GENEVA CENTRE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF
ARMED FORCES (DCAF)
CONFERENCE
Contemporary Security Sector Governance Issues
Moscow
April 8- 9 , 2005
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
April 8th, 2005
DCAF – ISKRAN
Venue:
ISKRAN, Moscow
Abstract:
DCAF, in cooperation with ISKRAN (Sergei Rogov) organises a set of lectures on the
following topics:
1) Armed Forces Professionalisation
(Karl Rambke, GCSP, Geneva)
2) Social/Legal Aspects of Armed Forces Service in NATO/EU context
(Ferenc Molnar, Zrinyi Miklos Defence Academy, Budapest)
3) Police Reform - the European context
(Marina Caparini, Senior Fellow, DCAF)
4) Armed Forces and the Media
(Marina Caparini, Senior Fellow, DCAF)
5) Security Sector Governance
Karl H. Rambke, (GCSP, Geneva) (DCAF Invitee)
6) Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector
Philipp Fluri, (Dep. Director, DCAF, Geneva)
7) Security Sector Reform in South East Europe
Philipp Fluri, (Dep. Director, DCAF, Geneva)
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Programme:
1000 – 1400
Dr. Philipp Fluri lectures at the Institute for USA and Canada's
ISKRAN graduate facility on Democratic Control of Armed Forces,
Democratic Control of Intelligence Services, and Security Sector
Reform.
ISKRAN graduate students are invited to the 'War on Terror'
conference on April 9.
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April 9th, 2005
DCAF – Hungarian House of Culture
Venue:
Hungarian Culture Center, Moscow Povarskaya str, 21,
Metro Stations Arbatskaya or Barrikadnaya.
Abstract:
DCAF, in cooperation with the Hungarian House of Culture/Moscow (Ilona Kiss) organises a
conference on “Security Sector Governance and the War on Terror” on April 9th 2005. Three
sessions will be dedicated to:
1) The War on Terror in the Euro-Atlantic Policy Discourse
David Spence (EU Commission Representative, Geneva) (DCAF Invitee)
Tatiana Shakleina (USA-Canada Institute, Moscow) (HCC Invitee)
(2) The War on Terror – Security Sector Governance and Military Implications
Karl H. Rambke, (GCSP, Geneva) (DCAF Invitee)
Agnieszka Gogolevska (Office of the Prime Minister, Warsaw) (DCAF Invitee)
Vladimir Baranovsky, (Deputy Director, IMEMO, Moscow)
Sergei Oznobishev (Institute for Strategic Assessments, Moscow)
(3) The Impact on Society and Media
Marina Caparini (Senior Fellow, DCAF)
Kirill Haratyan, (Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Gazeta.ru, Moscow)
Vladimir Socor (Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC)
Programme:
1030
Introductory Remarks: Dr. Philipp Fluri, Democratic Control of
Armed Forces (Geneva),
Keynote: Mr. David Spence, Senior Political Adviser, EU Mission to
Geneva
1100
Session 1: The War on Terror in the Euro-Atlantic Policy
Discourse
Participants:
Professor Pavel S. Zolotaryov, Deputy Director, The Institute of USA
and Canada Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Péter Tálas, Zrinyi National Defence University (Hungary)
Vladimir I. Batyuk, Ph.D., Deputy Director of the Center for North
Atlantic Securuty, the Institute of USA and Canada Studies (Russian
Academy of Sciences)
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Session 2: The War on Terror – Security Sector
Governance and Military Implications
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Participants:
Mamma N. Mammaev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma
Committee on Defence
Alexander N. Kostin, Vice-President for the World Anticriminal and
Antiterrorist Forum
Dr. Karl-Heinz Rambke, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
(Switzerland)
Dr. Alexander I. Shumilin, Director of the Center of the Greater
Middle East Conflicts
Dr. Agnieszka Gogolewska, Polish Ministry of Defence
Dr. Ferenc Gazdag, Teleki Institute of Foreign Affairs (Hungary)
1430 – 1500
Coffee and Snack Break
1500
Session 3: The War on Terror`s Impact on Society and
Media
Participants:
Valentin I. Varennikov, Army General, President of Russian League
for Human Dignity Defence and Security, MP Russian State Duma
Sulieta A. Kusova, Director General of the Center for Ethnic and
Confessional Issues in the Mass Media
Dr. Ferenc Molnár, Zrinyi National Defence University (Hungary)
Alexander S. Brod, Director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights
Ilya A.Nazarov,Post-graduate Researcher, the Institute of USA and
Canada Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences)
1800
Dinner
Additional Information:
The workshop is organised by DCAF, For general matters relating to the contents of the
workshop, please contact Eden Cole at e.cole@dcaf.org. For organisational and logistical
matters, including assistance in obtaining visas, please contact Ms. Claude Gosteli at
c.gosteli@dcaf.ch.
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