European Forum Cyprus
ΕΥΡΩΠΑIΚΟ ΦΟΡΟΥΜ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ AVRUPA KIBRIS FORUMU
26 May 2011
Programme
Europe’s Mediterranean Neighbourhood – a changing environment
and
Reflections on democratic leadership
2nd Alumni Meeting of the European Forum Cyprus (EFC)
Co-funded by the European Commission
Istanbul, 26 – 28 May 2011
Venue
Address
Hotel Cartoon
Tarlabasi Bulvari No.: 36-38
34435 Taksim / Istanbul
Tel.: +90-(0)-212-2389328
Internet: http//www.cartoonhotel.com
Metro: Taksim
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Arrival of the experts and the participants
Transfer from airport to the hotel
Reception for experts and participants
Europe’s Mediterranean Neighbourhood – a changing environment
Friday, 27 May 2011
Venue:
Hotel Cartoon
9:00 Opening of the meeting Chairperson: Mr Jean-Louis LAURENS, Director General of Democracy and Political Affairs, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Welcome addresses by:
· Mr. Aristophanis GEORGIOU, Head of the Delegation of Cyprus to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Nicosia)
· Mr. Özdil NAMI, former Turkish Cypriot Special Representative for the European Union and the United Nations (Nicosia) (on behalf of Mr. Mehmet ÇAĞLAR, Representative of the Turkish Cypriot Community to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
· Mr. Jean-Louis LAURENS Director General of Democracy and Political Affairs of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
9:15 The changes in Europe’s Mediterranean neighbourhood: Trends and perspectives
Introduction by the moderator: Mr. Aristophanes GEORGIOU, Head of the Delegation of Cyprus to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Nicosia
Speakers:
Dr. Abdel Monem SAID ALY Chairman of the Board, Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies (Cairo)
Mr. Arad NIR Head of Foreign News Desk, Chief International Commentator, Channel 2 News, (Jerusalem)
Discussion
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Europe and the support to democratic development in the Arab world
Introduction by the moderator: Mr. Jean Louis LAURENS, Director General of Democracy and Political Affairs of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg Council of Europe
Mrs. Imène HAOUET University of Strasbourg
Prof. Dr. Ayhan KAYA Director of the European Institute, Bilgi University (Istanbul)
12:45 Lunch (Venue: Hotel Cartoon, Evita Restaurant (Roof top))
14:30 Welcome address by Mr. Dimitris KOURKOULAS, Director Enlargement Policy and Communication, Directorate General for Enlargement, European Commission (Brussels)
14:45 Cyprus – a bridge between Europe and the Middle East?
Introduction by the moderator: Participant
Open discussion
16:15 Coffee Break
16:45 Report on the 4th meeting of the 3rd Year of the EFC in Berlin (18 – 20 April 2011)
Participants
17:00 End of session
18:30 Dinner with Mr MevlĂĽt CAVUSOGLU, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
(Venue: Hotel Cartoon, Evita Restaurant (Roof top))
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Reflections on democratic leadership
Venue:
Hotel Cartoon
9:15 Democratic Leadership in post-conflict societies
Mrs Sonja LICHT President and Founder of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Democratic Political Leadership in the media age
Introduction by the moderator: Mr Özdil NAMI, Former Turkish Cypriot Special Representative for the European Union and the United Nations, (Nicosia) (on behalf of Mr Mehmet ÇAĞLAR, Representative of the Turkish Cypriot Community to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
Prof. Ludger HELMS Professor of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Discussion
12:30 Lunch (Venue: Hotel Cartoon, Rooftop Restaurant)
14:15 Istanbul – seventeen centuries of living together
Guided tour by Assistant Professor Haluk CETINKAYA, Archeology Department, Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul) and Mrs Bilge AR, Istanbul Technical University, Architecture Faculty (Istanbul)
(Transfer from the Hotel to the starting point of the tour by funicular Taksim – Kabatas and then tramway line N°1 Kabatas – Gülhane Park)
Starting point: GĂĽlhane Park
16:45 -17:15 Coffee Break at the Edebiyat Kiraathanesi (Divanyolu Caddesi N°14)
End Point: Eminönü
20:45 End of tour - Dinner on boat in the Golden Horn/Bosporus
23:45 Arrival at Kabatas Embankment
00:00 Transfer from Kabatas to Taksim by funicular
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Departure of experts and participants
EXPERTS
Dr Abdel MONEM SAID (Cairo)
