CAN EUROPE REDEFINE ITSELF?
Dear participants,
We live in deeply distressing times. Just imagine if there was, somehow, an hourglass in which the time for serious conversation, one prerequisite of responsible decisionmaking is slowly escaping. This is how we feel at this moment of utmost urgency, as we watch refugees from war-torn countries crowd the streets of the city that welcomes
you today. Issues and notions we face and discuss - radicalization, extremism, human right abuse, migration, and exclusion - are undoubtedly interconnected and lead one to
another in a causal way. We – as members of the international community – have not provided concerted answers, be it dealing with the refugee crisis on its source in Syria,
or at its con uences, in front of the (many) border fences being erected again across Europe. On the contrary, many countries have behaved sel shly, willing to continue to
enjoy the bene ts – of increased international exchange, globalization, European integration, and multilateral security arrangements – while not accepting to share the
cost.
Months before, we couldn't pull ourselves away as we watched the sovereign debt crisis escalate in Greece. Although efforts to reach a deal were at the center of attention, we
sympathized with many who have lost their savings, belongings, ultimately future – all this in a developed country, previously prominent Balkan example of success and
political transformation, which many tend to forget. Newcomer's (Syriza) challenge to the preserved order of things didn't last for long, yet it posed serious questions
Europe's nancial system will have to answer at some point. The language used was bitter; it spoke of historical injustices, drew distasteful parallels. Words “solidarity” and
“responsibility” were pitted against in this new ideological divide, while deep down we began feeling how something was very wrong with the relationship between
citizens and their elites.
Whether we live together, or simply live one next to another, is not the same. Such is the dilemma contained in the politically ammable issue of Muslim integration in
Europe, or European societies. Before radicalization/political emancipation and exclusion/inclusion dichotomies, comes the concept of political Islam, often overlooked. For
the rst time in ve years, with a genuine desire to understand, we devote an entire session to it.
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With cease re in effect and holding, preconditions for settling another con ict, which has preoccupied us in over a year, nally seem to be in place. War in Donbas has marked
the grand return of geopolitics, and has shaken the foundations of the post-Cold War order to the ground. Equipped with the hard-won experience of stabilizing the Western
Balkans, we ask ourselves how will con ict resolution play out in the months and years to come. And in this con ict's resolution, an important role is going to be played by the
OSCE – organization that is being chaired by a Western Balkans country for the rst time since the events of the 1990s, and exactly 40 years after the signing of the Helsinki
Final Act.
These crises have left a mark on the image of Europe as progressive, inclusive community of values; the one countries of this region are looking up to, eager to prove their
membership aspirations. We are not alone in our criticism; many, sometimes unfairly, have been throwing rocks at Europe these days, while aiming for national
governments.
After all, it is hard to distinguish the two, since same elites have been making all the decisions. Perhaps this is why we have focused on individual countries in this year's
program, as better understanding of one's reasoning should lead to durable and meaningful partnership.
Here we must mention two features of this year's program that make us especially proud. Building on the impetus provided by the Berlin Process, and only one month after
the Summit and the Civil Society Forum have taken place in Vienna, we are gathering some of the leading decision and opinion makers to discuss the prospects for
accelerating this region's integration into the EU. Last but not the least, a devoted friend of this region, Thorvald Stoltenberg, will become Belgrade's Honorary Citizen in the
historical City Assembly building.
On behalf of the organisers,
Sonja Licht
President
Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Maja Bobić
Secretary General
European Movement in Serbia
Sonja Stojanović Gajić
Director
Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
ABOUT ORGANISERS
The Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence is a non-profit and non-partisan organization devoted to capacity building of decision
and opinion makers who will steer Serbia towards European and Euro-Atlantic integration. Programme activities aim at institution
building, strengthening the human capital of political and public leaders, and regional cooperation. Founded in 2003, the BFPE is a part
of the Network of Schools of Political Studies operating under the auspices of the Council of Europe. www.bfpe.org
The European Movement in Serbia was founded in 1992 as a non-governmental, non-party and non-profit organization. This
independent institution gathers interested citizens, experts and volunteers that promote European ideas and values and advocate for a
democratic, modern and European Serbia and an open and inclusive society. EMinS has a long track record of implementing projects
fostering respect for human rights, building capacities, activating youth, and initiating informed public discussions on key issues. EMinS
has more than 600 individual members and over 15 collective members, as well as an EMinS Network which includes 14 local
Movements across Serbia. Since 1993, the European Movement in Serbia is a full member of the International European Movement.
www.emins.org
The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy is an independent think-tank which is advocating human, national, regional and
international security based on democracy and respect for human rights. The Centre works towards the consolidation of security sector
reform (SSR) and security integration of the Western Balkan states into the Euro-Atlantic community by creating an inclusive and
knowledge based security policy environment. It achieves these goals through research, public advocacy, education, bringing together
relevant stakeholders and creating networking opportunities. It was founded as the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) in 1997
with mission to advocate democratization of the security sector in Serbia. www.bezbednost.org
PARTNERS’ FOREWORD
The Robert Bosch Stiftung proudly supports the Belgrade Security Forum 2015.
The Balkan is a strategic region for Europe's security. Over the last decade, the region embarked on enormous transformation and accomplished impressive progress. Two countries
are now members of the European Union and others are working hard toward further EU integration. However, the ghosts of the past are omnipresent as con icts within and
between countries in the Balkans and in their direct vicinity put further stress on a still fragile region. The verdict on decades of international engagement is still out. Unfortunately, it
took the refugee crisis to put the Balkans back on international decision-makers agendas.
Since 2011, the Balkan Security Forum brings together regional and international actors and experts for debates on common challenges of regional and international security. As a
foundation we share the organizer's conviction that dialogue and cooperation about shared and divergent perceptions and interests are the key tools to build trust and provide
stability in the region. We applaud the BSF's persistency in engaging international decision-makers on behalf of the region's future and beyond against worldwide competition for
attention.
The Robert Bosch Stiftung wishes all participants of the Belgrade Security Forum fruitful discussions and insights.
Sandra Breka
Senior Vice President
Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH
Dear Partners, Colleagues, and Friends,
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Fifth Belgrade Security Forum, a signature regional event that brings the global security debate to the Balkans.
From the emergence of the Islamic State and the arrival of thousands of refugees seeking safety and security in Europe to the evolving crisis in Ukraine and tumultuous relations with
Iran, the world today faces challenges that are irrespective of national borders. These obstacles can only be overcome through the sharing of best practices and exchanging of
knowledge between international actors. This is why now, more than ever, the Belgrade Security Forum plays such an integral role in shaping the international security and foreign
policy dialogue.
The Belgrade Security Forum continues to provide a platform for policy dialogue geared toward changing the security paradigm in the Balkans and promoting the region's
increasingly constructive role in current European and global foreign and security policy debates. It uniquely underscores the value of regional expertise and builds a foundation for
the successful integration of the Balkan security community into mainstream discussions.
The Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD), a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), deeply values its partnership in this leading initiative. Since 2003, BTD has
actively supported democracy, good governance, and Euro-Atlantic integration in Southeastern Europe, and has connected local actors with European, American, and international
policymakers and institutions, building networks and consensus on regional issues from a broader, multi-stakeholder perspective. BTD remains committed to supporting civil
society and governments, and promoting cooperation and collaboration throughout the region.
On behalf of BTD and GMF, I thank you for your participation in what promises to be a vibrant and productive forum. Our special thanks go to the organizers and other partners of the
Belgrade Security Forum.
Sincerely,
Gordana Delić
Director
Balkan Trust for Democracy
PARTNERS’ FOREWORD
Dear participants, dear colleagues,
This year's Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) provides a timely opportunity to engage in a broad and
inclusive debate about the state of the European project today and its future. How should European
leaders engage in order to reestablish and secure peace and prosperity on our continent? How can
Europe provide a meaningful and effective contribution to peace, stability and development globally?
In this day and age con icts and crises will not remain contained and isolated to Europe's geographical periphery. We learned this two decades ago in the context of con icts that tore through the
Western Balkan region and it is a lesson that has to be re-learned as we face new daunting challenges: the vortex of nancial crisis, the unresolved con ict in Ukraine, the unpredictable aftermath of
the Arab Spring, the rise of radicalism and terrorism, the danger posed by global epidemics, or the unprecedented numbers of migrants seeking safety and hope on European shores.
Developing appropriate responses to these challenges requires a new pan-European political consensus which must be founded on our shared European values. In this regard, I would hope that
lessons from our common and not-so-recent past will not go unheeded.
While resolving difficult policy challenges within Europe, we must not lose sight of the role Europe must play in addressing insecurity, underdevelopment and con icts around the globe. A
dysfunctional security sector is often a direct cause or a contributing factor to these problems, and solving them requires a commitment to ensuring that the security sector is held accountable
within a framework of good governance, rule of law and respect for human rights. This is why the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces continues to provide practical support to
the international community's efforts to bolster security and development in many transition and crisis contexts, including in the Western Balkans.
I am therefore proud that DCAF is once more a strategic partner of the Belgrade Security Forum and will contribute to discussions at the Forum's fth edition. I view the BSF as a reaffirmation of this
region's commitment to playing an active role in the important and ongoing debate about ways to secure democracy, security and rule of law on the European continent.
Amb. Dr. Theodor H. Winkler
Director, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
Dear Colleagues,
While awaiting the 5th Belgrade Security Forum, we are reminded on a daily basis that our region must become part of the solution for Europe's emerging security challenges. The
Balkans is naturally sharing some of the most burning problems the continent is facing, and it is heavily affected by the European Union's policies and actions for solving these
problems.
The Belgrade Security Forum is a venue where policy discussions involve intellectual debates and where European and global issues shape the Balkan agenda. With this partnership,
the European Fund for the Balkans contributes to developing a relevant policy platform and to bridging the distance between policy actors of the region and of the EU and its member
states. In the context of the Western Balkans Summit held just a month ago in Vienna, the Belgrade Security Forum plays an important role in following up on the conclusions of the
Summit and launching discussions on the expectations and on lling the political promises with content and with substantial processes.
Since its inception in 2007, the European Fund for the Balkans has developed and implemented programmes aimed at professional and administrative capacity-building of young
government officials, at supporting initiatives allowing youth in the Western Balkans to experience and learn about Europe, at supporting individual and collaborative research and
policy development projects, and at creating a policy research platform, promoting European integration and the consolidation of democracies in the region. Today the Fund
recognises that for the region to remain on the EU course, the elites and the citizens will have to stay motivated to continue reform processes, and at the same time, the EU will have to
remain determined to nish business in the Balkans.
In that sense, the European Fund for the Balkans appreciates this partnership as an opportunity to promote its “Balkans in Europe” policy strategy and to initiate a discussion on the
role of the EU as a peace project in the Western Balkans.
Sincerely,
Hedvig Morvai
Executive Director
European Fund for the Balkans
PARTNERS’ FOREWORD
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DAY 1 September 30, 2015
8.30 - 9.00
Registration of Participants
9.00 - 15.30
ACADEMIC EVENT:
Does the EU Need a Foreign Policy?
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Beograd and Budva Rooms
9.00 - 9.05
Welcoming Speech
Filip Ejdus, Assistant Professor in Security Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade
9.05 - 9.30
Keynote Speech
Asle Toje, Research Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo - The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism in Europe
9.30 - 11.00
Panel 1: Rethinking EU's Foreign Policy
Beograd and Budva Rooms
Presenters:
Roozbeh B. Baker, University of Surrey, United Kingdom - Rethinking the European Union's Enlargement and Neighbourhod Policy: Lessons from California
Monika Sus, Hertie School of Governance, Germany - Inventors and Gatekeepers? The EU Member States and the European External Action Service
Raffaele Marchetti, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy - EU Foreign Policy by Proxy: Engagement with Civil Society
Ana Isabel Xavier, Nova University, Portugal - The EU's Security Actorness: Towards a New Foreign Policy Strategy
Discussant: Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia
Moderator: Rihards Bambals, University of Latvia, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert's Network
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 Panel 2: The EU and the Post-Soviet Space
Beograd and Budva Rooms
Presenters:
Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia - The Garbage Can Model of European Neighborhood Policy: The Case of Ukraine
Cristian Nitoiu, London School of Economics, United Kingdom - An Increasingly Geopolitical Relationship: The Evolution of Security Issues in the EU's Approach
towards Russia and the Post-Soviet Space
Hanna Shelest, NGO “Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation”, Ukraine, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert's Network- The Prospects of the European
Mediation and Peacekeeping in Ukraine
DAY 1 September 30, 2015
Panagiota Manoli, University of the Aegean, Greece, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert's Network - EU's Structural Power in Eastern European Neighborhood:
Can the Eastern Partnership Bring about a Change?
Discussant: Miloš Popović, Central European University, Hungary
Moderator: Alexander Graef, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert's Network
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Panel 3: The EU and the Western Balkans
Beograd and Budva Rooms
Presenters:
Krenar Gashi, Ghent University, Netherlands - The EU Foreign Policy as Mediation: The Case of Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue
Zhidas Daskalovski, University of Kliment Ohridski, Macedonia - Solving Problems in Europe's Backyard - Prevent Democratic Backslide in the Western Balkans or
Accept Dominance of Geopolitical Actors with Agendas Not Always Compatible with EU's Visions of the Region
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, Elizabethtown College, United States of America - Turkey and the European Union in Western Balkans: Strategic Partners or Competitors
Maja Kovačević, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia - European Neighborhood and Enlargement Policies: Let's Talk about (In)Coherence of
the EU External Action
Discussant: Dejan Jović, Professor of International Relations, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Moderator: Karsten Friis, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
16.00 – 16.30 Registration of Participants
16.30 - 18.00 Session 1: Kosovo and Serbia – How Much Longer Before Normality?
In partnership with Council for Inclusive Governance (cigonline.net)
Beograd Room
Speakers:
Marko Đurić, Director, Government of Serbia, Office for Kosovo and Metohija
Samuel Žbogar, EU Special Representative in Kosovo
Gordana Čomić, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Serbia
Enver Hoxhaj, Chair, Foreign Relations Commission, Assembly of Kosovo
Ilir Deda, Member of Assembly of Kosovo (Self-Determination Movement)
Dukagjin Gorani, Chairman, Common Voice, Kosovo
Ljubiša Mijačić, Researcher and Advisor on Project Development, Zubin Potok
Moderator: Alex Roinishvili Grigorev, President, Council for Inclusive Governance
DAY 1 September 30, 2015
16.30 - 18.00 Session 2: Corporate Security - The Challenge of Good Management
In partnership with M:tel a.d. Banja Luka
Budva Room
Speakers:
Zoran Keković, Faculty of Security, University of Belgrade
Dejan Pavlović, Deputy Director of the Function of Corporate Security, NIS – Petroleum Industry of Serbia
Miro Miskin, Head of Security and Internal Control, Security and Internal Control, M:tel a.d. Banja Luka
Moderator: Gorislav Papić, Editor, Radio Television of Serbia
16.30 - 18.00 Side Event: Book Presentation - “The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia”
Presenters:
Jozef Bátora‚ Comenius University, Slovakia
David Spence, Senior Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics, European Institute, United Kingdom
18.30 - 20.30 The Berlin Process in Belgrade: The EU as a Peace Project Revisited in the Western Balkans
Round table discussion in partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
Crystal Ballroom
Speakers:
Florian Bieber, Professor of Southeast European Studies, Director, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz
Selmo Cikotić, Dean, American School of Government, American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Christian Danielsson, Director General for Enlargement, DG NEAR, European Commission
Alex Roinishvili Grigorev, President, Council for Inclusive Governance
Ramadan Ilazi, Deputy Minister of European Integration, Government of Kosovo
Mladen Ivanić, Chairman of the Presidency, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dejan Jović, Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Remzi Lani, Executive Director, Albanian Media Institute
Sonja Licht, President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Leon Malazogu, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Democracy for Development, Tirana
Danijel Mondekar, President of the Committee for European Integration, the Croatian Parliament
Hedvig Morvai, Director of the European Fund for the Balkans
Moderator: Ivan Vejvoda, Senior Vice President of the German Marshall Fund
DAY 1 September 30, 2015
20.30 - 21.00
Registration of Participants
21.00
Evening Sessions (simultaneously organized smaller sessions, off the record)
Session 3: Here to Stay? The Rise of Inequality and Persistence of Poverty
Budva Room
Speakers:
Milica Uvalić, Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy
William Bartlett, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Tobias Flessenkemper, Senior Associate Researcher am Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
Moderator: Jelena Žarković Rakić, Director, Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN), Belgrade, Serbia
Session 4: Countering the Tide of Radicalization: In Search of a Comprehensive Response
In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces (DCAF)
Beograd Room
Speakers:
Alastair Crooke, Founder and Director, Con icts Forum
Florian Qehaja, Executive Director, Kosovar Centre for Security Studies
Andrej Rupnik, Senior Advisor, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed (DCAF) Ljubljana
Franz-Stephan Gady, Senior Fellow, East-West Institute
Moderator: Karsten Friis, Senior Adviser, Head of the Research Group for Security and Defense, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Session 5: Towards a Sustainable Future – Gender Equality in Inclusive Societies
Kopaonik Room
Speakers:
Shelley Inglis, Head of the Governance and Peace-Building Team, UNDP
Simona Miculescu, Director, United Nations Office in Belgrade
Elisabeth Nauclér, Member of Parliament, Finnish Parliament
Wallace Chwala, Winner of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and Brookings Institution Speech-Writing Contest of the Secretary General of the United
Nations
Moderator: Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Serbia
DAY 1
Academic Event
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Welcoming Speech
Filip Ejdus is Assistant Professor of Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. His training is in International
Relations at Belgrade University, Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is closely involved with the
security policy community as a board member of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, he is academic coordinator at the Belgrade Security
Forum and the co-chair of the Regional Stability in South East Europe Study Group at the PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security
Studies Institutes. From 2015 to 2017 he will be Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol.
