2px solid #990000; text-align: left; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\">About the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar Series<\/h2>\n<p>The 2009-2010 Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution series is sponsored by the Program on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pon.harvard.edu\/tag\/negotiation\/\">Negotiation<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nieman.harvard.edu\/\" >Nieman Foundation for Journalism<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksg.harvard.edu\/presspol\/\">Joan Shorenstein  Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcfia.harvard.edu\/\" >The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/publicdisputes\/\">MIT-Harvard  Public Disputes Program<\/a>, as well as Boston area members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org\/\" >Alliance  for Peacebuilding<\/a>. The theme for this year&#8217;s Kelman Seminar is &#8220;Reconciliation: Coming together after the shooting stops&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The India-Pakistan Peace Initiative: The Role of GEO TV Network&#8220; with Mir Ibrahim Rahman, CEO, GEO TV Network Date: March 9, 2010 Time: 4-6 PM Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu). 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