Peter Mandaville, a faculty member of George Mason University’s Department of Public and International Affairs, has been working with the Brookings Institution, one of Washington D.C.'s leading think tanks, on a range of activities relating to U.S. engagement with the Muslim world.
Mandaville convened one of five working groups around which Brookings built its 2010 Forum on U.S.-Islamic World Relations in Doha, Qatar--an annual summit that has emerged as the premier meeting space for senior government officials, business leaders, and social entrepreneurs concerned with ties between Americans and Muslim communities worldwide.
One of the aims of the 2010 Summit, which was addressed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator John Kerry, was to move towards to the realization of the vision contained in President Obama's landmark speech in Cairo last year. Mandaville's workshop, "Transformative Partnerships for U.S.-Muslim World Relations: Empowering Networks for Community Development and Social Change" gathered together leading thinkers and activists from a diverse range of countries including Senegal, Egypt, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Britain, and the United States. In July 2010, Brookings published a working paper authored by Mandaville based on this work.