Keynote Speaker
Asle Toje (D.Phil, b. 1974) is Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, and a lecturer at the Institute for Political Science at the
University of Oslo. Toje's research is focused on the intersection of security studies and European studies. Since Toje graduated from Cambridge
University in 2006 he has published widely on European security and foreign policy. Among his last works are America, the EU and Strategic
Culture: Renegotiating the Transatlantic Bargain (London, Routledge); The European Union as a Small Power: After the Post-Cold War (London,
Macmillan, 2010) and Neoclassical Realism in Europe (Manchester University Press, 2012). He has also authored two volumes on the economic
and political crisis in Europe (in Norwegian).
DAY 1
Academic Event
Panel 1: Rethinking EU's Foreign Policy
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Presenters:
Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker is currently a Lecturer at the University of Surrey (School of Law) in the United Kingdom where he teaches courses on public
law, international law, and multi-method research design. Dr. Baker received his legal education at the University of Illinois (JD) and the University of
California at Berkeley (LLM), and completed his training as a Political Scientist at the University of Southern California (PhD). As a Legal Scholar, Dr.
Baker's areas of expertise centre mainly on international law, comparative constitutional and criminal law and socio-legal studies. As a Political
Scientist, his research is focused on courts & judicial politics in a comparative context, democratic transitions, political parties, transnational relations,
organizational theory and qualitative & multi-method research design. Dr. Baker has held previous academic appointments in the United States at
Pepperdine University (School of Law), as well as in Bosnia-Herzegovina at the University of East Sarajevo (Faculty of Law). Prior to entering academia,
Dr. Baker worked in the Senate Opposition Research Office of the Progressive-Conservative Party of Canada and later in the Department of Justice
Resident Legal Advisor's Office of the U.S. Embassy in Serbia. In addition to English, Dr. Baker speaks Persian, Serbo-Croatian, and some French.
Monika Sus is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance and works in the Dahrendorf Forum, which is a joint initiative by the Hertie
School, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Stiftung Mercator. Within the project, she collects and coordinates the research
results of ve regional working groups in order to develop ideas for a European foreign policy worthy of that name. Before coming to Berlin, she was an
assistant professor at the DAAD-funded Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. She has been
granted scholarships by the Hertie Foundation, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Academia Europea de
Yuste, the Natolin European Centre and the National Science Centre of Poland. She has been a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in
Florence, at the Centre Canadien d'études Allemandes et Européennes at the University of Montreal and the European Union Centre of Excellence at the
University in Pittsburgh. She has published widely on European foreign policy, the Eastern Partnership, Europeanisation and policy advising.
Raffaele Marchetti is assistant professor in International Relations at LUISS. His research area concerns global politics and governance, transnational
civil society, political risk, and democracy. He also acts as an external expert for the European Commission and other public/private institutions on
issues of governance, public policy, civil society, and peacebuilding. In 2015 he produced one of the rst MOOCs on IR entitled From International
Relations to Global Politics for Iversity. Among his most recent publications: La politica della globalizzazione (Mondadori, 2014); Contemporary Political
Agency: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013, co-ed. with B.Maiguashca), Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (Cambridge
University Press, 2011, co-ed. with D.Archibugi and M.Koenig-Archibugi), Civil Society, Ethnic Con icts, and the Politicization of Human Rights (United
Nations University Press, 2011, co-ed. with N.Tocci), Con ict Society and Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2011, co-ed. with N.Tocci) and Manuale di
politicainternazionale (UBE, 2010, co-au. with F.Mazzei and F.Petito).
DAY 1
Academic Event
Panel 1: Rethinking EU's Foreign Policy
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Presenters:
Ana Isabel Xavier is an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies Department in Nova University (Lisbon, Portugal) and a Research Fellow in the
Portuguese International Relations Institute (IPRI). She holds a PhD in International Relations (European Studies), from the University of Coimbra,
Portugal, with a thesis entitled The European Union and Human Security: a crisis management global player in search of a strategic culture? For several
years she has been a member of the European Commission's Team Europe developing training activities on European Studies, Human Rights, NonFormal Education and Citizenship. Her main research areas and publications cover the European Union, Security and Defence, Human Security, Human
Rights and Globalization. She attended the National Defence Youth Course in 2004, the Civilian Crisis Management Course in 2009/2010 and the
National Defence Course in 2011/2012 in the Portuguese National Defence Institute. Ana Isabel Xavier is frequently invited to speak at conferences
and lectures by civilian and military institutions, and appears on radio and TV programmes. She is the head of the European Studies section of the
Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP) and a member of the Portuguese Security Studies Network (PT-SSN), the Academic Association for
Contemporary European Studies (UACES), the International Studies Association (ISA) and the European International Studies Association (EISA). In
2015 she was awarded the Marshall Memorial Fellowship by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Discussant:
Jozef Bátora is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research areas include
changing dynamics in diplomacy in the context of European integration, EU foreign policy, the development of transatlantic security architecture and
the role of institutions in political life. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and was previously visiting professor at FSI,
Stanford University, senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at ARENA, University of Oslo. His work has been published inter alia in
the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, the Journal of International Relations and
Development, the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Relations and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is the coordinating editor
of the Journal of International Relations and Development.His most recent book is The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy PostWestphalia (with David Spence, Palgrave 2015).
Moderator:
Rihards Bambals is currently a PhD candidate in Political Sciences at the University of Latvia. He is completing a doctoral dissertation on the
comparison of society's resilience to disasters in different countries based on their levels of human security. Previously, Rihards graduated from the
University of Latvia, obtaining BA and MA degrees in Political Sciences, specialising in International Politics. He has also studied at Brussels Free
University (Belgium). In 2013, for the excellence of his research, Rihards received the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (SYLFF) from the
Tokyo Foundation. His main academic interests are: the development of the human security concept (and the measurements of security); disaster
research; security and foreign policy analysis (focused on the Euro-Atlantic area, the EU and NATO); and modern warfare. Parallel to his academic work
Rihards is a career diplomat, working at the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is currently responsible for NATO and European security policy
issues.
DAY 1
Academic Event
Panel 2: The EU and the Post-Soviet Space
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Presenters:
Jozef Bátora is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research areas include
changing dynamics in diplomacy in the context of European integration, EU foreign policy, the development of transatlantic security architecture and
the role of institutions in political life. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and was previously visiting professor at FSI,
Stanford University, senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at ARENA, University of Oslo. His work has been published inter alia in
the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, the Journal of International Relations and
Development, the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Relations and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is the coordinating editor
of the Journal of International Relations and Development.His most recent book is The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy PostWestphalia (with David Spence, Palgrave 2015).
Cristian Nitoiu is a Dahrendorf Post-Doctoral Fellow in EU-Russia relations and Ukraine at LSE IDEAS, the London School of Economics. He is an
expert on EU and Russian foreign policy, EU-Russia relations, Eastern Europe, international relations, the European public sphere or international
political communication. Before LSE he held research positions at Trinity College Dublin and the College of Europe. He has recently edited (together
with Nikola TTomić) a special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society entitled “Europe, Discourse, and Institutions: Challenging the
Mainstream in European Studies”. His book EU Foreign Policy Analysis: Democratic Legitimacy, Media, and Climate Change was published in June by
Palgrave. He is currently working on a book on EU-Russia relations during Putin's third term and a project on the European Parliament's approach
towards the post-Soviet space and Russia.
Hanna Shelest is a Curator of the Ukrainian Peace building School and Head of the Board of the NGO “Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation”. She is
also an Editor-in-Chief of the analytical journal UA: Ukraine Analytica. Prior to this, she served for more than 10 years as a Senior Researcher at the
National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine, Odessa Branch. Her previous professional experience also includes the press
service of the Governor of the Odessa region, lecturing at Odessa National University and Regional Coordinator for the European Business Association.
She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In
2014 Dr. Shelest served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Her main research areas are con icts resolution, security
and cooperation, especially in the Wider Black Sea Region and the Middle East, and Ukrainian foreign policy. She has published more than 50
academic articles and more than 100 articles published in the media in Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Sweden, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Lithuania,
Switzerland, the USA, the UK and Romania. She is regular presenter at international conferences and a commenter for the media. Dr. Shelest was a
Rotary Peace Fellow in 2010, a Black Sea Young Reformer in 2011, a John Smith Fellow in 2012 and a Marshall Memorial Fellow in 2015/2016.
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Academic Event
Panel 2: The EU and the Post-Soviet Space
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Presenters:
Panagiota Manoli is Assistant Professor in Political Economy of International Relations at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of
the Aegean (Greece); and Research Associate at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). She has been Policy Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Southeast Europe Project), Washington D.C. (2010), Director of Studies and Research at the
International Center for Black Sea Studies - ICBSS (Athens, 2005-2009), Secretary of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly
of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (Istanbul, 2000-2004). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
(Routledge/Taylor and Francis). She has graduated from the School of Law, Economic and Political Sciences, University of Athens and holds an MA and
PhD from the University of Warwick where she studied as an Alexandros A. Onassis scholar. Her research interests and publications focus on
comparative regionalism, security and development, European Neighborhood and Black Sea politics. Panagiota Manoli is the author of the
monograph The Dynamics of Black Sea Subregionalism (Ashgate, 2012).
Discussant:
Miloš Popović is a Research Associate in a Minerva Project that is jointly run by the Central European University (CEU) and Columbia University, New
York. Previously, Popović worked as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the Central European University (CEU), where
he taught qualitative research design and methods for MA students, and co-headed the Con ict & Security Research Group (ConSec). Popović received
his MA degree from the Central European University, International Relations and European Studies department, and his BA degree from the Faculty of
Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. His research areas are proxy wars, the cohesion and fragmentation of militant groups, violence in civil
con icts, civil-military relations in developing countries, and ethnic con icts, primarily focused on the Balkans, Central Asia and Kashmir. In his PhD
dissertation, Popović examined conditions under which externally supported rebels turn against their state sponsors by deconstructing the notion of
rebel “defection” into de ance, desertion, and switching sides. Previously, Popović carried out research in India and devised a novel dataset on the
sponsorship of rebels (SOR), covering the period 1968-2012.
Moderator:
Alexander Graef is a research assistant and PhD candidate in political science at the University of St. Gallen Switzerland. He received his BA in
Cultural Studies from the European University Viadrina and holds MA degrees in International Relations from the Free University Berlin and the
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). In the past, he worked on projects for the German Council on Foreign Relations, the
German Embassy Moscow, the Institute of Scienti c Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation. In 2011 he was the head of the German Delegation at the Y8-Y20 Summit in Paris. In 2014 he participated in the Egon Bahr Fellowship
Program. His doctoral thesis deals with German-Russian expert networks in foreign and security policy. His main research areas include Russian
foreign policy, International Relations theory and humanitarian interventions.
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Academic Event
Panel 3: The EU and the Western Balkans
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Presenters:
Krenar Gashi (born 1982) is a Kosovar researcher, currently pursuing a PhD in political science at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He is the founding
director of the Institute for Development Policy (INDEP) an in uential think tank in Kosovo that focuses on democratisation, European integration and
economic development. Before establishing INDEP, he led the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED), another in uential
think tank. Having started his career as an investigative reporter, Gashi worked for numerous Kosovo and international media. He was the Kosovo
editor for Balkan Insight, founded the only English-language newspaper in Kosovo - Prishtina Insight - and covered Kosovo for the Financial Times. He
studied sociology at the University of Pristina, holds an MA in Media and Communication from the Kijac Institute (Kosovo) and an MA in European
Politics (with distinction) from the University of Sussex (UK). His research areas include EU foreign policy and international relations, democratisation
and the politics of transition. His PhD research is focused on conceptualising EU foreign policy in the Western Balkans.
Zhidas Daskalovski holds a PhD from the Political Science Department of the Central European University. He has published numerous scholarly
articles on politics in the Southeast European region, as well as co-edited books including: Understanding the War in Kosovo (Frank Cass: London,
2003) and Ten Years after the Ohrid Framework Agreement: Lessons (to be) Learned from the Macedonian Experience, (CRPM and Friedrich Ebert
Stiftung: Skopje 2012). A professor and one of the most prominent political scientists in the country, he is Director of the Council of Europe supported
School of Public Policy “Mother Theresa”. Dr.Daskalovski was awarded the 2008 Young Scientist of the Year from the Macedonian Academy of Science,
was proclaimed one of the “Distinguished Persons” of Bitola by the University of Kliment Ohridski and has received a number of distinguished research
fellowships including the Lord Dahrendorf Fellowship at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, the Macedonian Studies Fellowship at the School of
Slavonic and East European Studies and the Social Science Research Council/Ethnobarometer Fellowship at the University of North Carolina. He has
written country reports on Macedonia for Freedom House's Nations in Transit, the Open Budget Index, the Global Integrity Report, the Bertelsmann
Transformation Index, the UNDP People Centred Analysis and the UN Human Development Report.
Oya Dursun-Özkanca (PhD University of Texas, Austin) is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies Minor at
Elizabethtown College, PA, USA. Her research areas include Turkish foreign policy, South East Europe, transatlantic security, the European Union and
peace operations. She is the author of a number of scholarly articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Civil Wars, European Security, the
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, French Politics, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
and various edited volumes. Her rst book, The European Union as an Actor in Security Sector Reform: Current Practices and Challenges of
Implementation was published by Routledge in 2013. Her second book (co-edited with Dr. Stefan Wolff), External Interventions in Civil Wars: The Role
and Impact of Regional and International Organisations was published by Routledge in 2014. Dr.Dursun-Özkanca was a LSEE Visiting Fellow at the
London School of Economics in Summer 2013 researching on South Eastern Europe. She is currently on sabbatical leave, thanks to a sabbatical
research grant from the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University, working on a book on Turkish foreign policy in the Western Balkans.
DAY 1
Academic Event
Panel 3: The EU and the Western Balkans
In partnership with Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Presenters:
Maja Kovačević is an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Sciences (International Studies Department). Her courses
are on European Integration – Developments and Problems, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, the European Union as a Global Actor and EU
Enlargement Policy. Previously she was a researcher at the Institute of Economic Sciences, head of the European Integration Office of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, and a researcher on several Serbian and international projects. Her educational background is in International Relation and
European Integration: she holds a BA in International Relations (University of Belgrade, Serbia), an MA in European Law and European Integration
(University of Nancy, France) and a PhD in European Studies (University of Belgrade, Serbia). Her research eld: governance of the EU, EU
enlargement, the EU and the Western Balkans and, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. Selected list of articles: "EU Financial Assistance for
Western Balkans - CARDS, IPA: lessons for Serbia", "European Integration between Enlargement and Deepening", "In the Bermuda Triangle? The
European Union's Enlargement policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy and Un nished States in the Western Balkans", "the European Union's
Financial Assistance and Serbian Absorption Capacities, Challenges", "European Neighbourhood Policy: Failed Expectations?".
Disscussant:
Dejan Jović is Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb, where he is the head of the
Department for International Politics and Diplomacy. He nished his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE, 1999),
afterwards he continued his work at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2000) and Stirling University in Scotland (2000-2010). He is
the author of Yugoslavia: A State That Withered Away (2003, American edition in 2009), editor of Slobodan Milošević: Road to Power (alongside
Momčilo Pavlović and Vladimir Petrović, 2008), Theories of International Relations: Realism (2013) and Liberal Theories of International Relations
(2014). From 2010 to 2014 he was Head Analyst for the President of the Republic of Croatia and since 2013 he has been Chief Editor of the academic
journal Croatian Political Science Review.
Moderator:
Karsten Friis is a Senior Adviser and Head of NUPIs Research Group on Security and Defence. He holds a Cand. Polit. in Political Science from the
University of Oslo and a MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics. Friis previously worked for the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, as well as for the Norwegian Armed Forces in Oslo and in Kosovo. His main area of
expertise is security and defence policies, international military operations, civilian-military relations, cyber security as well as political
developments in the Western Balkans.
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Session 1: Kosovo and Serbia – How Much Longer Before Normality?
In partnership with Council for Inclusive Governance (cigonline.net)
Sixteen years after the end of the Kosovo con ict and two years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, the normalization of relations between
Belgrade and Pristina is still questionable. Both Serbia's and Kosovo's EU perspectives are highly dependent on the success of the agreement between the
two governments which should lead to the opening of the EU negotiating chapters in Serbia's case and visa liberalization for Kosovo. However, two years
have been necessary for the two parties to agree upon provisions originally part of the Brussels Agreement. The obstacles to normalizations have been
many – the status of the Association of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo, energy and telecommunications and ownership of companies undergoing
privatization in Kosovo have been some of the major issues – and others seem to appear. Serbia is intent on preventing Kosovo's membership of different
international organizations – especially UNESCO and Interpol. The Oliver Ivanović case has risen to the fore along with the (resolved?) creation of a Special
Court. However, the further we distance ourselves from the level of high politics the better the situation seems. Trade between Serbia and Kosovo – still a
"gray market" to a considerable extent – has been nally recognized by the elites as an important contributor to growth, with chambers of commerce
establishing cooperation. To this end, meetings between business people from both sides have occurred in the recent past; lost connections are being
reestablished and the new ones created. The economy can de nitely contribute to normalization on the large scale but can it be the only driving force of
this process?
