Ambassadors meet for historic talks in US amid deeply fraught Lebanon-Israel tensions
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“Simon Mabon is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies at Lancaster University”
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Three independent web sources (SEPAD, The Foreign Policy Centre, and Civil War Paths) all confirm that Simon Mabon is a Professor/Chair in International Politics and the Director of the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University.
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— Professor Simon Mabon is Chair in International Politics at Lancaster University where he directs SEPAD and the Richardson Institute. Mabon is the author of a number of books on the contemporary Middl…
https://fpc.org.uk/author/simon-mabon/
https://fpc.org.uk/author/simon-mabon/
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— Professor Simon Mabon is Chair in International Politics at Lancaster University, where he is Director of the Richardson Institute, the UK’s oldest peace and conflict research centre; he is also Direc…
https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/conflict-security/events/202…
https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/conflict-security/events/202…
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— Project Director and Chair in International Politics.Professor Simon Mabon is Chair in International Politics at Lancaster University where he is also Director of the Richardson Institute, the UK’s ol…
https://www.sepad.org.uk/team/professor-simon-mabon
https://www.sepad.org.uk/team/professor-simon-mabon
“The central issue is that Israel is not confronting the Lebanese state, but rather Hezbollah, a hybrid political and militant group.”
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The claim that Hezbollah is a hybrid political and militant group is confirmed by multiple authoritative references, including Wikipedia, the Council on Foreign Relations, and a news cross-reference.
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— Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim political and military group in Lebanon which has been involved in a series of violent conflicts with Israel.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67307858
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67307858
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— Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid Israel's war on Lebanon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
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— Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon, where it has fostered a reputation as “a state within a state.”
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-hezbollah
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-hezbollah
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