April 26, 2006: James Prince, president of Democracy Council, will be participating on the panel “The Middle East: Beyond the Road Map,” at the Milken Institute Global Conference. Other panelists are: General Eival Gilady, CEO, The Portland Trust; Hiba Husseini, Managing Partner, Husseini & Husseini; Mohamed Rachid, CEO, Mena Investment Ltd.; Steven Spiegel, Professor, U.C.L.A.; Moderated by David Pollock, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc.

February 2006: Democracy Council is in the process of registering in Jordan and Israel as a local NGO.

February 14, 2006: Jim Prince will speak at a U.S. Senate briefing sponsored by Senators Richard Lugar and Ben Nelson on economic development issues in Palestine.

January 29 - 31, 2006: Jim Prince and Paul Findley participate in Enriching the Middle East's Economic Future conference, Doha, Qatar.

_{_{Jan 2006: Paul Findley, Democracy Council and Former President William Jefferson Clinton at economic conference in Doha, Qatar.}
October 21-23, 2004: Jim Prince presented his analysis of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan at the UC Irvine’s Fourth Annual Conference on Best Practices in Peacebuilding, entitled, Afghanistan and Iraq in Focus: Analysis from the Field Lessons in Collaborative Peacebuilding, University of California, Irvine.}