Discussion topics:
1. How to speed up the process of normalization between Belgrade and Prishtina?
2. Can the populations afford to wait for another 5, 10 or 15 years?
Speakers:
Marko Đurić is Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. He was born in Belgrade in 1983, and graduated
in law in 2010. In June 2012 he was appointed as Foreign Policy Adviser to the President of the Republic of Serbia, coordinating top officials' activities
regarding the international reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, and the preparation of the official Serbian platform for BelgradePristina negotiations in 2012. Many of his important duties also involve daily diplomatic communication and strategic policy planning. Before his
appointment, Đurić was a researcher at the Belgrade Institute for Political Studies. He has been a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since its
foundation in 2008, and previously had not been a member of any party. He sits on the Main Board and Presidency of the SNS.
Samuel Žbogar was appointed Head of the EU Office in Kosovo on 21 December 2011 by the EU High Representative/EC Vice-President Catherine Ashton
and is the European Union Special Representative in Kosovo by decision of the Council of the EU on 25 January 2012. Mr. Žbogar is a former Slovenian
Minister for Foreign Affairs and a diplomat with 24 years experience in key strategic postings, including China, the UN in New York, and Washington DC. As
state secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affair and EU political director, he led preparations for Slovenia's OSCE presidency, headed Slovenia's negotiation
team for NATO accession, and was a member of Slovenia's EU negotiation team. Mr. Žbogar was born in Slovenia in 1962. He graduated in Political ScienceInternational Relations at the University of Lubljana. He speaks English, Italian, Croatian/Serbian, and French. Mr. Žbogar is a keen runner. He is married
and has three children.
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Session 1: Kosovo and Serbia – How Much Longer Before Normality?
In partnership with Council for Inclusive Governance (cigonline.net)
Gordana Čomić has served as Vice-President of the Serbian Parliament since 2008. She graduated as a physicist and lectured in Physics at the Faculty
of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad until 1999. She has been active in the Democratic Party since its foundation, and has held numerous party positions,
including sitting on the City Board of the Novi Sad Democratic Party, president of the election headquarters of the Novi Sad DP and President of the
Provincial Board for DP Vojvodina from 1998 to 2001. Čomić served as Vice President of the Democratic Party from 2001 to 2004 and she has been a
deputy in the Serbian Parliament since 2000. She became President of the Women's Forum and a member of the Presidency of the Democratic Party in
2006. She speaks English, German and French. At the OSCE PA 23rd annual session in Baku, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Gordana Comic was
elected rapporteur of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Third General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions, for the
second time.
Enver Hoxhaj has been a key politician and diplomat in Kosovo over the past ten years. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee
in the Parliament of Kosovo, where he leads Kosovo's parliamentary diplomacy. Previously Dr. Hoxhaj was Minister of Foreign Affairs (2011-2014)
where he played a vital role in consolidating and strengthening Kosovo's bilateral and multilateral diplomacy. Dr. Hoxhaj was the rst Minister of
Education (2008-2010) after Kosovo's independence, playing a crucial role in the modernization of the education system and infrastructure.
Furthermore, Dr. Hoxhaj was a member of the Kosovo delegation in the UN-led talks on de ning Kosovo's nal status (2005-2007) and played a key
role during the state-building process before and after Kosovo's independence. Before this he was a professor at the University of Pristina and a long
standing human rights activist. He holds a PhD in history and politics from the University of Vienna and is author of numerous scholarly articles, books
and other publications. Dr. Hoxhaj is uent in English, German and Serbo-Croatian.
Ilir Deda has over a decade experience of work in national and international public and non-governmental institutions. His work has in uenced
decision making and policy development both at national and international level regarding Kosovo. He has extensive knowledge of national, regional
and international affairs, governance, security and institution-building. Deda is Member of Parliament of Kosovo, Member of Committee for European
Integration; (from the center-left opposition Movement for Self-Determination/Vetevendosje); and is a guest Lecturer at the ISPE College in Pristina,
teaching on Governance and EU. Ilir Deda has the been Executive Director of Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED). He has
also served as the Chief of Staff and Senior Political Advisor to President Atifete Jahjaga. Prior to joining the Office of the President, Deda was one of the
co-founders of the FER party, which joined Vetevendosje Movement at the end of March 2011. Deda was with KIPRED since 2008, rst as the Research
Director, and afterwards as the Executive Director. He has worked as a policy specialist for UNDP HQ in New York; researcher at the Graduate Program in
International Affairs of the New School; researcher at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; was a political advisor to the rst Kosovo Prime Minister
(Bajram Rexhepi ); and was an Analyst for the International Crisis Group in Kosovo. He is also the author of 2008/09/10 Kosovo reports of Freedom
Houses' Nations in Transit annual publications. Ilir Deda has a Master of Arts from The New School University (New York City) and a Bachelor of Arts in
Political Science. He has also published over a dozen papers both in Kosovo and abroad.
DAY 1
Session 1: Kosovo and Serbia – How Much Longer Before Normality?
In partnership with Council for Inclusive Governance (cigonline.net)
Dukagjin Gorani (PhD) is a sociologist by training and a former journalist and editor with a range of Kosovo media. A Kosovo Albanian from Pristina, he
has been an active participant in public and political scene since the early 1990s. Dr. Gorani's professional background envisages media expertise as well as
socio-political analysis of events and processes surrounding Kosovo and the region. Presently, other than teaching at college, Dr. Gorani is also the
executive director with the Liberal Democrat Centre, a Pristina-based think-tank and serves as the chairman with the Common Voice Platform for Con ict
Prevention and Community Advocacy. He holds a doctorate from the Cardiff University (UK) in the eld of cultural theory and discourse analysis.
Ljubiša Mijačić has been engaged as an architect in infrastructure development programs in Kosovo funded by national institutions, USAID, EU and other
donor agencies the total value of which exceeds €20 million. Today, though Mr Mijačić still works on these programs and projects he is more involved in
fund raising than actual implementation. As an assistant to the mayor of Zubin Potok from 2004 to 2008, he was responsible for the acquisition of a total of
€2.4 million from the NIP grant scheme. When compared to the actual population on the territory those assets made the municipality of Zubin Potok the
primary bene ciary of this program within the Republic of Serbia. During the last 8 years, his career has shifted toward economic development as he works
as advisor and consultant for various clients and organizations in Kosovo. In 2010 alongside the NGO KRC from Zubin Potok, he was the author and project
manager of the rst ever project under the IPA EURED grants scheme in northern Kosovo. This project provided a way forward for the northern Kosovo
NGOs and entrepreneurs. He was the author of several other IPAs and grants awarded in northern Kosovo and has been hired by national and international
organizations to write project proposals. After completing his Master studies in the USA, he was invited to join the EWG (Environmental Working Group)
and to work for the USAID Mission in Kosovo as an External Environmental Advisor on the environmental compliance procedures for the all USAID
implementing partners and programs in Kosovo. Since February 2014 Mr Mijačić has worked as the UNDP advisor to the Mayor of Zubin Potok. His program
portfolio focuses on the integration of northern Kosovo municipalities into the Kosovo system.
Moderator:
Alex Roinishvili Grigorev is the Founding President the US-based Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG). He is also a Professor in International Peace
and Con ict Resolution at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania. Educated in history and international affairs and an expert on Balkan politics and ethnic
relations, Prof. Grigorev, among his other CIG duties, facilitates discussions among political and ethnic leaders in the Balkans and leads programs on
fostering democratic governance and minority inclusion (more information about CIG is available at www.cigonline.net). Prior to heading CIG, he was the
Executive Director of the Princeton-based Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) where he developed and conducted programs on inter-ethnic relations in
Southeast Europe and the former Soviet Union. PER helped to develop the rst minority legislation in a number of post-Communist countries. Before
joining PER Prof Grigorev was an analyst at the Calvert Emerging Europe Fund in New York City. He has been working in the Balkans since 1991 and is the
author of numerous articles, essays, and reports on Balkan politics and inter-ethnic relations published in the United States and Europe. Prof. Grigorev
lectures in the US, Europe, and the Middle East on ethnic con ict, governance, and international relations.
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Session 2: Corporate Security - The Challenge of Good Management
In partnership with M:tel a.d. Banja Luka
A survey undertaken in 2012 showed how senior managers saw cybersecurity, violence in the workplace, an organization's resilience and the way it
selects and screens its employees as the top security risks they face. With individuals hacking their way into corporate networks, insecure employees
(overworked, afraid of losing their job, not integrated properly into their work environment) and volatile markets this comes as no surprise. Fears old as
corporations themselves - of theft and fraud - have not, of course, been washed away by the advent of technology, quite the opposite.
Faced with their stakeholders' expectations, corporate boards must turn to professionals. And they need help. For instance, a recent (2014) survey found
that "55% of directors do not believe a public company board can ever fully anticipate the different aspects of risk in the current corporate environment,
particularly emerging risks like cybersecurity and social media". It is no wonder, given their primary concern has become daily risk oversight, lling-in
top positions and running government affairs. One company that has managed to implement a demanding standard aimed at averting exactly this
threat in the region of the Western Balkans is M:tel, with the ISO 27001 standard on information security management.
Another concern is the "professionalization" of a gure that is still new in this region: the corporate security manager. How to achieve greater recognition
of this actual need is one of the questions our panel will ask.
Discussion topic:s
1. What are the challenges of good management in one system of corporate security (examples from practice)?
2. What are the principal issues (organizational, legal, from the standpoint of human resources) in Western Balkan countries, in the eld of corporate
security?
3. What is the relationship between subjects of national, private and corporate security?
4. How can international standards of security be implemented in corporate sector?
Speakers:
Zoran Keković graduated (1988), nished MA (1993) and PhD (1997) at the Faculty of Civil Defense (currently, Faculty of Security Studies) University of
Belgrade. He worked as an instructor/assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Security Studies 1991-1997, where he was appointed assistant professor of the
Systems of Security and Protection in 1997 and Introduction to Security Theory in 1999. In 2004, he took the position of associate professor of Security
Systems and Corporate Security, as well as the position of the head of the postgraduate certi cate studies in Crisis Management (in 2005). Since 2009 he
has the position of a full professor. He was also a teacher of Jurisdiction and Methods of the Police Force in the Unit for Research and Development of the
Internal Affairs College in Zemun from 1998 until 2004. He is engaged as a lecturer at the interdisciplinary MA courses “European and international
policies and crises management” and„Terrorism, Organized Crime and Security“, organized by the University of Belgrade. He is a visiting professor at the
Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad, and the Faculty of Security and Protection, Banja Luka, Republika Srpska. He is the Chairman of the commission for
social security standards ISO/TC23 of the Serbian Institute for Standardisation, an expert of the ISO Directorate (since 2008), and a collaborator of the
German Institute for Standardisation (DIN).
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Session 2: Corporate Security - The Challenge of Good Management
In partnership with M:tel a.d. Banja Luka
Dejan Pavlović was born in 1973 in Sombor, Serbia. He is the Deputy Director of the Function for Corporate Security in NIS, dealing with economic
security and the Director of the Directorate for Corporate Security in NIS. He has nished the Military Gymnasium and the Military Academy in
Belgrade, where he graduated in 1995. Since 1995 until 1998 he held the duty post of a commander in the Yugoslav Army, after which he transferred
to the Military Intelligence Service of the Yugoslav Army and the Military Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Serbia. His
corporate career began in 2008, when Mr. Pavlović started working at NIS at the position of the Director of the Directorate for Risk Management. After
the formation of NIS Gazpromneft in 2009, he participated in the organization and formation of the Function for Corporate Security which soon
became a substantial support to the business and he soon took over as the Director of the Directorate for Corporate Security. He has been proclaimed
the best corporate security manager in 2012 by the Serbian Association of Corporate Security Managers.
Miro Miskin has been the Head of Security and Internal Control at the telecommunication company M:tel, Banja Luka since 2013. Since 2014, he has
been working as the Manager of Information Security in accordance with the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Standard. Between 1997 and 2013, he acquired
experience working at the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Srpska, ending his career in the government as an Assistant Commander for
Operative-Educational Affairs with the function of Deputy Commander of Special Police Forces of the Republic of Srpska.
Moderator:
Gorislav Papić began his career as a journalist in NIN weekly magazine while at studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences. After eight years in press
and numerous published articles, he moved to the national broadcast company Radio Television of Serbia. He started as a part of TV broadcast “Oko”,
but soon succeeded Antonela Riha as a host of another broadcast "Raspakivanje". Papić is now returned to the “Oko”as a host and author.
DAY 1
Side Event: Book Presentation - "The European External Action
Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia"
The European Union is a transformational policy challenging diplomacy as an institutionalized order.
This book "The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia" reviews the conceptual origins of the EU's diplomatic
apparatus and explains its institutional history, whilst raising key questions about the new organization of foreign policy and diplomacy beyond
individual European states.
It reviews the nature of state-level adaptation to wider management and administrative trends and analyses the legal and practical evolution of
the EU's 'European External Action Service'.
The book addresses the far reaching implications of all these issues for the 'Westphalian' diplomatic order, and questions whether the institutions
and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is
paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic organisation.
Overall, the book provides the most comprehensive and most profound set of analyses to date of the change dynamics in the EU's diplomatic
order towards post-Westphalian patterns.
Jozef Bátora and David Spence, The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia, Palgrave 2015
Speakers:
Jozef Bátora is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research areas include
changing dynamics in diplomacy in the context of European integration, EU foreign policy, the development of transatlantic security architecture and
the role of institutions in political life. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and was previously visiting professor at FSI,
Stanford University, senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at ARENA, University of Oslo. His work has been published inter alia in
the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, the Journal of International Relations and
Development, the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Relations and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is the coordinating editor
of the Journal of International Relations and Development.His most recent book is The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy PostWestphalia (with David Spence, Palgrave 2015).
DAY 1
Side Event: Book Presentation - "The European External Action
Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia"
David Spence is currently a visiting fellow at the LSE European Institute and was previously David Davies Fellow in the LSE's International Relations
department. Formerly an EU diplomat, his last post was as minister counsellor in the EU delegation to the United Nations in Geneva. In 2006 he was
special EU advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Representative for the Elections in the Ivory Coast. Earlier he had been secretary of the European
Commission task force for German uni cation, head of training for the Commission's External Service and advisor on European Security and Defence
Policy and relations with NATO. Until his move to Geneva in 2003 he had also been Commission representative in the G8 and EU Council Terrorism
Working Groups. Before his work for the European Commission David Spence was head of European Training at the UK Civil Service College and
Conference adviser at the FCO's Wilton Park Conference Centre. Earlier he was a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and at the Sorbonne
(Paris III). He holds a BA in International Relations from Sussex University, MAs in politics from Nice University and Sciences Po, Paris, and a B.Phil in
Politics from Oxford (St. Antony's College). He has published widely on European affairs. In addition to various articles on the Commission and the EU,
on CFSP, and on effective multilateralism, he is the co-editor with Prof. Brian Hocking of Foreign Ministries in the European Union: integrating
diplomats, Palgrave, 2006. His The European Commission, Harper, 3rd edition 2006 is a standard reference work on the European Commission. His
edited The EU and Terrorism, Harper, 2007 and The EU and Security Sector Reform, Harper, 2008 are the only books on their themes. Amongst his recent
publications are 'EU Governance and Global Governance' in 'Global Governance and Diplomacy: worlds apart' published by Palgrave in 2008, and edited
by A. Cooper, B.Hocking and W. Maley and in the December 2011 issue of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy “The Early Days of the European External
Action Service: a practitioner's view”. His latest book, on the European External Action Service, co-edited with Professor Jozef Batora, was published by
Palgrave in August 2015. David Spence is uent in French and German and has a minimal command of Spanish and Norwegian. He owned and
managed two restaurants in London in the 1980s .
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Session 3: Here to Stay? The Rise of Inequality and Persistence of Poverty
In recent years income inequality has emerged as a political issue par excellence. Piketty's history of wealth and income inequality in Europe and the
United States Capital in the Twenty-First Century has helped fuel the debate. In the words of the UN Secretary General, "as inequalities widen, the social
fabric of our societies is both stretched and strained; this often leads to a downward spiral of economic and social uncertainty and (...) unrest". The US
President warned how the American income gap has become "the de ning challenge of our time" and a "fundamental threat". Finally, the World
Economic Forum ranked rising income inequality as the world's top priority for 2015.
Income inequality is related, or leads to a state of relative deprivation, which has an impact on political behavior and security. People compare their
situation to that enjoyed by other individuals or groups; there is, after all, a rising global middle class which is more aware of the wealth and consumption
habits of the middle classes in more developed countries. These people are aware of their predicament and feel deprived, and ultimately frustrated.
History teaches us how extremists of all kinds are always quick to tap in on frustration.
In the words of Brenda Seaver, there are four security implications of this perception of inequality: (1) the migration crisis; (2) a permissive environment for
transnational organized crime; (3) the rising challenges to global order; and (4) the facilitation of recruitment for extremist (in her words: terrorist) groups.
In this regard, the EU nds itself in a paradoxical situation. Long seen as an island of political stability and economic progress, in the aftermath of the
Eurozone crisis and especially, Greece's sovereign debt crisis, the EU has faced income inequality, depravity and poverty unimagined just a decade ago.
How it responds to this challenge will be carefully watched by countries around the globe. In inequality we nd the foundation of most current ideological
divide.
