Accepting Diversities: Human Rights and the Challenges of Reconciliation
The conference aims at promoting the spirit of human rights awareness, raising and providing space for discussion among academics, practitioners, students of the ERMA programme and ERMA partner universities, Alumni (ACIPS) and civil society representatives
CONFERENCE AGENDA
29 April 2011
9:30
Registration of participants
10:00 – 12:30
Opening Plenary Session
Rectorate Representative
- H.E. Raimondo De Cardona, Ambassador of the Republic of Italy to Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Mr. Renzo Daviddi, Acting Head of the Delegation of EU to Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Amb. Gerhard Pfanzelter (CEI Secretary General)
The conference rationale
- Prof. Stefano Bianchini, university of Bologna
Key-note Speakers:
The Role of Diversities in the Future of Democracy
Mr. Leonidas Donskis, European Parliament
Rethinking Reconciliation in the context of Transitional Justice
Prof. Zoran Pajic, King’s College, London
Lunch break
14:00 – 17:00
Panel debates:
PANEL 1: ICTY Decisions and National Narratives: Facts vs. Myths
PANEL 2: Accepting the “Otherness”: Challenges for Education and Civil Society
PANEL 3: “Ethnizenship” and the Right of Non-belonging
18:00
Pravo Ljudski screening
Nowhere in Europe, Nigdje u Evropi - Kerstin Nickig, Germany, Poland, 2009, 89’, Best First-Time Director, 5th Human Rights Film Festival Pravo Ljudski
30 April 2011
10:00 - 13:00
Panel debates:
PANEL 4: Gender and Transitional Justice in SEE
PANEL 5: Rethinking journalism: The role of media in post conflict societies
PANEL 6: Challenging Homogeneity within Ethnic Communities: a room for dialogue
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:30
Main results of each panel
6 Moderators
15:30 – 15:50
Conclusions of the conference
Prof. Zdravko Grebo
15:50 – 16:30
Meeting the challenge: what Universities can do to involve civil society in teaching Democracy, Citizenship and Human Rights. Experience of the HSE and its partners
Prof. Nina Belyaeva, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
16:30 – 17:30
Building a New Governance: Giving a Voice to Regional Civil Society
Establishing a CEI Network of Civil Society Organizations
Adoption of the Statute & Action Plan; reporting
- Ambassador Gerhard Pfanzelter, CEI Secretary General
- Ms Mevlida Rovcanin, CEI Network coordinator;
- Ms. Jadranka Kalmeta, CEI National Coordinator (BiH)
18:00
Pravo ljudski screening
BURMA VJ: Reporting from a closed country - Anders Ostergaard, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, U.K, 2008, 85'
INFO
Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies University of Sarajevo
Zmaja od Bosne 8 - 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
e-mail: diversities2011@gmail.com
web: http://www.cps.edu.ba