Dr. Abdel Monem Said Aly is the President of Al Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies in Cairo. He has been a member of the Board at Al Ahram Institutions since 1999 to 2005 and the Director of Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo since 1994. He obtained his B.A. from Cairo University (1970) and his M.A. and PH.D in Political Science from Northern Illinois University, USA (1979 and 1982). He worked at the Ahram Center since 1975 as a researcher, senior researcher, head of the international relations research unit, and deputy director. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institute, Washington DC in 1987 and summer of 2004 and a research fellow at the Belfer Center For Science and International Affairs – Harvard University in 2003. He is a Senior Fellow in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University- USA. He worked as a political advisor in the Amiri Diwan of the State of Qatar between August 1990 and June 1993. He is a Senator in the Egyptian Shura Council – Consultative Assembly- starting from June 2007. In Arabic, he published books, articles and chapters in the world systems, Arab relations with the regional and global orders, European Integration, and the Arab Israeli conflict. In English, he contributed papers, published articles and chapters in the US, France, Sweden and Singapore on the Middle East Regional Security, Egypt’s political system, National Security and Arms Control Policies. He contributes opinions and commentaries regularly in main Arabic newspapers and other media forums in Arabic and in English. Since 1997 he has been the anchor for the Egyptian TV weekly program Wara Al Ahdath, Behind Events, the political analyst of Orbit program Ala Alahawa, On Air, since 2002, and an anchor for the program “Maa Al Mu’aradda”, With the Opposition, in the On TV season of 2008/2009.
Mrs Imène HAOUET, University of Strasbourg
Prof. Ludger HELMS (Austria)
Ludger Helms (* 1967, German) is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He studied Political Science and German Literature at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg, and the Free University of Berlin. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Freiburg, a PhD from the University of Heidelberg, and received his venia legendi from Humboldt University, Berlin. He has held affiliations at various international universities, including Heidelberg, Humboldt, Göttingen, Harvard, Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Central European University in Budapest, and the University of Tokyo. He will be a Visiting Professor at the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome, Italy, later this year. His research interests focus on political institutions and democratic governance in established liberal democracies. Helms is the author of nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of nine books, including Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors: Executive Leadership in Western Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies (ed., Routledge, 2009). He is currently working on several projects that will be published next year, including Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Revisiting Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Western Europe and Japan (ed., Edward Elgar, 2012), and Comparative Political Leadership (ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Ayhan KAYA, Professor of Politics:
Lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the European Institute; specialised on European modernities and identities, Euro-Turks in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, Circassian diaspora in Turkey, the construction and articulation of modern diasporic identities, and tolerance and multiculturalism; received his PhD and MA degrees at the University of Warwick; his latest book is Islam, Migration and Integration: The Age of Securitization (London: Palgrave, 2009 April); his other recent books are as follows, Contemporary Migrations in Turkey: Integration or Return (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, in Turkish, co-written with others), Belgian-Turks, Brussels: King Baudouin Foundation, 2008, co-written with Ferh at Kentel), Euro-Turks: A Bridge or a Breach between Turkey and the EU (Brussels: CEPS Publications, 2005, co-written with Ferhat Kentel,); Majority and Minority Politics in Turkey: Citizenship Debates on the way to the European Integration (Istanbul: TESEV, 2005, co-edited with T. Tarhanli); Roots and Routes: Migratory Processes in Turkey (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2007, co-edited with B. Sahin). His forthcoming book is Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey (London: Palgrave, 2013).
Ms Sonja LICHT, President and Founder of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Mr Arad NIR, Head of Foreign News Desk, Chief International Commentator, Channel 2 News (Jerusalem)
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