Discussion topics:
1. What are the key drivers of inequality and poverty today?
2. Are societies of great inequality failed states of the future?
3. Can Europe provide sustainable solutions, within a model that is globally applicable?
Speakers:
Prof. Milica Uvalić has been Professor of Economics at the University of Perugia, Italy, since 2002. Formerly she was a member of the UN Committee for
Development Policy (2008-2012), a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC (2009), Assistant Minister in the Federal
government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2001), President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies and President of the
Italian Association for Comparative Economic Systems. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her research
and teaching areas are in comparative economics with a focus on the Balkans, Central Eastern Europe and the European Union. Recent publications
include: FDI into transition economies: Are the Balkans different? (2014 - with S. Estrin), The Economics of Transition, Vol. 22; The Social Consequences of the
Global Economic Crisis in South East Europe (co-edited with W. Bartlett, 2013), London, LSE; “Why development patterns differ: the Czech and Serbian models
compared” (with J. Svejnar) in M. Aoki (ed) (2012); Institutions and Patterns of Economic Development, (Palgrave, Macmillan); Serbia's Transition –
Towards a Better Future (2010, Palgrave Macmillan (Serbian translation, 2012)).
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Session 3: Here to Stay? The Rise of Inequality and Persistence of Poverty
William Bartlett is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is
alumnus of the Universities of Cambridge, London, Liverpool and Belgrade. His current research focuses on explaining the barriers to socio-economic
development in the Western Balkans through research on labour markets, education systems, skill mismatches, and social exclusion. He is the author
of Europe's Troubled Region: Economic Development, Institutional Reform and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans, Routledge, 2008, and
numerous articles in refereed journals such as the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies, European
Planning Studies, Social Policy and Administration, and the Journal of Development Economics. He is co-editor of the Croatian Economic Survey and
past President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES). He currently acts as coordinator of the LSEE Research Network
on Social Cohesion in South East Europe.
Tobias Flessenkemper is Managing Director of elbarlament, a Berlin-based independent technical assistance organisation providing innovative
governance solutions in transition situations. Mr Flessenkemper is also a Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre internationale de formation
européenne (CIFE) in Nice where he focuses on EU external relations and security policy. He also serves on the Board of the German South East Europe
association, Munich.
Moderator:
Jelena Žarković Rakić is Assistant Professor of Public Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Serbia and director of the
Foundation for the Advancement in Economics (FREN), one of the leading research think-tanks in Belgrade. Her research covers public and labour
economics, with a particular focus on income inequality and poverty, optimal taxation, labor supply and the efficiency-equity analyses of tax-bene t
systems. She has been involved in a number of research projects supported by the EC, DFID, CIDA and SDC. She has been a World Bank consultant on
the labour market, social policy and gender inequality. Ms Rakić has published in journals such as Post-Communist Economies, the International
Journal of Microsimulation and Economic Annals. She was the editor of the Serbian edition of Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century. She has
participated in numerous congresses, seminars and workshops in Serbia and abroad.
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Session 4: Countering the Tide Of Radicalization:
In Search Of Comprehensive Response
In partnership with Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
With the devastating results of the recent wars in the Middle East, and with the apparent rise of radical politics in Europe, a new modality of social
exclusion is beginning to take hold in both social contexts, that of radicalized youth that join the ranks of extremist organizations, such as the Islamic
State. As widespread as this threat might seem at times, and given that such extreme views attempt to dissolve the foundations on which the modern
social state has been built, the challenge lies in preventing youth from falling victim to the corruptive in uences of fundamentalist organizations, as
well as the rehabilitation of those that have already been exposed to them.
With ISIS taking an ever-increasingly violent approach to promoting their political ideas, major international political actors nd themselves
scrambling, faced with economic and political constraints, in their search for a comprehensive strategy. Due to the growing costs of military
intervention, the world at large needs to systemically rethink its approach towards the issue of radicalization.
The war against ISIS is both a military war and a war of ideas, with large numbers of youth leaving for Syria, Libya and Iraq, it is becoming ever more
important to employ not just military resources against the Islamic State, but also to rebuild the politics of hope, which would create a space for the resocialization of the participants of the con icts, and disrupt the spread of extremist ideas.
Discussion topics:
1. Which are the critical enablers of radicalization in the societies of Europe and the Middle East?
2. What characterizes the social spaces in which radicalization develops?
3. Which elements would a strategy have to entail in order to be considered comprehensive?
4. What kind of commitment is needed in order to defeat the Islamic State?
Speakers:
Alastair Crooke was formerly advisor on Middle East issues to Javier Solana, the EU Foreign Policy Chief. He was also a staff member of Senator
George Mitchell's Fact Finding Committee that inquired into the causes of the Intifada (2000-2001) and was adviser to the International Quartet. He
facilitated various cease res in the Occupied Territories. Mr. Crooke has had 25 years experience working with Islamist movements, and has extensive
experience working with movements such as Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East. He is a
member of the UN's Alliance of Civilizations Global Experts. His is author of Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution (2009) and he is a
frequent contributor to the international press, most recently with the Huffington Post in particular.
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Session 4: Countering the Tide Of Radicalization:
In Search Of Comprehensive Response
In partnership with Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
Florian Qehaja is the Executive Director of the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS). He also serves as Kosovo Team Leader of the Centre for Integrity in
the Defence Sector (CIDS) of the Norwegian MoD. Mr Qehaja is author of several scienti c publications in the security eld as well as author/co-author of
local and international publications regarding the eld of security, rule of law and regional cooperation. Furthermore, he is an international consultant
cooperating with leading international governmental and non-governmental organizations. He is frequently invited by the Western Balkans media to
comment on the security affairs. Mr Qehaja has been awarded prestigious scholarships such as the OSI/Chevening and Fulbright scholarships. He is currently
concluding his PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Security Studies), University of Ljubljana. His PhD research is on "Local ownership and
security sector development in Kosovo". He received his MA in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom) and a
Bachelor's Degree in Law at the University of Pristina.
Andrej Rupnik is Assistant Director and Project Manager at DCAF Ljubljana office. As a security expert he has gained extensive experience during his
professional career in the Slovenian police and national intelligence services. He concluded his studies in Criminal Law at the University of Ljubljana, and
was subsequently awarded an LLM degree. He has extensive experience and expertise in the area of criminal investigations and international police
cooperation, specializing in criminal analysis, data management and IT in the area of criminal investigation. During a career of more than thirty years in law
enforcement he has held several management and senior management positions within the General Police Directorate, the Uniformed Police
Administration, the Police Academy and the Criminal Police Directorate. He has managed several national projects on organizational restructuring and
advised on strategic planning. He was Head of the International Cooperation Sector within the Service of the Director-General of the Police, and gained
signi cant experience leading the national delegation to the CATS Committee within the Council of the EU. From 2007 to 2010, he was Director of the
National Intelligence and Security Agency of the Republic of Slovenia. He speaks Slovenian, Serbian/Croatian, English and some German.
Franz-Stephan Gady is a Senior Fellow with the EastWest Institute. His areas of interest include civil-military relations, countering violent extremism,
revolution in military affairs, and cyber diplomacy. Mr. Gady is also an Associate Editor with The Diplomat. He has reported from a wide range of countries
and con ict zones including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. His writing and photos have appeared in the International New York Times, Foreign Policy
Magazine, The National Interest, Vice News, the Middle East Eye, The Christian Science Monitor, Pro l, Der Standard and Die Presse among other
publications.
Moderator:
Karsten Friis is a Senior Adviser and Head of NUPIs Research Group on Security and Defence. He holds a Cand. Polit. in Political Science from the University
of Oslo and a MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics. Mr Friis has previously worked for the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, as well as for the Norwegian Armed Forces in Oslo and in Kosovo. His main area of expertise
is security and defense policies, international military operations, civilian-military relations, cyber security, as well as political developments in the Western
Balkans.
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Session 5: Towards a Sustainable Future –
Gender Equality in Inclusive Societies
With 2015 slowly coming to a close, it is the perfect time to look back on the Millenium Declaration (2000), and its implications for the creation of a
truly inclusive global society, based on a synthesis of peace, security, development and human rights. Gender, as an aspect which permeates all the
Millenium Development Goals certainly represents one of the key challenges to any society lacking a more equitable distribution of social and
material resources.
The question posed to this panel is: How can gender become a mainstay for the development of future societies, and how do international
stakeholders see their role in attaining this goal? Perhaps some of the answers to this question lie in the different approaches taken to the issue.
As the world becomes more interconnected, it is in these overlappings of international stakeholders' policy and vision that we can see a new world
emerging, and gender will be one of the key parameters when measuring future development.
Discussion topics:
1. How does gender equality contribute to development?
2. What stands in the way of a truly inclusive society?
3. What is the difference between the EU and the UN approach towards development?
4. In what way is the post-MDG agenda complementary to the European integration process?
Speakers:
Shelley Inglis is the United Nations Development Programme Regional Cluster Leader of Governance and Peacebuilding for Europe and CIS, and
previously Policy Advisor and Team Leader of the Rule of Law, Access to Justice, Security and Legal Empowerment of the Poor Team in the Democratic
Governance Group. Prior to UNDP, she was in the Rule of Law Unit in the Office of the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General working on systemwide policy coordination and coherence in the eld of rule of law. She has worked previously on security governance, human rights and rule of law for
the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, and the United Nations Development
Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Her experience includes providing guidance and support to UN eld presences in con ict-affected and post con ict
environments including, among others, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cote d'Ivoire, Georgia, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan, and Timor Leste. She has also drafted
numerous reports of the Secretary-General and policy and guidance materials for the Organization, and conducted a wide range of workshops and
training in her area of expertise. Prior to joining the United Nations, Shelley worked extensively on the Balkans, CIS and Turkey, in particular with Save
the Children US (1994-1995), and Amnesty International Secretariat and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (19992002) in Kosovo (UNSC 1244). She has also practiced public interest family and criminal law in the United States. She is member of the New York Bar
and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of Columbia School of Law (JD) and Cornell University (BA), she serves as an adjunct
professor in political science and human rights at Barnard College of Columbia University.
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Session 5: Towards a Sustainable Future –
Gender Equality in Inclusive Societies
Simona Miculescu has been the Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade since July 2015. Prior to this, she was
the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations between 2008 and 2015. During her 24year diplomatic career, she has served as Spokesperson for the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Senior Media Advisor to the Minister (1993 and
1999), as Director of the Press Department within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1994 and 2008), as Press Secretary of the Romanian Embassy in
Washington D.C. (1994-1998), and as Senior Public Information Officer at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo (1999-2000). In 2006 and 2007, as part of Bearing
Point, she acted as Senior Advisor for Public Outreach to the Government of Iraq, within a USAID-funded project. Between 2000 and 2004, she was Foreign
Policy Adviser to the President of Romania (with the rank of minister), becoming the rst woman in the Romanian diplomatic history to be granted the rank
of Ambassador.
Elisabeth Nauclér, Member of Parliament 2007-15 Finland. Born in Sweden and trained as a lawyer, the rst woman to represent the Åland Islands' in the
Finnish Parliament. Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Constitutional Committee, the Employment and Equality Committee, and representing the
Åland Islands in the Grand Committee (European affairs), and deputy member of the Finnish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. She has been
a civil servant with the Government of Åland, Parliament of Åland and Secretary General to the Åland Delegation of the Nordic Council, and before becoming
Member of the Finnish Parliament she served as the Director General to the Government of Åland. From 1993-96 Civil Affairs Officer with the UN
peacekeeping operation in former Yugoslavia. Chairperson of the Human Rights Group in the Finnish Parliament, Member of the Finnish Delegation to
CEDAW, UN and the Women Caucasus.
Wallace Chwala is a winner of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and Brookings Institution speech-writing contest of the Secretary General of
the United Nations. He also received the Global United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and Bayer Young Environmental Leader Envoy award.
Furthermore, he won awards from the United Nations Educational, Scienti c and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Goi Peace Foundation, the World
Bank and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a Fellow at the Global Civics Academy and a member of the United Nations Academic Impact.
Moderator:
Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano has been appointed as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for the Republic of Serbia in October
2013. Before this appointment, Irena's career was with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). She was Director, Department for Migration
Management from 2010-2013, and during 2009, was Deputy Chief of Staff, at IOM HQ in Switzerland. From 2007-2009, Irena was Regional Representative
for South East Asia, in Thailand, and from 2003-2007, Chief of Mission for Thailand. She was appointed as Chief of Mission for Austria from 2000-2003 and
during the same period, had responsibilities as Coordinator for Central Europe and subsequently, became Regional Representative for Central Europe.
Irena's other assignments include: Coordinator for Central Europe and Austria, Austria (1999-2000); Coordinator for Central Europe, Austria (1998-1999);
Desk Officer for Central Europe, Switzerland (1996-1998); Programme Officer for Central Europe, Switzerland (1995-1996); Operations Officer, Philippines
(1992-1995) and Development Officer/Associated Expert, Philippines (1989-1992). Irena holds a BA in History and Political Science from the University of
Heidelberg, Germany and an MA in History, Geography, and International Law from the University of Vienna, Austria.
DAY 1
The Berlin Process in Belgrade: the EU as a Peace
Process Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
In the nal declaration of the Western Balkans Summit, six Western Balkan countries that are not yet EU members – Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – obliged themselves to refrain from “misusing outstanding issues in the EU accession process” and welcomed
the EU pledge to support them in resolving bilateral disputes. Several concrete agreements were reached as the conference progressed: the
conclusion of four important agreements in the EU-led talks between Serbia and Kosovo and signature of a border agreement between Bosnia and
Montenegro. In turn, Austrian and German leaders who were present announced support for key infrastructure projects and pledged solidarity over
the ongoing refugee crisis affecting several Balkan states.
However, many challenges remain. Balkan leaders and EU officials concluded that more efforts are needed to accelerate reform processes, notably in
the areas of rule of law, economic governance and public administration, as well as in the ght against corruption, organized crime and terrorism.
Finally, as the nal document reads, participants “became convinced that the threat posed by radicalization, terrorism and violent extremism and in
particular by foreign terrorist ghters travelling via or from Western Balkan countries to Syria and Iraq, requires strengthened cooperation and
increased exchange of information”. The on-going refugee (or migrant) crisis represented one of the summit's most hotly debated issues. Six countries
promised to build their capacities in the areas of border management and the ght against trafficking and strengthen their cooperation over asylum
procedures, judged by many as unsatisfactory.
Also in the framework of the Vienna Western Balkans Summit, Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), together with the European Fund for
the Balkans (EFB) presented their policy recommendations for solution of bilateral disputes among the countries of the region. BiEPAG experts
offered a set of recommendations from their policy brief “Removing obstacles to EU accession: Bilateral disputes in the Western Balkans”, together
with the “Declaration on bilateral issues”, proposed for adoption to governments of the Western Balkan states. These inputs were then fed into the
summit meetings and conclusions.
Our round table aims to build on these initiatives, and will have among its speakers many experts who have been part of the program in Vienna this
August.
Discussion topics:
1.What is the state of bilateral relations in the Western Balkans?
2.Can the EU enlargement process re-gain the momentum it had lost?
3.Which are the obstacles to further democratization of the region and which are the most worrying trends?
4.What are the features of strategic landscape of the Western Balkans' region, and who are emerging players?
5.Have 2014-2015 been wasted in terms of reconciliation initiatives?
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The Berlin Process in Belgrade: the EU as a Peace
Process Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
Speakers:
Florian Bieber is a Professor of Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of
Graz, Austria. He was previously Lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent, UK. He received his M.A. in Political Science and History
and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna, as well as an M.A. in Southeast European Studies from Central European University
(Budapest). He is the coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) and has been providing policy advice to international
organisations, foreign ministries, donors and private investors. Between 2001 and 2006, he has been working in Belgrade (Serbia) and Sarajevo
(Bosnia-Herzegovina) for the European Centre for Minority Issues. Florian Bieber is also a Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program at
Central European University. In 2010, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and in 2009 he held the Luigi Einaudi Chair at
Cornell University, USA. He published articles on institutional design, nationalism and politics in South-eastern Europe in Social Sciences Quarterly,
Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Third World Quarterly, Current History, International Peacekeeping, Ethnopolitcs and other journals as well
as three monographs and ten edited collections.
Selmo Cikotić is Dean of the American School of Government, American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the Minister of Defence of
Bosnia and Herzegovina from February 2007, but was unable to take up this post officially until 22 April 2007, when a ban on former army officers
performing defence-related civilian duties expired. In February 1993, he was appointed commander of the operational group Zapad of the 3rd Corps
of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Bugojno. Mr Cikotić served as a military attaché at the embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina to
the United States in Washington D.C. from December 1994 to 1997. As Brigadier General he enrolled at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff
College at Fort Leavenworth in June 1997. From 2000 to 2004 he was Commander of the 1st Corps of the Federation Army, and from 2004 to 2007 he
was CEO of OKI in Sarajevo. In June 2007 he jointly attended the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels together with
Serbian defence minister Dragan Šutanovac. Together they expressed their governments' wish to join NATO as soon as possible. In March 2008 he led a
ve member delegation to Pakistan to discuss "bilateral cooperation between the two Muslim countries". Cikotić received an MA from the University
of Sarajevo in 2004. He defended his PhD theses entitled “Security Prospects of Bosnia and Hercegovina” in July 2008. In May 2009 he was elected
Docent for Politics and Strategies of National Security at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Sarajevo University. He has published a number of articles
and translated many military eld manuals and studies from English to Bosnian. His two books, The USA – BIH, Possible Transfer of Security Solutions
and Security Prospectives of Bosnia and Herzegovina were published last year.
