Lebanon Dialogue Initiative (LDI) is a civil society movement supported by various academic, business and civil society organizations, in particular, by Notre Dame University-Louaizé (NDU). It calls upon Lebanese in Lebanon and the Diaspora, as well as friends of Lebanon and people of good will, to support this Initiative to designate Lebanon as a universal Land of Dialogue and to establish an international center for dialogue in Lebanon in response to contemporary local, national and international disputes by contributing to conflict reduction, reconciliation, social justice, and peace building. By such international recognition, we believe that Lebanon will be able to secure the international solidarity it needs to recover its historic vocation—a vocation to which Lebanon still manages somehow to be faithful. Lebanon Dialogue Initiative (LDI) was initiated in June 2013 by the Honorable William Zard Abou Jaoude in cooperation with Dr. Edward Alam and Dr. Guita Hourani who selected Notre Dame University to lead this Initiative. The three were later joined by Dr. Salim Sfeir, Dr. Moise Khayrallah, Dr. Habib Jaafar, Dr. Youssef Rahme, Mr. Amin Nehme, Dr. Nick Kahwaji, Ms. Rouba el -Helou, Mr. Bahjat Rizk among others. LDI is housed at NDU and operates as a non-profit organization with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that governs its relationship with the University. Mr. Suheil Matar, Vice President for Public Relations and Communication at NDU, is the Spokesperson of LDI. See more at: http://lebanondialogue.org/Read.aspx?id=26#sthash.KE9CTOzx.dpuf