• Exploring main pillars of mitigating disasters and emergency planning, while ranking Middle East countries on a scale of sustainable development opportunities.
• Establishing a robust discussion between academic practitioners, on one side, and industry experts, on the other side, while addressing current and future trends of the different subthemes.
• Promoting GCC researches in relation to “National Resilience Planning”, while highlighting recent actions taken by those countries in related subthemes.
• Engaging effectively with group discussions and exchange of facts and ideas for the purpose of benchmarking with other countries worldwide.
• Proposing a clear framework for mitigating disasters and emergency planning in each of the co-related conference subthemes.

On the 14th and 15th October 2018, the Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at the University of Bahrain (UOB) the Sustainability and Resilience Conference. The conference aimed at:
• Exploring main pillars of mitigating
disasters and emergency planning, while ranking Middle East countries on a scale of sustainable development opportunities.
• Establishing a robust discussion between academic practitioners, on one side, and industry experts, on the other side, while addressing current and future trends of the different subthemes.
• Promoting GCC researches in relation to “National Resilience Planning”, while highlighting recent actions taken by those countries in related subthemes.
• Engaging effectively with group discussions and exchange of facts and ideas for the purpose of benchmarking with other countries worldwide.
• Proposing a clear framework for mitigating disasters and emergency planning in each of the co-related conference subtheme
Around 200 practitioners and experts attended the two-day event. Such a unique portfolio of academic universities and research institutions aim at establishing “Sustainability and Resilience Centre” on the long-term, which shall be mandated to act as a center of excellence as well as regional think tank providing applied projects and empirical researches in the domain of sustainable development and the co-related ends. The conference is a great opportunity for positioning Bahrain as a “Regional Hub” for sustainability and resilience, and provides participants with gigantic opportunities for knowledge sharing and experience exchange that would eventually accumulate in setting new policies and strategies.