Christian Danielsson has been Director General for Enlargement at the European Commission in Brussels since October 2013. He graduated at the
Stockholm School of Economics in Business Administration and Economics. After a successful career in Swedish diplomacy he joined the EU
administration in DG Enlargement, rstly as the Head of the Turkey Unit, then as a Director for Directorate B responsible for the three candidate
countries Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. Between 2011 and 2013 he served as the Deputy Secretary General in charge of
Directorate F (Relations with the European Council/Council, International Relations and G8/G20 Co-ordination), Directorate G (Relations with the
European Parliament, the Committees and General Institutional Issues) and the Protocol Service.
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The Berlin Process in Belgrade: the EU as a Peace
Process Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
Alex Roinishvili Grigorev is the Founding President the US-based Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG). He is also a Professor in International
Peace and Con ict Resolution at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania. Educated in history and international affairs and an expert on Balkan politics and
ethnic relations, Prof Grigorev, among his other CIG duties, facilitates discussions among political and ethnic leaders in the Balkans and leads
programs on fostering democratic governance and minority inclusion (more information about CIG is available at www.cigonline.net). Prior to
heading CIG, he was the Executive Director of the Princeton-based Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) where he developed and conducted programs on
inter-ethnic relations in Southeast Europe and the former Soviet Union. PER helped to develop the rst minority legislation in a number of postCommunist countries. Before joining PER Prof Grigorev was an analyst at the Calvert Emerging Europe Fund in New York City. He has been working in
the Balkans since 1991 and is the author of numerous articles, essays, and reports on Balkan politics and inter-ethnic relations published in the United
States and Europe. Prof Grigorev lectures in the US, Europe, and the Middle East on ethnic con ict, governance, and international relations, he holds
degrees in international affairs and history from Columbia University, the Central European University, the State University of New York, Moscow State
University as well as a mediation certi cate from the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Ramadan Ilazi has been Deputy Minister for European Integration of Kosovo as of January 30th 2015. His portfolio includes: strengthening dialogue
and cooperation between the government and civil society in the European integration agenda, supporting the development of a National Action
Plan for the Adoption of Acquis and coordinating the efforts of the government of Kosovo to promote open data. In 2014, he brie y served as an
adviser to former Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi. Prior to becoming involved in politics he was an active member of civil society in Kosovo, serving as
executive director of the Kosovo Institute of Peace from 2012 to 2014 and of Lëvizja FOL from 2008 to 2011. In 2012, he coauthored the paper “A Peace
Treaty for Sustainable Peace: a new beginning for Kosovo and Serbia” which outlined a concrete platform for a peace treaty between Kosovo and Serbia.
Mr Ilazi has also taught courses on peace and con ict studies in educational institutions in Kosovo and has spoken at a number of international and
regional events on issues concerning European integration and good governance. He holds an MA from the University of St. Andrews School of
International Relations.
Dr. Mladen Ivanić graduated the Economic Faculty of the University of Banja Luka in 1981, obtained his Magister diploma at the Economic Faculty of
the Belgrade University in 1984, where he nished his PhD in 1988. Since 1985, he started lecturing the Basics of Economics at the University of Banja
Luka. In January 2001, he was named the Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska, and remained in function until 2003. He also served as a Minister
for Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1999, he founded the Party of Democratic Progress of Republika Srpska and is the president of the
party. He is the author of a number of books and text books, as well as a large number of scienti c and expert articles. After the general elections in
Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014, he was named a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Republika Srpska.
DAY 1
The Berlin Process in Belgrade: the EU as a Peace
Process Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
Dejan Jović is Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb, where he is the head of the
Department for International Politics and Diplomacy. He nished his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE, 1999),
afterwards he continued his work at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2000) and Stirling University in Scotland (2000-2010). He is
the author of the book Yugoslavia: A State That Withered Away (2003, the American edition in 2009), editor of the books Slobodan Milošević: Road to
Power (alongside Momčilo Pavlović and Vladimir Petrović, 2008), Theories of International Relations: Realism (2013) and Liberal Theories of
International Relations (2014). From 2010 until 2014 he was Head Analyst for the President of the Republic of Croatia and since 2013 he has been Chief
Editor of the academic journal Croatian Political Science Review.
Remzi Lani is Executive Director of the Albanian Media Institute. He has had a long carrier in journalism: Zeri i Rinise (Tirana), El Mundo (Madrid),
Zeri (Pristina) etc. he is the Author of articles on Balkan affairs for different local and foreign papers and magazines such as: El Mundo (Madrid), The
Guardian (London), Quimera (Barcelona), The International Spectator (Rome), Futuribili (Trieste), Fokus (Skopje), Vreme (Belgrade), Oslobođenje
(Sarajevo), Monitor (Podgorica), War Report (London), Transition (Prague), Transitions (Brussels). Mr Lani was the rst President of the South East
Network of Media Centers and Media Institutes, which brings together 15 Media Institutes/Media Centers from SEE. He is a member of the Steering
Committee of GFMD (the Global Forum for Media Development), a member of the Board of WAN (the World Association of Newspapers). He has also
been working as a media consultant in Yemen, Mozambique, Zimbabve, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Zwaziland, Bostwana, Armenia, BiH etc. He
was a guest lecturer at Klagenfurt University (Austria), Otawa University (Canada), Windhoek Politechnic (Namibia), etc. He is co-author of the books
My Albania - Ground Zero (New York, 1992) and Masters of Humanist Philosophy (Tirana, 2000 and 2010). Mr Lani has collaborated with the Aspen
Institute, Berlin, Istituto Affari Internationali, Rome, CESPI, Rome, the Center for International and Strategic Studies, Washington, the Carter Center,
Atlanta, the Hellenic Foundation, Athens, CIDOB, Barcelona and the Bertelsmann Foundation on different projects dealing with Balkan issues.
Furthermore, he was a founding member of the rst Human Rights Group in Albania: The Forum for Human Rights, 1990.
DAY 1
The Berlin Process in Belgrade: the EU as a Peace
Process Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
Sonja Licht is the President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence. She was part of the Yugoslav dissident movement from the late sixties, and
from the mid-eighties founded numerous local and international non-governmental organizations. Between 1991 and 1995 Sonja Licht was the cochair of the international Helsinki Citizens' Assembly. From 1991 to 2003 she was rst Executive Director and then President of the Fund for an Open
Society (Soros Foundation) in Yugoslavia (later Serbia), a major donor of a vigorous civil society. Sonja was the head of the Task Force of the Bratislava
Process (established in July 1999 under the auspices of the East-West Institute in order to support the democratic opposition of Serbia). In 2010 she
participated in the Council of Europe's Group of Eminent Persons that prepared the report: Living Together: Combining Freedom and Diversity in Europe
of 21st Century. She has been a member of boards of outstanding international organizations and is the laureate of numerous awards including the
Star of Italian Solidarity and the French Legion of Honor. She is a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy for 2015.
Leon Malazogu is co-founder and executive director of Democracy for Development Institute (D4D), a think-tank dedicated to research links
between democracy and development. He completed his studies at the American University in Bulgaria and the University of Notre Dame specializing
in international relations and governance. Leon has served as a Board Member of the University of Prishtina and is a part of the Balkans in Europe
Policy Advisory Group set up by the University of Graz. Leon taught in several universities and was scholar in residence at the Arizona State University.
Leon served as Regional Representative for the European Centre for Minority Issues, Research Director at the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and
Development, adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister, and ran the Kosovo Office of the Project on Ethnic Relations. He has published numerous studies
on democratization and regional affairs.
Danijel Mondekar is a member of the Croatian Parliament and Chairman of the European Affairs Committee. His main activities include hearings on
European Commission documents and the scrutiny of governmental work in the Council of the European Union and the European Council. He is also a
member of the Main Committee of the Social Democratic Party. Mr Mondekar was the founder and Secretary General of the Centre for Training and
Consulting in Education, Science and Innovation and founder of the Croatian Centre for Development and EU funds. He has extensive experience on
European affairs, capacity building projects and in promoting EU integration policies. He graduated in Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. He
is currently pursuing a PhD in Information Sciences on Digital Europe and is a European Affairs and European policies lecturer at different higher
education institutions. Mr Mondekar is also one of the founding members of EU star, a Brussels based South East European Think Tank.
DAY 1
The Berlin Process in Belgrade: the EU as a Peace
Process Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans (balkanfund.org)
Hedvig Morvai has been the Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans, an initiative aimed at strengthening democracy and fostering
European integration in the Western Balkans, since 2007. Prior to this she served as director of the Citizens' Pact for South Eastern Europe, she
coordinated the Novi Sad office of the Partnership for Democratic Changes and was engaged in the EXIT Festival team. In 1997 she was the founder
and vice president of the Hungarian Student Association of Vojvodina. She studied law and communications. In 2006 she received the Maja
Maršićević-Tasić Foundation's“Conquering Freedom Award”.
Moderator:
Ivan Vejvoda is Senior Vice President for programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2003-10, he served as executive director
of GMF's Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions in Southeastern Europe. Vejvoda came to GMF in
2003 from distinguished service in the Serbian government as senior advisor on foreign policy and European integration to Prime Ministers Zoran
Djindjic and Zoran Zivkovic. Prior to that, he served as executive director of the Belgrade-based Fund for an Open Society from 1998 to 2002. During
the mid-1990s, Vejvoda held various academic posts in the United States and the U.K., including one-year appointments at Smith College in
Massachusetts and Macalester College in Minnesota, and a three-year research fellowship at the University of Sussex in England. Vejvoda was a key
gure in the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia through the 1990s, and is widely published on the subjects of democratic transition,
totalitarianism, and post-war reconstruction in the Balkans. He is a member of the Serbian Pen Club and is a board member of U.S. social science
journals Constellations and Philosophy and Social Criticism. Vejvoda has been awarded the French National Order of Merit in the rank of Officer and the
Order of the Italian Star of Solidarity, second rank (Commendatore). He holds a diploma from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and completed
postgraduate studies in philosophy at Belgrade University. He speaks uent English, French, and Italian in addition to his native Serbian.
DAY 2 October 1, 2015
8.20 - 9.20
Registration of the Participants
9.20 - 9.30
Welcoming Speech
Crystal Ballroom
Sonja Licht, President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
9.30 - 11.00
Plenary Panel 1: Reaffirmation of OSCE's Role in Con ict Management
Crystal Ballroom
Speakers:
Amb. Roksanda Ninčić, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Serbia
Amb. Gérard Stoudmann, OSCE Special Representative for Western Balkans
Amb. Jonathan Moore, Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Amb. István Gyarmati, President, International Centre for Democratic Transition, Hungary
Teija Tiilikainen‚ Former State Secretary, Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Chair: Nik Gowing, International Broadcaster and Visiting Professor in War Studies, Kings College London
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee and Networking Break
11.30 - 13.00
Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Political Islam in Europe
Crystal Ballroom
Speakers:
François Heisbourg, Chairman, International Institute of Strategic Studies and Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Álvaro De Vasconcelos, Director, Projects for the Arab Reform Initiative
İsmail Yaylacı, Assistant Professor, İstanbul Şehir University
Chair: Tim Judah, Balkans Correspondent, The Economist
DAY 2 October 1, 2015
13.00 - 14.30
Networking Lunch
13.45 - 15.15
Closed Session: Method Café
Budva Room
Dejan Jović, Professor of International Relations, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia
Raffaele Marchetti, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
14.30 - 16.00
Plenary Panel 3: The Crisis in Ukraine – Lessons (Not)Learned from the Western Balkans
Crystal Ballroom
Speakers:
Ted Whiteside, Acting Assistant General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Andrei Zagorski, Head of Department for Disarmament, Arms Control and Con ict Resolution, Institute for World Economy and World Politics, Russian Academy of
Sciences
Andriy Veselovsky, Member of Advisory Board, Institute for Social and Economic Studies
Žarko Puhovski, Professor, University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy
James Sherr, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Chatham House
Chair: Vessela Tcherneva, Head, Wider Europe Program, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
DAY 2 October 1, 2015
16.30 - 18.00
Breakout Sessions (simultaneously organized smaller sessions, off the record except Session 8)
Session 6: Germany - the Reluctant Leader of Europe?
Beograd Room
Speakers:
Amb. Angus Lapsley, United Kingdom Representative, Political Security Committee of the European Union
Michael Schaefer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quandt (BMW) Foundation
François Heisbourg, Chairman, International Institute of Strategic Studies and Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Amb. Cameron Munter, Chief Executive Officer, EastWest Institute
Adam Rotfeld, Professor, Warsaw University, Co-Chairman, Polish-Russian Group, Difficult Matters, Commissioner, Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative Commission
Moderator: Sandra Breka, Senior Vice President of the Robert Bosch Foundation
Session 7: Keeping NATO Strong and Relevant: What Priorities toward the Warsaw Summit 2016?
In partnership with the German Marshall Fund of United States, Balkan Trust for Democracy
Crystal Ballroom
Speakers:
H.E. Momir Udovički‚ Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to NATO‚
Giselle Wilz‚ Commander, NATO Sarajevo HQ‚
Tamir Waser‚ Political Adviser, US Mission to NATO‚
Claudia Major‚ Senior Associate, International Security, SWP Berlin‚
Moderator: Ivan Vejvoda‚ Senior Vice President of the German Marshall Fund
Session 8: Privatization of Security in Transforming Societies – Main Challenges to Democratic Governance (on the record)
Presentation of the results of a region-wide research in partnership with the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces (DCAF)
Budva Room
Speakers:
Ivan Funčić, Securitas Croatia
Rositsa Dzhekova‚ Coordinator, Security Program, Center for the Study of Democracy, So a
Moderator: Alan Bryden‚ Assistant Director and Head, Public-Private Partnerships Division, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed (DCAF)
19.00 - 20.00
Special side event: Awarding of the Honorary Citizen of Belgrade Title to Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Norway
Belgrade City Hall, (upon separate invitation)
21.00
BSF Gala Dinner, (upon separate invitation)
DAY 2
Welcoming Speech
Sonja Licht is the President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence. She was part of the Yugoslav dissident movement from the late sixties, and
from the mid-eighties founded numerous local and international non-governmental organizations. Between 1991 and 1995 Sonja Licht was the cochair of the international Helsinki Citizens' Assembly. From 1991 to 2003 she was rst Executive Director and then President of the Fund for an Open
Society (Soros Foundation) in Yugoslavia (later Serbia), a major donor of a vigorous civil society. Sonja was the head of the Task Force of the Bratislava
Process (established in July 1999 under the auspices of the East-West Institute in order to support the democratic opposition of Serbia). In 2010 she
participated in the Council of Europe's Group of Eminent Persons that prepared the report: Living Together: Combining Freedom and Diversity in Europe
of 21st Century. She has been a member of boards of outstanding international organizations and is the laureate of numerous awards including the
Star of Italian Solidarity and the French Legion of Honor. She is a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy for 2015.
DAY 2
Plenary Panel 1: Reaffirmation of OSCE's Role in Con ict Management
Forty years after the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act, the OSCE seems to have reemerged from the margins of international relations. This
organization has survived difficult times since the end of the Cold War. Many thought that it had reached its maximum and that it would never recover.
Nevertheless, while its future is still unclear it is obvious that it needs to be reformed. The potential of this organization has been pointed out very
often as it is the only pan-European security organization that spans the Euro-Atlantic region and includes the US, Canada, Russia and all CIS states.
Consequently, the OSCE may be employed within a multilateral context, involving Russia as an active member, thereby lending real legitimacy to the
security measures adopted for Europe, the CIS, and Central Asia. Furthermore, the institution's physical presence in the region in the form of eld
missions and direct, long-term involvement with parties on the ground in democratization and con ict mediation efforts – spanning political,
economic, military and linguistic issues – gives the OSCE a comparative advantage over other security organizations like NATO, which are only
recently getting accustomed to "out of area" involvement.
Though lacking its own military forces, the OSCE has nonetheless contributed to Europe's military security – an important function not often
associated with this institution – through the negotiation of ground-breaking agreements on arms control. Following the dramatic changes in the
present day security environment however, the OSCE, like other security organizations, needs to adapt to remain relevant. One of its greatest
strengths (or weaknesses) has been its exible and loose bureaucratic structure. Under the current conditions, identifying the cutting edge of the
OSCE's future impact means nothing less than effectively protecting its core principles: common and co-operative security, shared norms and
commitments – including those in the human dimension – and inclusive dialogue.
These principles are now in serious jeopardy. The gravity of the OSCE's present situation lies in the fact that its two key dimensions have
simultaneously come under serious pressure. Although not explicitly revoked, the OSCE's normative acquis, particularly in the human dimension, are
facing ever-increasing challenges from a number of participating States. States are no longer able to agree on the meaning of key norms such as
democracy and human rights. At the same time, the Organization's co-operative security policy is being undermined by a resurgence of unilateral
military thinking in a number of participating States, particularly the Russian Federation and the USA. The very existence of the OSCE's politicomilitary dimension is threatened by the impending collapse of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). The main strategic
consequence of this exasperated situation is that there is no viable option for a gradual, intermediate strategy. Over the last few years, the
participating States have taken a business-as-usual approach because they cannot agree on key political issues. This approach, if continued, will
inevitably lead to further stagnation and marginalization of the Organization.
Discussion topics:
1. What is left of common OSCE vision for the Euroasian area?
2. What could be a new common OSCE vision for the Euroasian area?
3. How in uential was the OSCE in managing the crisis in Ukraine?
4. How effective is Serbia's Chairmanship‐in‐Office?
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Plenary Panel 1: Reaffirmation of OSCE's Role in Con ict Management
Speakers:
Amb. Roksanda Ninčić is the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. She was born in 1961 in Lausanne in Switzerland
and graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. She began her career as a correspondent of “Borba”daily newspaper. In the year
2001 she was appointed a political adviser in charge of Security Council affairs in the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the United
Nations, New York. In 2004 Roksanda was chief of staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and in 2005 she was appointed Head of the Mission of the Republic
of Serbia to the European Union, Brussels. In the year of 2012 she was assistant foreign affairs ministry for multilateral cooperation. She is uent in English
and has a working knowledge of French.
