European Forum Cyprus
6 February 2009
Programme
Northern Ireland and Cyprus - what lessons can be learnt?
3rd Seminar 2008/2009 of the
European Forum Cyprus
Organised
in co-operation with
British Council Cyprus
(co-funded by the European Commission)
(and with the logistical support of Goethe-Zentrum Nicosia)
Nicosia, 7 – 8 February 2009
Venue:
Address:
Restaurant Château Status
12 Marcou Drakou Str., Nicosia
(opposite Ledra Palace Hotel)
Friday, 6 February 2009
Arrival of experts
19:30 Dinner for experts at the Restaurant Château Status
Saturday, 7 February 2009
8:00 Breakfast for experts and participants
9:30 Opening of the meeting
· Mr Christos Christophides, General Secretary of the Democratic Youth Organisation (EDON)
· Mr Erkut Sahali, Turkish Cypriot participant
· Mrs Claudia Luciani, Director of Political Advice and Co-operation, Directorate General of Democracy and Political Affairs, Council of Europe
· Mr Alain Bothorel, EU Programme Support Office, Unit Task Force Turkish Cypriot Community, Directorate General of Enlargement, European Commission
· Mr Richard Law, British Council Director, Cyprus
10:00 Northern Ireland – a conflict told from a Cypriot perspective
Introduction of the theme and moderator: Mr Erkut Sahali, Turkish Cypriot Participant
· Dr Neophytos Loizides, Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
Discussion
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 The way to the Good Friday Agreement
Introduction of the theme and moderator: Mr Christos Christophides General Secretary of the
DemocraticYouth Organisation (EDON)
Discussion
12:45 Lunch
14:15 The EU and Conflict Settlement in comparative perspective: Northern Ireland and Cyprus
Introduction of the theme and moderator: Mr Christos Christophides, General Secretary of the DemocraticYouth Organisation (EDON)
· Dr Etain Tannam, Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland)
Discussion
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 The Good Friday Agreement one decade later – an assessment
Introduction of the theme and moderator: Mr Uwe Muller, Directorate General of Democracy and Political Affairs, Council of Europe
Discussion
18:00 Bi-communal Barbecue
20:30 Dinner
Sunday, 8 February 2009
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Society in Northern Ireland – what has changed after the Good Friday Agreement ?
Introduction of the theme and moderator: Mr Uwe Muller, Directorate General of Democracy and Political Affairs, Council of Europe
Dr Colin Coulter, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Ireland)
Discussion
10:45 The Northern Irish experience – what could be relevant for Cyprus?
Round Table Discussion
12:30 Lunch
14:00 End of seminar
EXPERTS
Professor Arthur Aughey [presentation]
is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster in the School of Public Policy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Professor Aughey received his doctorate from the University of Ulster. He joined Ulster Polytechnic in 1979 as a lecturer in Politics. A member of the Political Studies Association and the editorial board of Irish Political Studies. He sits on the management boards of the Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies and of International Conflict Research (INCORE) at the University. He is a former member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, the British Council (Northern Ireland Committee) and of the Department of Culture Arts and Leisure Working Group on the Bicentenary of the Irish Act of Union (2000-1). He has published widely on Northern Ireland politics, British Conservatism and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. His recent publications include Nationalism Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State (Pluto Press 2001) which was nominated for the UK Political Studies Association WJM McKenzie Prize; Northern Ireland Politics: after the Belfast Agreement (Routledge 2005); and The Politics of Englishness (MUP 2007). He is also writing jointly with John Oakland a text for international students on Irish Civilisation which will be published by Routledge in 2010 and co-editing (with Christine Berberich) a volume These Englands to be published by MUP also in 2009. He has just completed a major study, coordinated by the Constitution Unit at University College London, which explored the constitutional futures of the United Kingdom until 2020 published as R. Hazell (ed) Constitutional Futures Revisited (Palgrave 2008). He is also involved in a collaborative project (funded by a grant from the Canadian High Commission in London) looking at the utility for British public life of the Canadian literature on inter-culturalism. Currently he holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to study the politics of Britishness, the results of which will be published as The British Question (Palgrave 2111). Politics and International Studies retains a distinctive character though its research strategy has modified in recent years. There continues to be a strong focus on Irish politics which links to larger questions of identity - gender, national, religious and ethnic. Indeed, the traditional concern with Irish politics has provided a unique opportunity to engage with larger questions of international significance, for example the concept of leadership in divided societies. Thus there has been an enlargement of research focus, especially as the Northern Ireland question changed after 1998.
Dr. Colin Coulter [presentation]
was born in Belfast and currently teaches in the Department of Sociology, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 20km west of Dublin. His academic interests include the social and political life of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, social theory, popular culture and especially popular music. He is the author of Contemporary Northern Irish Society: An Introduction (1999, Pluto Press) and the co-editor of The End of Irish History? Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger (2003, Manchester University Press) and Northern Ireland After the Troubles: A Society in Transition (2008, Manchester University Press). He has recently finished a book on the seminal 1980s pop band The Smiths which will appear later this year.
Dr. Neophytos Loizides [presentation]
received his PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in May 2005 and is currently a Lecturer in International Politics and Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University, Belfast. A former research fellow at the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, he also taught at the Politics Department at Princeton University. Skilled in negotiations and conflict resolution in deeply divided societies, he is currently completing a British Academy funded project entitled ‘‘Doves against hawks in the framing of peace policies and nationalist mobilization”. He has published articles in Security Dialogue, International Studies Perspectives, Southeast European Politics, Weltpolitik and Etudes Helleniques/Hellenic Studies, and also has forthcoming articles in Parliamentary Affairs, Nationalities Papers, Electoral Studies and chapters in I.B Tauris and Palgrave. His new research projects focus on human rights and conflict resolution models for ‘settler’ vs. ‘indigenous’ people conflicts as well as strategies for using direct democracy (referendums) in peace processes. His conflict resolution model on refugees and settlers in Cyprus was cited in the Economist Magazine in September 2008.
Ken Maginnis, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass
was educated at the Royal School Dungannon, and Stranmillis College in Belfast, he worked as a teacher for a number of years before joining the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1971. After leaving the Army with the rank of Major in 1981, he became Ulster Unionist spokesman on internal security and defence, and was that same year elected to Dungannon District Council, on which he sat for twelve years until 1993. In 1982 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly. At the 1983 general election he was returned to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament. Two years later, along with the rest of his Unionist colleagues, he resigned his seat in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement, but was re-elected in the subsequent by-election. Ken Maginnis was a strong supporter of the Good Friday Agreement, and stood down as an MP at the 2001 General Election, being created a life peer as Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, of Carnteel in the County of Tyrone that same year. Between 2001 and 2005 renewed his membership of Dungannon and South Tyrone District Council. He currently sits as a Cross-bencher in the House of Lords.
Dr. Etain Tannam [presentation]
is Lecturer in International Peace Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. Her main research areas are international organizations and conflict management, the European Union and conflict in Northern Ireland and the British-Irish relationship. She has published in various journals including:
”The European Commission and Conflict Regulation: a case of preference change”, Co-operation and Conflict, 42: 3: 337-356,
“The EU Model and Administrative Co-operation: case of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland”, Public Administration, 84: 2: 407-422.
“Cross-Border Co-operation Between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: Neo-functionalism Re-visited” British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 8: 2: 258-278.
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