 This network was launched on June 5, 2008, by HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal.In March 2008 Hulsman coordinated efforts by the Center for Arab-West Understanding in a successful attempt to defuse the crises provoked by Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders' film “Fitna,” through organizing a visit of a delegation of Dutch church representatives and Muslim organizations to Egypt which was widely reported on in the Netherlands, asking Egyptian scholars to write reports explaining the Qur'anic texts that Wilders addressed and discussing the crisis on Egyptian TV and in public meetings at Cairo University.Cornelis Hulsman believes that tensions between the Arab world and the West, as well as those between Muslims and Christians, should never be reported about in isolation but efforts must be made to understand tensions in their proper socio-economical and historical contexts.