Amb. Gérard Stoudmann has been the Special Representative for the Western Balkans of the Chairmanship of the OSCE since January 2014. He has
been appointed for a two-year term after serving under the OSCE Swiss Chairmanship and currently under the Serbian Chairmanship. Prior to this, he was
the Special Representative of the Swiss Foreign Ministry for Sahel from December 2012 to September 2013. From November 2009 to November 2012, he
was the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe for Organizational Development and Reform. He has also served as the
Special Envoy of the Swiss Foreign Ministry for Francophone Africa and the UN High Representative for the Elections in Cote d'Ivoire (by appointment of UN
Secretary-General Ko Annan in 2006). He has worked both in public service, in various positions at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Economy,
and in the private sector. Prior to joining the UN, he was Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy from 2002 to 2006. In 1997, he was an
Ambassador and elected Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw. There, he developed the institution's
preeminence in election assistance and observation throughout the OSCE: democratization programs, human rights monitoring and reporting as well as
diplomatic conferences on sensitive human-dimension issues. In 1993/94, he was Managing Director of the St-Gallen Foundation for International
Studies, University of St-Gallen and the St-Gallen International Management Symposium. From 1989 to 1993, he was Personal Adviser to Jean-Pascal
Delamuraz, President of the Swiss Confederation and Minister of Economy. Prior to this, he served in a number of multilateral positions in the Swiss Foreign
Service (Council of Europe, CSCE, European Communities, Brussels). Ambassador Stoudmann studied law at the University of Lausanne and International
Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He is a member of the Board of Directors of IFES (International Foundation for
Election Systems), in Washington, DC.
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Amb. Jonathan Moore began his current assignment as a Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in September 2014. He was previously
Director of the Office of South Central European Affairs at the U.S. Department of State; that office has lead policy responsibilities for Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Ambassador Moore, a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service with the rank
of Minister-Counselor, joined the State Department in 1990 and was assigned to the Embassy in Belgrade in 1991. He was a desk officer for the former
Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1995, and was the Political/Economic Section Chief of the U.S. Embassy in Lithuania from 1995 to 1999. Ambassador Moore was
the Deputy Director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Russian Affairs from 2000 until 2002, serving as Acting Director for several months in early
2002. He then worked as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Namibia from 2002 to 2005. Ambassador Moore was a 2005-06 National Security
Affairs Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Belarus from 2006 until 2008, and was
Chargé there from 2008 until 2009. Before returning to Washington, he was U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2012. Mr.
Moore has received a Distinguished Honor Award and several Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the State Department as well as two awards for
language pro ciency from the American Foreign Service Association, and has been decorated with the Lithuanian Orders of Merit and Grand Duke
Gediminas. In addition to the languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Moore speaks Russian, German, Danish, and Lithuanian.
Prof. Dr. István Gyarmati is currently, among others, President of the International Centre for Democratic Transition. He is a Chair of the UN Secretary
General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, member of numerous boards, including the NATO Defense College Foundation, the Belgrade Centre for
Political Excellence and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He has a distinguished career in the Hungarian diplomatic service, served as Head
of OSCE Missions to Georgia and Chechnya, Undersecretary of Defense, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs of the East West Institute. In
February-March 2004, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Monitoring Mission in Moldova. Amb. Gyarmati holds an MBA, a doctorate in Political Science
and a PhD of Strategic Studies. He is honorary professor at the Zrinyi Miklos National Defense University, the ELTE University and the Eszterhazy Karoly
University. He is the author of numerous publications on security policy, European security, con ict management and Hungarian defense policy.
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Teija Tiilikainen is Former State Secretary and Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Dr Tiilikainen is a Finnish scholar who has been
focusing on issues related to European integration and European security politics. She serves currently as the Director of the Finnish Institute of
International Affairs. She functioned as State Secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland from 2007-2008. She was representing the Finnish
government in the Convention on the Future of Europe in 2002-2003. Dr Tiilikainen has published several books and more than 80 academic articles in
international journals and compiled volumes. She is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of a number of academic
institutes and associations in Finland.
Chair:
Nik Gowing was a main news presenter for the BBC's international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik
Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London , plus location coverage of major global stories. For 18 years he worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in
Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been a member of the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the
Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), and the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the board of the Westminster Foundation for
Democracy including vice chair (1996-2005), and the advisory council at Wilton Park (1998-2012 ). In 1994 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone
Center in the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Nik has extensive reporting experience over three decades in diplomacy, defence and
international security. He also has a much sought-after analytical expertise on the failures to manage information in the new transparent environments of
con icts, crises, emergencies and times of tension. His peer-reviewed study at Oxford University is “Skyful of Lies and Black Swans”. It predicts and
identi es the new vulnerability, fragility and brittleness of institutional power in the new all-pervasive public information space. It can be downloaded
free online after registration. In 2014 Nik was appointed a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London in the School of Social Science and Public Policy. He is
a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Geo-Economics.He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Exeter University in 2012
and Bristol University in 2015 for both his ongoing cutting edge analysis and distinguished career in international journalism.
DAY 2
Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Political Islam in Europe
With the downfall of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the militant approach of Islamists in Iraq, Syria and Libya, many analysts say the future of
political Islam in the Arab world is tenuous. Can Islamists moderate their ideology and de ne a political model that Europe would nd acceptable?
And is this actually possible with Islam or was Samuel Huntington right in saying that these two civilizations can only clash and cannot co-exist?
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy stood rm saying that this is not the case:
"The idea of a clash between Islam and "the West" – a word in which everything seems to be put together – has misled our policies and our narratives.
Islam holds a place in our Western societies. Islam belongs in Europe. It holds a place in Europe's history, in our culture, in our food and – what matters
most – in Europe's present and future. Some people are now trying to convince us that a Muslim cannot be a good European citizen, that more
Muslims in Europe will be the end of Europe. These people are not just mistaken about Muslims: these people are mistaken about Europe, they have no
clue what Europe and the European identity are.”
If this is the case, maybe Europe should also do something about changing its position on Islam. Today more than ever, Europe de nitely needs a
common policy towards this issue. The example of the refugees that are coming to Europe in their hundreds of thousands and the treatment they
receive is a very vivid reminder of the need for such a common policy. Or, in the words of Ms Mogherini: "Maybe we should also take time to brush up on
the "acquis" with some Member States. We have a problem of internal coherence. … We have supported the "bring back our girls" campaign for the
Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, there is such a contradiction between our solidarity when these girls are far away, and our lack of solidarity
when they are at our door." By giving the refugees the treatment they deserve Europe will also send an important message to the Islamic world –
inside and outside Europe. This will be the message of tolerance and cohabitation – values that have somehow been gradually forgotten in Europe
though they are fundamental values of European integration.
Discussion topics:
1. Does Europe denote the difference between "European" Islam and Islam outside of Europe?
2. Is the Eurocentric approach to Islam one of the main challenges we face?
3. How will the current migrations affect relations between various communities?
4. How can Muslim communities contribute to preventing radicalization in Europe?
DAY 2
Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Political Islam in Europe
Speakers:
François Heisbourg is a chairman of the council of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and of the London-based International Institute for
Strategic Studies. He is a special advisor to the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique. His career has included positions in government
(member of the French mission to the UN, international security adviser to the Minister of Defence), industry (vice-president of Thomson-CSF, i.e. the
present-day Thales; senior vice-president of strategy at Matra Défense Espace, today part of EADS) and academia (professor of the world politics
course at Sciences-Po Paris and director of the IISS). He is a member of the International council of CNRS (the French Scienti c Research Council), and
has sat on a number of national and international blue-ribbon bodies (notably the French Defence and national security White Paper (2007 and
2012), the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, the International Commission on the Balkans, the EU
Commission's group of personalities on security research and development). He has written extensively on defence and security issues and is a
frequent contributor to both specialist and main-stream media. His latest book is La Fin du rê ve européen, Paris, éditions Stock, 2013.
Álvaro de Vasconcelosis Associate Senior Researcher at the Arab Reform Initiative where he is the director of several projects related to
constitutional reform and the management of security in times of transition. He is also the Steering Committee Coordinator of the Global Governance
Group (GG10). From 2014 to 2015, he was visiting professor at the Institute of International Relations of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. From 2007
to 2012, he was Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris. He co-founded the Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e
Internacionais (IEEI) in Lisbon in 1981 and was its director until 2007. He has written and edited numerous books, articles and reports on foreign
policy, common security policy, Euro-Mediterranean relations and the new world order. His most recent book, La vague démocratique arabe –
L'Europe et la question islamiste, was published in 2014. Mr de Vasconcelos is a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor (France) and Comendador do
Ordem do Rio Branco (Brazil).
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Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Political Islam in Europe
İsma l Yaylacı is an assistant professor of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Şehir University. He attained his undergraduate
degrees in Political Science and International Relations and in Sociology at Boğaziçi University (2005), and then completed his masters' in Political
Science and International Relations at the same institution with his thesis, titled “'A Democratic Realist' Foreign Policy: U.S. Democracy Promotion in
the Middle East and the Case of Egypt” (2007). The same year he started his doctoral studies in Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities, U.S.A., and completed it in 2014. His dissertation, “Performative Socialization in World Politics: Islamism, Secularism and Democracy in Turkey
and Egypt,”develops a theoretical framework to understand how widely aspired but deeply contested modern ideals get negotiated when they travel
across cultural difference. It then uses that framework to analyze the ways in which Islamically-oriented political formations in Turkey and Egypt
engage, translate, and appropriate democracy and secularism in their local and global contexts. Yaylacı is the co-editor of Civilizations and World
Order: Geopolitics and Cultural Difference (with Fred Dallmayr and M. AkifKayapınar, Lexington Books, 2014). His publications appeared in Divan
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies and Anlayış Magazine. His research interests include international
relations theory, international norms and institutions, global governance, international security, Turkish foreign policy, Middle East politics, Islam and
politics, democratic theory and democratization, secularity and secularisms, contemporary social and political theory, postcolonial theory, Islamic
political thought, and comparative political theory.
Chair:
Tim Judah covers the Balkans, and sometimes other locations, for the Economist. For much of 2015 he was in Ukraine, covering events for the New
York Review of Books and writing a book about the war for Penguin, which will be published in December and will be entitled In Wartime: Stories from
Ukraine. He is the author of three books on the Balkans: The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia and Kosovo: War & Revenge; The
third, Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know was published at the end of 2008. From 1990 to 1991 he lived in Bucharest and covered the aftermath of
communism in Romania and Bulgaria for The Times and The Economist. After that he moved to Belgrade to cover the war in Yugoslavia for both
publications. He moved back to London in 1995 but continues to travel frequently to the region. In 2009 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the
South East European Research Unit of the European Institute at the London School of Economics, where he developed the concept of the “Yugosphere”.
He is the president of the Board of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and a member of the board of the Kosovar Stability Initiative. Since 11
September 2001 he has also covered many other parts of the world for, among others, The Economist and the New York Review of Books, these have
included Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Darfur and Haiti. In 2008 he published a book for Reportage Press Bikila: Ethiopia's Barefoot Olympian which
is about the life and times of the rst black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics in Rome 1960. He was shortlisted for this in the best new
sportswriter category for the 2009 British Sports Book Awards.
DAY 2
Method Café
Following the best practices from the BSF 2013, this year's Academic event will be complemented with an additional program for PhD students and other
interested researchers entitled the Method Café. Method Café is an established type of conference session led by scholars with expertise in a range of
research methods with the idea to engage with other participants in informal and unstructured yet focused discussions about methods they are
specialized in. Due to the great interest for this type of session among young researchers and scholars, as well as the great success of the previous year's
Method Café, this session will again be an addition to the BSF Academic event.
Dejan Jović is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Zagreb, where he is the head of the
Department for International Politics and Diplomacy. He nished his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE, 1999),
afterwards he continued his work at the European University Institute in Florence (EUI, 2000) and Stirling University in Scotland (2000-2010). He is
the author of the book Yugoslavia: A State That Withered Away (2003, the American edition in 2009), editor of the books Slobodan Milošević: Road to
Power (alongside Momčilo Pavlović and Vladimir Petrović, 2008), Theories of International Relations: Realism (2013) and Liberal Theories of
International Relations (2014). From 2010 until 2014 he was a Head Analyst for the President of the Republic of Croatia and since 2013 he has been
Chief Editor of the academic journal Croatian Political Science Review.
Jozef Bátora is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research areas include
changing dynamics in diplomacy in the context of European integration, EU foreign policy, the development of transatlantic security architecture and
the role of institutions in political life. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo and was previously visiting professor at FSI,
Stanford University, senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at ARENA, University of Oslo. His work has been published inter alia in
the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, the Journal of International Relations and
Development, the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, International Relations and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is the coordinating editor
of the Journal of International Relations and Development.His most recent book is The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy PostWestphalia (with David Spence, Palgrave 2015).
Raffaele Marchetti is assistant professor in International Relations at LUISS. His research area concerns global politics and governance,
transnational civil society, political risk, and democracy. He also acts as an external expert for the European Commission and other public/private
institutions on issues of governance, public policy, civil society, and peacebuilding. In 2015 he produced one of the rst MOOCs on IR entitled From
International Relations to Global Politics for Iversity. Among his most recent publications: La politica della globalizzazione (Mondadori, 2014);
Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2013, co-ed. with B.Maiguashca), Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical
Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2011, co-ed. with D.Archibugi and M.Koenig-Archibugi), Civil Society, Ethnic Con icts, and the Politicization
of Human Rights (United Nations University Press, 2011, co-ed. with N.Tocci), Con ict Society and Peacebuilding (Routledge, 2011, co-ed. with N.Tocci)
and Manuale di politicainternazionale (UBE, 2010, co-au. with F.Mazzei and F.Petito).
DAY 2
Plenary Panel 3: The Crisis in Ukraine Lessons (not) Learned from the Western Balkans
Could we have anticipated the Ukrainian con ict? A country nestled between two political blocks – one established and enlarged, the other still
establishing (and enlarging?) – with deep internal divisions following a decade of intermittent political crises? Surely we should have been able. In
the meantime, many scholars have pointed out numerous similarities between the Ukrainian con ict and the bloody break-up of former Yugoslavia.
The methods of mobilizing public support for the protection one's own ethnic groups are virtually identical in Russia today as they were in Serbia
twenty years ago. Ethnic political parties, military and paramilitary forces and self-proclaimed autonomous regions and republics but also indecision
and weakness in the reaction of the international community bring back memories from the nineties and fears that we are again helplessly watching
the fall of another country. However, even when it repeats itself, history never does it in exactly the same way.
As Holmes and Krastev recently put it – the con ict in Ukraine is not a new Yugoslav con ict. It is much worse, and the reason can be found in the
differences between these two con icts. Putin's Russia is not Milosevic's Serbia. Russia is not a footnote in history or a Balkan mini-state; it is a great
nuclear power, against which Ukraine, however heavily armed, does not stand a chance militarily. Moreover, the geopolitical context has changed
considerably in the last two decades. At the time of the Yugoslav war, the West not only occupied the moral high ground, but was also viewed as
invincible, thanks to its victory in the Cold War. Today, the West is perceived as declining, with the United States' legitimacy as a global leader
increasingly being called into question. Where does this bring us today and what are the lessons that we ought to have learned? Maybe one of the
most important was to talk – not only when the crisis was at its peak but at the beginning, or better still, before it began. Only then would we have
been able to say that we had learned something from previous con icts and that we were ready to tackle our problems through strategic thinking and
dialogue.
The next question that worries us is the future of Ukraine after the con ict. Will it suffer a similar fate to Yugoslavia? This would indeed be an extremely
disappointing scenario; it would mean that we have learned absolutely nothing from the Yugoslav wars.
Discussion topics:
1. Are there similarities between the situation in Ukraine and the fall of Yugoslavia?
2. Do the events in Yugoslavia and Ukraine re ect the substitution of diplomacy with propaganda?
3. What do the geopolitical are‐ups in these two regions show about the European buffer zone?
4. Is the Ukrainian crisis going to de ne the relations between the EU and Russia for decades to come?
DAY 2
Plenary Panel 3: The Crisis in Ukraine Lessons (not)Learned from the Western Balkans
Speakers:
Ted Whiteside is currently Acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy of the NATO. Before taking up his current duties he was Secretary
of the North Atlantic Council, and Director of the NATO Ministerial and Summit Task Force in Brussels, and prior to that he was the Director of the NATO
Weapons of Mass Destruction Centre. In his current capacity, he is responsible for guiding the Alliance's public diplomacy strategies, and overseeing
their implementation in member nations and partner countries. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada
for the negotiations conducted with the Federal Republic of Germany. He is a Graduate of the NATO Defense College, did postgraduate studies in
International Politics in Brussels, and holds an MA from the University of Montreal and a BA from York University.
Prof. Andrei Zagorski deals with European security, post-Soviet issues, arms control and Arctic studies. From 1992 to 1999, he was Vice Rector of
MGIMO-University. In 2000 and 2001 he worked in Prague for the EastWest Institute as Senior Vice-President and Director of the International
Security Program. He was a faculty member of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (2002) and Deputy Director of the Institute for applied
International Research (Moscow. 2002 – 2003). Between 1987 and 1991, he was an advisor to the Soviet delegations to the CSCE. As a founding
member, he chaired the Russian Association for Nonproliferation between 1992 and 1995. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the
Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
Andri Veselovsky, Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Social and Economic Studies, adviser to Mrs. Hanna Hopko, Chairperson,
Committee for Foreign Affairs, Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine. He started as journalist and lecturer, and worked for the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Ukraine since 1986, dealing with Regional, European affairs, Information policy and Civil society relations. He used to be Minister-Counselor
in the Ukrainian Embassy in Ottawa and was posted as Ambassador to Egypt, Kenya and Sudan (with residence in Cairo), and the European Union. In
the years 2005-2008 Mr Veselovsky was Deputy Minister at the MFA of Ukraine. He is familiar with the activity of regional fora and formats, in
particular as Ukraine's National coordinator to CEI, National coordinator to GUAM and Political representative in the negotiations on Transniestrian
settlement (5+2 format).
DAY 2
Plenary Panel 3: The Crisis in Ukraine Lessons (not)Learned from the Western Balkans
Žarko Puhovski was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1946. After his studies in Zagreb (physics and political sciences) and Frankfurt (philosophy) he
became an assistant to and then a professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Zagreb; he retired in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Institute for
Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin, the European University center for Peace Studies in
Stadtschlaining (Austria) and at the University of Klagenfurt. Prof. Puhovski lectures occasionally at universities in Berlin, London, Oxford, Budapest,
Madrid, Bologna, etc. and is a member of the Transcend network, of the Advisory Panel of the European Journal of Philosophy and of the Standing
committee on intersocietal relations of the Ethikon Institute, Los Angeles. He was awarded the European Club of Rectors Extraordinary Award for
Peace and against Xenophobia in 1993. He has written numerous studies and essays and seven books (Interest and Community, 1975; Context of
Culture, 1979; History and Revolution, 1980; Reason and Society, 1989; Socialist Construction of Reality, 1990; Dictionary of Basic Political Terms,
1990; Politics and Economy of Transition, 1993). Moreover, he has written numerous articles on these issues and problems connected with postcommunist transition and the post-Yugoslav wars which have been printed in English and German. Prof. Puhovski was a co-founder of the rst
alternative political movement in former Yugoslavia in 1988, and of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for human rights in 1993.
James Sherr is an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House (having been Head of Programme 2008-11), a Senior
Associate Fellow of the Institute of Statecraft and a Visiting Fellow of the Razumkov Centre, Kyiv. Born in New York in 1951, Mr Sherr holds British and
US citizenship. He is a graduate of Montclair High School (1969) and graduated with Highest Honours from Oberlin College in 1974. Between 19932012, he was a member of the Social Studies Faculty of the University of Oxford. From 1995-2008, he was a Fellow of the Advanced Research
Assessment Group and Con ict Studies Research Centre of the UK Defence Academy. He has produced over 100 publications on Russia, Ukraine and
European security. Recent publications include, The Mortgaging of Ukraine's Independence (Chatham House 2010), 'The Russia-EU Energy
Relationship: Getting it Right' (International Spectator, June 2010), 'Hard Power in the Black Sea Region: A Dreaded but Crippled Instrument' (Journal
of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, September 2011)
Chair:
Vessela Tcherneva is ECFR's Programme Director and Head of ECFR So a Office. She is the co-founder of So a Platform, a venue for dialogue
between members of NGOs, the media, and politics from Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. From 2010 to 2013 she was the spokesperson
for the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the political cabinet of Foreign Minister Nickolay Mladenov. She has been the head of the
Bulgarian office of the European Council for Foreign Relations since 2008, as well as programme director for Foreign Policy Studies at the Centre for
Liberal Strategies in So a. Between 2004 and 2006 she was secretary of the International Commission on the Balkans, chaired by former Italian prime
minister Giuliano Amato. She has been a supervising editor for Foreign Policy Bulgaria magazine since its launch in 2005.
DAY 2
Session 6: Germany, the Reluctant Leader of Europe?
The word "reluctant" has been used extensively in describing Germany's role in Europe. The question this adjective begs is how did it come about that
Germany became the single leader in Europe and was it was forced into this position? From the Eurozone to Ukraine, its leadership has been criticized
for alleged passivity in tackling major crises. This comes against the backdrop of Germany's undeniable success. Being the leader of social and
macroeconomic policies as well as a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship, Germany has effectively become Europe's dominant country.
Moreover, being the principal paymaster, Germany has found itself playing the role of leader in the Eurozone. This, in turn, has led to an increasingly
dominant role in the European Union as a whole. Washington has also noted this shift in the balance of power and the primary point of contact for US
foreign policy in Europe is no longer London, but Berlin. We might conclude that Germany was not forced into the leading position but that the
weaknesses of other partners and of the EU's administration provided Germany with the space to position itself at the steering wheel.
Discussion topics:
1. What kind of leadership does Europe need?
2. Is Germany being forced into the leadership role?
3. What does the internal discussion in Germany say about its role in Europe
4. Is there a German model for Europe, and what does it look like?
Speakers:
Angus Lapsley joined the UK civil service in 1991, working in the Department of Health and then the UK Representation to the EU, before serving
John Major and then Tony Blair as Home Affairs Private Secretary. In 1999 he joined the Foreign Office, leading the EU Institutions Unit during the
negotiations of the Nice Treaty. Posted to Paris between 2001 and 2005, he followed foreign and security policy issues. From 2006 he was Deputy
Balkans Co-ordinator in the FCO, and from 2006 – 2010 he was Counsellor and head of the Common & Foreign Security Policy (CFSP), CSDP and EU
Enlargement team at the UK Representation to the EU. In 2010 he became Director (Americas) in the FCO, overseeing the UK's diplomatic operations
in the region, before moving to the Cabinet Office as Director in the European and Global Issues Secretariat in April 2012. He oversaw bilateral
relations, EU institutional policy, EU external policies and a range of global economic issues. He also led the Cabinet Office's role on the review of the
balance of competences between the UK and the EU. In March 2015, he became the UK's Political and Security Ambassador to the EU, where he
represents the UK on the EU committee that deals with all Common Foreign and Security (CFSP) policy issues. He also covers Common Security and
Defence Policy (CSDP), Trade and Development dossiers.
DAY 2
Session 6: Germany, the Reluctant Leader of Europe?
Dr. Michael Schaefer studied law in Munich, Geneva, and Heidelberg where he passed his Second State Examination in Law in 1978. In the same year,
he joined the Foreign Service. After postings at the United Nations in New York from 1981 to 1984 he served as Permanent Representative at the German
Embassy in Singapore from 1987 to 1991 and as head of the Political Affairs Section at the German Permanent Mission to the Office of the United Nations
in Geneva from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002, Dr Schaefer was head of the Western Balkans Task Force and subsequently Deputy Political Director and
Special Envoy for Southeast Europe at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. From 2002 to 2007, he was Political Director of the Federal Foreign Office,
before being appointed Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, a post he held until June 2013. Since July 1, 2013, he has been Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the BMW Herbert Quandt Stiftung. Dr Schaefer is the author of numerous articles and monographs on foreign and security policy
issues. Among other positions he is honorary professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, a member of the German Group of
the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) and a board member of the United
Nations Association of Germany (DGVN).
François Heisbourg is chairman of the council of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and of the London-based International Institute for Strategic
Studies. He is special advisor of the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherché Stratégique. His career has included positions in government (member of
the French mission to the UN, international security adviser to the Minister of Defence), industry (vice-president of Thomson-CSF, ie the present-day
Thales; senior vice president strategy at Matra Défense Espace, today part of EADS) and academia (professor of the world politics course at Sciences-Po
Paris, director of the IISS). He is a member of the International council of CNRS (the French Scienti c Research Council), and has sat on a number of
national and international blue-ribbon bodies (notably the French Defence and national security White Paper (2007 and 2012), the International
Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, the International Commission on the Balkans, the EU Commission's group of personalities
on security research and development). He has written extensively on defence and security issues and is a frequent contributor to both specialist and
main-stream media on such matters. His latest book is “La Fin du rêve européen”, Paris, éditions Stock, 2013.
Amb. Cameron Munter has been named the Chief Executive Officer of the EastWest Institute, effective August 1, 2015. Munter has been a career
diplomat, serving in some of the most con ict-ridden areas of the globe. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan from 2010-2012, where he guided
U.S.-Pakistani relations through a strained period, including the operation against Osama bin Laden, while leading a 2,500-employee embassy.
Previously he served as Ambassador to Serbia, where he negotiated Serbian domestic consensus for European integration and managed the Kosovo
independence crisis. Munter also served at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, overseeing U.S. civilian and military cooperation in planning the drawdown of
U.S. troops. In Europe, he served in the Czech Republic and Poland, where he helped manage the American contribution to those countries' integration
into the global economy. He was a Director at the National Security Council at the White House, and had numerous other domestic assignments at the
State Department in Washington.Before joining the Foreign Service, Munter taught European history at the University of California Los Angeles. He also
taught at Columbia University School of Law and has two honorary doctoral degrees. For the past two years, Munter has been Professor of International
Relations at Pomona College in Claremont, California, as well as a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Born in California in
1954, Munter graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned a doctorate in Modern European History from John Hopkins University.
DAY 2
Session 6: Germany, the Reluctant Leader of Europe?
Prof. Adam Rotfeld is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Co-Chairman of the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters and a member of
the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project. He was the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) from 1990 to 2002, a member of the UN SG's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters from 2006 to 2011 (he chaired the ABDM in 2008) and a
member of the NATO Group of Experts (Wisemen Group) on a new Strategic Concept of Alliance (2009-2010). His areas of expertise are the theory and
practice of international security and human rights, con ict solution, arms control and disarmament. He has published more than 20 monographs
and about 450 articles and studies. His most recent books are Poland in an Uncertain World (2006), Where is the World Headed? (2008), NATO 2020:
Assured Security; Dynamic Engagement (2010), White Spots – Black Spots. Difficult Matters in Polish-Russian Relations 1918-2008 (Eds. Adam D.
Rotfeld and Anatoly W. Torkunov; 2010); In Shadow (2012). Prof Rotfeld is a Member of European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR), the European
Leadership Network (ELN), the Aspen Ministers Forum (AMF) and other national and international boards, committees and scienti c councils. He is a
professor of
Moderator:
Sandra Breka was appointed Senior Vice President of the Robert Bosch Stiftung in April 2013. In this position she is Head of the Berlin Representative
Office and responsible for the liaison with private and public partners in Berlin. Furthermore, her portfolio includes the Robert Bosch Academy, a
newly established multilateral and interdisciplinary think tank, as well as the foundation's efforts with regard to peace & con ict transformation with
an outreach to a wide range of countries. She joined the Robert Bosch Stiftung as Program Director in January 2001. As Head of its Berlin Office from
2006 to 2013, she was responsible for programs focusing on Southeast Europe, transatlantic relations and India as well as Global Issues. Previously,
Sandra Breka served as Program Director for Southeastern Europe, transatlantic relations and security issues at the Aspen Institute Berlin after an
assignment with the American Council on Germany in New York City. She is affiliated with several international institutions. She is a Member of the
Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED). After her studies in Germany, France and the
United States, she obtained her MA at Columbia University in New York. She was a Yale World Fellow in 2008.
DAY 2
Session 7: Keeping NATO Strong and Relevant:
What Priorities Toward the Warsaw Summit 2016?
In partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States/Balkan Trust for Democracy
As the world becomes an ever smaller and faster evolving place, threats in all forms - from military to economic to cyber to energy security - continue
to challenge the freedom and security that we have come to expect. To preserve the free societies that NATO was created to protect, the allies need to
understand the threats, determine NATO's role in addressing them, generate and sustain the political will to act when necessary and the economic
and military capability to tackle the threats effectively. The 2014 NATO Summit in Wales was an important step toward realigning NATO with the
realities of a new security environment. With that step came an ambitious timeline – requiring NATO to address some of the most pressing issues in
the immediate term – and demonstrating real progress prior to the next summit in Warsaw in 2016.
Discussion topics:
1. Will the implementation of the Readiness Action Plan succeed to assure all allies and show NATO's resolve from the Baltics to the Black Sea to the
Mediterranean?
2. How can we encourage member states to spend on defense?
3. What elements can drive a new political dialogue with NATO's partners and the further integration of the Balkans in particular?
4. What should NATO's future agenda and priorities be beyond the 2016 Summit? Will the transatlantic allies nd a new security consensus and ensure
NATO's continued realignment with the changing security environment?
Speakers:
Amb. Miomir Udovički is currently the Head of Mission of the Republic of Serbia to NATO. Previously, he was Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for
Security Policy and Head of the Working Group on Chapter 31 in the Accession Negotiations with the EU. He started his career in 1985 as the Second
Secretary of the SFRY Embassy in PR China, and after that continued his career as the Chief of Cabinet both to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. After postings in New Delhi and London, he became the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Republic of Serbia to PR China and a Non-Resident Ambassador to DPR Korea, Mongolia and Pakistan. He is married with two sons. Speaks English and
Chinese language.
DAY 2
Session 7: Keeping NATO Strong and Relevant:
What Priorities Toward the Warsaw Summit 2016?
In partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States/Balkan Trust for Democracy
Brig. Gen. Giselle M. Wilz has taken over the command of NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 9 June 2015. In this position
she will advise local authorities regarding military aspects of security sector reform and command the forces of the North Atlantic Alliance operating
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her duties will include cooperation with the European Union Force (EUFOR) to ensure a stable and secure environment in
the country and the respect of the General Framework Agreement for Peace concluded at Dayton. In addition, she is to consult with local authorities
on the implementation activities of the NATO Partnership for Peace program and further reforms needed for successful membership in the North
Atlantic Alliance. General Wilz was previously the Head of Staff for the Army National Guard of North Dakota. Born in Richardton, North Dakota, where
she began her military career in November 1983, General Wilz received the rank of lieutenant in 1986 and since then has performed various command
positions, from platoon commander, detachment commander, company commander, operations officer, executive officer, battalion commander,
operations officer for the brigade to brigade commander. Being at the forefront is not unusual for General Wilz, who was the rst female colonel, chief
of staff and general in the North Dakota Army National Guard before becoming Commander of NHQSa. She comes from a family with a strong military
background that includes her father and three of her ve siblings. Between them, they have more than 165 years of military service.
Tamir G. Waseras an experienced diplomat with strong professional background in the Balkans, has served as Principal Deputy to the High
Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Brcko Supervisor. In addition, Mr. Waser served as Political Counselor in the Embassy of the United
States of America in Bosnia and Herzegovina from July 2011 to September 2013. Serving as the Contact Group Coordinator for the State Department's
Office for South Central Europe from August 2004 to August 2005, Mr. Waser coordinated US policy for and participation in the six-nation Contact
group for Kosovo. From August 2009 to August 2010, Mr. Waser was Special Assistant to the US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, advising on
all issues related to the European, Economic and Legal bureaus of the Department of State. From September 2002 to August 2004, he served as NATO
Operations officer in the State Department's Office for Regional Political-Military Affairs, with responsibility for NATO missions in the Balkans,
including the end of NATO operation in Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and the establishment of EU missions. Tamir G. Waser attended the
University of Virginia, where he obtained his B.A. in History and Foreign Affairs and an M.A. in Foreign Affairs. His foreign language skills include
Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Latvian, Spanish and Hebrew.
DAY 2
Session 7: Keeping NATO Strong and Relevant:
What Priorities Toward the Warsaw Summit 2016?
In partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States/Balkan Trust for Democracy
Claudia Major, Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), whose elds of interest include Common
Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), crisis management, armed forces, German defense and security policy, and NATO has an extensive working
experience with some of Germany and Europe's most prominent think-tanks. Ms. Major has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques/Sciences Paris
starting in 2006. She has been member of the Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention of the Federal Foreign Office since 2010. From 2008-2009
she worked for the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich; she spent one year at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EU ISS), has been
Fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Program, and worked in public affairs at IPA Network Berlin, from 2001 to 2003. She
started her professional career in German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in 2000.
Moderator:
Ivan Vejvoda is Senior Vice President for programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2003-10, he served as executive director
of GMF's Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions in Southeastern Europe. Vejvoda came to GMF in
2003 from distinguished service in the Serbian government as senior advisor on foreign policy and European integration to Prime Ministers
ZoranDjindjic and ZoranZivkovic. Prior to that, he served as Executive Director of the Belgrade-based Fund for an Open Society from 1998 to 2002.
During the mid-1990s, Vejvoda held various academic posts in the United States and the U.K., including one-year appointments at Smith College in
Massachusetts and Macalester College in Minnesota, and a three-year research fellowship at the University of Sussex in England. Vejvoda was a key
gure in the democratic opposition movement in Yugoslavia through the 1990s, and is widely published on the subjects of democratic transition,
totalitarianism, and post-war reconstruction in the Balkans. He is a member of the Serbian Pen Club and is a board member of U.S. social science
journals Constellations and Philosophy and Social Criticism. Vejvoda has been awarded the French National Order of Merit in the rank of Officer and the
Order of the Italian Star of Solidarity, second rank (Commendatore). He holds a diploma from Institutd'EtudesPolitiques de Paris and completed
postgraduate studies in philosophy at Belgrade University. He speaks uent English, French, and Italian in addition to his native Serbian.
DAY 2
Session 8: Privatization of Security in Transforming Societies Main Challenges to Democratic Governance
In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces DCAF
The number of private security companies (PSCs) grows steadily in countries of the Western Balkans. Some PSCs have taken over tasks previously
performed by state security. While most countries have laws that regulate the activities of PSCs, we rarely discuss what role PSCs should have in
national security structures and how their involvement in ensuring national and human security should be like. To answer these questions one has to
know more about how these companies work; how governments and legislators can ensure that PSCs help to make our lives more and not less secure;
and how we can we ensure that our safety needs do not become secondary to commercial considerations.
Discussion topics:
1. What are the responsibilities if the state that hires PSCs?
2. Are public procurement rules and regulations helping to ensure a good delivery of security?
3. How can PSCs and state actors work better together to ensure the delivery of quality security?
4. What are the opportunities of Public private partnerships and what are the main obstacles when we speak of PSCs and police?
Speakers:
Ivan Funčić was born in Rijeka in 1976 and holds a MRSC in economics. He graduated at the Faculty of Economics in Rijeka in 2001 and nished his
Magister degree on the European market of private security in 2010 at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana. He has been working at the rm Protecta
since 2002 in a variety of different positions, and since 2011 he has been the Director. After the formation of Securitas Croatia, he became the Area
Manager for the western region.
DAY 2
Session 8: Privatization of Security in Transforming Societies Main Challenges to Democratic Governance
In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces DCAF
Rositsa Dzhekova is Coordinator of the Security Program of the Center for the Study of Democracy, So a. Her research at CSD is related to crime and
corruption, informal and underground economies, private security sector, policing, border security and radicalization. Between 2013-2014 Rositsa
was Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield (UK) within the FP7 project “GREY”, where she conducted research on the social,
economic and psychological factors and drivers of the shadow economy, and evaluated policy measures to tackling the informal sector in Southeast
Europe. Previously she worked as a political analyst and corporate investigations consultant at the global risk consultancy Control Risks in Berlin and
London, where she provided in-depth risk assessments and forecasts related to organized crime, security and terrorism risks, political stability,
corruption and state capture in the Balkan region. She further conducted corruption audits, fraud investigations, integrity due diligence and litigation
support for international clients operating in Southeast Europe. Rositsa holds a BA in Political Science from the Free University Berlin (Germany) and
an MA in Social Research from the University of Sheffield (UK).
Moderator:
Alan Bryden is Assistant Director and Head of the Public Private Partnerships Division at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed
Forces (DCAF). Focus areas include the regulation of private military and security companies, cyber security governance and multi-stakeholder
engagement on business, human rights and security issues, in particular with the global extractives sector. Prior to joining DCAF, Alan was a civil
servant with the UK Ministry of Defence, holding various policy and project management posts including focal point for international humanitarian
law. Alan was also seconded to the UK Department for International Development, working as a project manager in the eld of humanitarian
demining. He holds a PhD from the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford and is widely published in the eld of security sector
governance.
DAY 2
Special Side Event: Awarding of the Honorary Citizen of Belgrade T
itle to Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg
(Upon Separate Invitation)
Thorvald Stoltenberg represents one of the key international gures whose personal history is inextricably linked to the history of Yugoslavia and
Serbia.
Few know that rst contact with our people was through the barbed wire,as he – still a child – was one of many sympathetic Norwegians who
smuggled food and medication to the Yugoslavs interred in the camps Nazi Germany established in northern Norway. This personal gesture of
kindness had grown into a lifetime bond, after he, as the rst secretary of the Norwegian Embassy in Belgrade in the 1960's, contributed to the
development of the relationship between Yugoslavia and Norway, which ourished after the end of the Second World War.
As an already accomplished and successful statesman, he arrived to Belgrade for the second time under very different circumstances, as the appointed
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, with the goal of negotiating peace in war-torn Yugoslavia. In his book “Det handler om
mennesker”(It's all about the people), he described this post as the most difficult in his career. Arriving in Belgrade as one of the people who forged
the Oslo Accords, he stated that he had been “[…] mediating in different parts of the world, but the main actors there wanted to negotiate. However,
in the Balkans I was not convinced that the main actors really wanted to negotiate, but rather to win the war.”
As one of the main proponents of the idea of the Nordic cooperation model, Mr. Stoltenberg has maintained that one of the best solutions for the
Balkans would be to recreate such a model within the framework of the EU, as a key to security and economic stability in the region.
Thorvald Stoltenberg will become one of the 30 people who officially befriended the city of Belgrade on October 1, to the honor of both Serbia and its
capital, proud to have a man of such stature as its honorary citizen.
DAY 2
Special Side Event: Awarding of the Honorary Citizen of Belgrade T
itle to Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg
(Upon Separate Invitation)
Thorvald Stoltenberg was born in Oslo in 1931. He received a Law Degree in 1957 after studying in the USA, Switzerland, Austria and Finland. A
Norwegian diplomat and politician in the Labor party,he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1987 to 1989, 1990-1993 and was Minister of
Defense from 1979 to 1981. Also, he was Deputy Minister at theMinistry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Commerce and
Shipping.
Stoltenberg has served as Norway's Ambassador to Denmark from 1996 to 1999. He started his diplomatic career at the Norwegian Foreign Service in
San Francisco (1959-61), with periods spent in Belgrade (1961-64) and Lagos (1970). His international commissions include UN Peace Negotiator in
former Yugoslavia 1993-1996, UN High Commissioner for Refugees 1989-1990 and Ambassador to Norway's Permanent Mission to the UN 1989.
From 1999 and 2008 he was President of the Norwegian Red Cross, the only president to serve three terms.
DAY 3 October 2, 2015
9.00 - 9.30
Registration of the Participants
9.30 - 11.00
Breakout Sessions (simultaneously organized smaller sessions, off the record)
Session 9: The Russian Dilemma: What Kind of International Order is Russia Seeking?
Beograd Room
Speakers:
Marcus Felsner, Chairman, Osteuropaverein (the Eastern Europe Business Association of Germany)
Sharyl Cross, Director, Kozmetsky Center, St. Edward's University Austin and Global Policy Fellow, Kennan Institute Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
Timur Makhmutov, Deputy Director of Programs, Russian International Affairs Council
Pavol Demeš, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Moderator: Vladimir Baranovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Centre for Situation Analysis (CSA), Member of the Board of the Institute of World
Economy and International Relations IMEMO
Session 10: New Ways of Energy Exploitation: Changing the Habitat for Good - or Bad
Kopaonik Room
Speakers:
Garett Tankosić-Kelly, Principal and Founder, SEE Change
Aleksandar Kovačević, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Julian Popov, Fellow, European Climate Foundation; Chairman, Board of Directors, Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE)
Stephen Tindale, Climate and Energy Consultant and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, London
Moderator: H.E. Milan Simurdić, Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Norway and Iceland
DAY 3 October 2, 2015
Session 11: When Nations Move: The Failure of Migration Policies
Budva Room
Speakers:
Anna Terrón i Cusí, President of InStrategies
Radoš Đurović, Executive Director, Asylum Protection Center
Despina Syrri, Expert Advisor, Regional Cooperation Council
Moderator: Vladimir Petronijević, Executive Director, Group 484
11.30 - 13.30
Plenary Panel 4: Improving the European Model of Governance: Ways Forward
Crystal Ballroom
Speakers:
H.E. Michael Davenport, Head of EU Delegation to Serbia
Franco Frattini, President, Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI)
Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform, Chairwoman of the Basic Values Commission of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Ulrike Guérot, Founder and Director, European Democracy Lab, European School of Governance
Žaneta Ozoliņa, Professor, Department of political science, University of Latvia
Željko Jovanović, Director, Roma Initiatives Office, Open Society Foundations
Chair: Goran Buldioski, Director, Think Tank Fund, Open Society Foundations
13.30 - 13.50
Closing Address
Crystal Ballroom
Keynote Address
H.E. Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia
13.50 - 14.20
Closing Adress
Sonja Licht, President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Maja Bobić, Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia
Sonja Stojanović Gajić, Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
DAY 3
Session 9: The Russian Dilemma: What Kind of
International Order is Russia Seeking?
The premise of an international order de ned by the West is not any longer simply shared by the “rest”. Not surprisingly, Russia has its own ideas what
kind of international order should be established. When one asks the Russians, reasons for their aggressive (previously called: assertive) foreign policy
are many. Their ruling class felt that Russia was disregarded, disrespected, and marginalized. They came to believe that Russia's opposition to projects
or decisions had no effect and that its security interests were not accepted as equal to those of its Western counterparts. Furthermore, Russia sees
NATO as an alliance directed speci cally against Moscow. It believes that key European countries have instrumentalized the EU for the same purpose,
and it detects critical developments almost everywhere: in Ukraine, Syria, in Moldova and Georgia, in the courting of India, and in the deepening of
relations with China.
Putin has responded by putting forward policies based on a wider interpretation of Russian nationalism. He has set the project of a Eurasian Union
against EU expansion. He has increased Russia's attention to global powers and emerging players. He has placed renewed emphasis on military power
and presence, and he has increased his involvement in global status politics. For Russia, the Cold War had elements of sharp difference and
competition, but was based on an accepted status quo, on strategic parity, and on political respect. And it involved both sides cooperating to reinforce
both parity and respect. Russia now seems dead set on returning to this state of relations.
From a Western perspective, even if Russia is viewed as an opponent, it will still make sense to engage Russia on economic cooperation and to seek
ways of building interdependence with it. However such cooperation is unlikely to be as comprehensive or as deep as it could have become under the
premise of partnership.
Discussion topics:
1. Which are the values that Russia shares with the EU?
2. What are the implications of Russia's new interventionism?
3. Can Russia and the EU function without each other, bearing in mind future challenges?
4. What are the effects of sanctions and counter-sanctions between Russia and the EU?
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Session 9: The Russian Dilemma: What Kind of
International Order is Russia Seeking?
Speakers:
Marcus Felsner is the President of Osteuropaverein der deutschenWirtschaft, the Eastern Europe Business Association of Germany. Osteuropaverein
is the largest association of German business organizations operating in 29 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, South Eastern Europe, the
Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. Dr Felsner is a Managing Partner of Rödl& Partner, the largest global professional service rm of German origin. A
German attorney by trade, he joined Rödl& Partner in 1999, following professional experience in France, Italy and, with the U.N. in Geneva,
Switzerland. Rödl& Partner provides legal, tax, accounting, IT and other support services for cross-border investments in some 100 countries across
the globe and has been active in practically all countries of Central & Eastern Europe since 1991. Dr Felsner is a frequent speaker on foreign trade and
investment and has published widely on EU affairs and EU relations especially with Eastern European and Central Asian countries. He is a trustee of IEP
(Institut für Europäische Politik) in Berlin and a board member and/or trustee at numerous foreign trade & investment organizations in Germany.
Prof. Sharyl Cross has been a Professor in the College of International & Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security
Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany, and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado
Springs, USA. Prof. Cross holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has published extensively on issues of Russian foreign policy,
U.S.-Russian security relations, and South Eastern European security. She is currently working on her next book co-authored with Paul J. Bolt entitled
China, Russia, and Twenty First Century Global Geopolitics published by Oxford University Press.
Timur Makhmutov graduated from MGIMO University, School of Political Science. He started his carrier as a lecturer in the Political Theory
Department of MGIMO. For four years he has held courses on political management, published several articles and two books on political processes in
Russia and their socio-economic impact on international cooperation with special attention to the processes of marginalization. He specializes mainly
on the countries of the Middle East and post-soviet states. Since 2011 he has worked with the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) as Deputy
Program Director. He is a member of the RIAC Editors Group for reports and working papers. Within his activity for RIAC his sphere of interest centers
on public diplomacy and the role that academic circles and universities might play in this form of international interaction.
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Session 9: The Russian Dilemma: What Kind of
International Order is Russia Seeking?
Pavol Demeš from Bratislava, is an author, photographer and a Slovakia-based expert on international relations and civil society. Prior to the Velvet
Revolution, MrDemeš was a biomedical researcher at Comenius University in Bratislava. He graduated from the Charles University in Prague. After the
democratic changes in 1989 he created several NGOs and worked for the Slovak government, rst at the Ministry for Education, later as Minister of
International Relations (1991-2) and as a Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Slovak Republic Michal Kovac. From 2000 to 2010 he was the
Director for Central and Eastern Europe of the German Marshall Fund of the United States based in Bratislava. Now he is a non-resident senior fellow
with GMF US and a board member of the European Endowment for Democracy. He has his own program on international relations and diplomacy on
an Internet TV (tablet.tv) of the Slovak Press Agency.
Moderator:
Vladimir Baranovsky is director of Centre for situation analysis at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a senior member of the Moscow-based
think tank Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) where he was deputy director since in 1998-2014 and is currently
member of the board. He has Dr.Sc. degree in history (1985) and is full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academician, 2011). He is also
professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) and was a visiting professor in a number of universities in Europe;
in 1992-1997 he worked as project leader at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is a member of various analyst structures,
expert and consultative councils, advisory and/or editorial boards of professional journals both in Russia and in other countries. He authored and
edited over 200 publications (books, articles, contributions to multi-authored volumes etc.). Among selected titles: Russia and Europe: Emerging
Security Agenda (1997); The Dynamics of Russian Missile Defense Policy (2002); Regional Security Cooperation in the Former Soviet Area (2007); La
fabrique de la politiqueétrangèrerusse (2008); Foreign policy cycle: from Gorbachev to Putin (2010); Transformation of the European political space
(2010); The International System: Emerging New Realities (2014), From Kosovo to the Crimea (forthcoming).
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Session 10: New Ways of Energy Exploitation:
Changing the Habitat for Good or Bad
Investment in energy sector(s) in countries of South East Europe (SEE) is rising. Largely outdated and inefficient energy systems are in dire need of
repair and modernization. Markets have been de-regulated and liberalized. Renewable sources of energy are being explored (as well as some which
are not; see for instance: shale oil). Given EU's ambitious plans for SEE's energy market (28.8 billion EUR by 2020), the ever present need for secure
sources of energy, and far-reaching implications of decisions made in this eld. With all this in mind, our panel aims to ask following questions:
1.Within the different models of global development, which types of energy production can generate sustainable growth?
2.How are new means of energy exploitation affecting our lives?
3.Are we witnessing a shift in the global apprehension towards climate change?
4.How is the region of the Western Balkans handling the mitigation of climate change, in light of meeting EU standards?
Speakers:
Garret Tankosić-Kelly is the founder and Principal of SEE Change Net Foundation (SEECN). He's the producer for OH! Films on the BAFTA award
winning lm Finding Family and, as the former Head of United Nations in Montenegro, the initiator of the world rst UN Eco Premises in Podgorica.
Garret is also an Honorary Director of EDUS - the association for the education and support for children with and without developmental delays - and a
board member of Out of the Box, a Brussels-based think tank. In addition to his native English, he speaks Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian/Montenegrin. A
frequent guest speaker for international and regional media including Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC and regular presenter at WTO, UNESCO, TI, WWF, ECF and
UNEP conferences in the region of South East Europe, Garret lives in and works from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He earned his degree in
Geography & Philosophy, as well as a Masters in Environmental Management, both from University College Dublin and is currently completing his
M.Sc. Thesis in International Organisation Management. He has worked in Ireland, Republic of South Africa, Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, USA, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Romania and Kosovo.
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Session 10: New Ways of Energy Exploitation:
Changing the Habitat for Good or Bad
Aleksandar Kovačević holds a degree in energy economics from the Belgrade University. He started his professional career with the Federal
Productivity Institute of Former Yugoslavia in 1986. He has been providing strategic advice, complex energy efficiency solutions and emergency
situation assistance to major institutional, nancial and private clients for over 20 years, including assistance to UN OCHA to coordinate rapid
reconstruction of Serbia's energy infrastructure after the 1999 war. He was an associate in PlanEcon until 1992, project manager for Tagarnrog
Development project in Russia (1992-1998) and contributor to the Black Sea and Central Asia panel at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He
is the principal author of the energy poverty analysis Stuck in the Past (UNDP, 2004), co-author of the Western Balkans Energy Policy Survey
(IEA/UNDP, 2008) and Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (PEIR) for Serbia and Montenegro (World Bank, 2003), as well as a number of
papers, lectures and media contributions. His publications also include The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Gas Crisis in South Eastern Europe and The
Potential Contribution of Natural Gas to Sustainable Development in South Eastern Europe. Mr. Kovačević has been a member of the Advisory Board of
the Russian Power conference since 2002 and the UNECE Group of experts in sustainable energy, as well as a regular consultant to the World Bank and
contributor to the Oil and Gas Economy and Law (OGEL) network. He is a laureate of the Innovation Award at the Power Gen Europe Conference in
2002.
Julian Popov is a former Bulgarian Minister for the Environment, a Fellow of the European Climate Foundation and Chairman of the Building
Performance Institute Europe. He is a Founding Member of the Governing Board of the So a Platform and was the founding Vice-Chancellor and a
current member of the Board of the New Bulgarian University, one of the top 3 universities in Bulgaria (13,000 students), former Chairman of the
Bulgarian School of Politics (working with senior politicians and civil society leaders from South East Europe, the Western Balkans and North Africa).
He co-founded the Tunisian School of Politics (established following the Arab Spring) in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the Dutch and
Finnish Governments. Julian is author of two books and co-author of another two and has published a large number of articles on EU environmental,
energy and climate policies, EU enlargement and sustainable development in leading international media (the Financial Times, the Independent, the
BBC, the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, GazetaWyborcha, the EU Observer, European Voice and others).
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Session 10: New Ways of Energy Exploitation:
Changing the Habitat for Good or Bad
Stephen Tindale has 26 years of experience working in various roles within the energy and climate sectors. He is currently the Director of the Alvin
Weinberg Foundation, advocating innovation and delivery of safe, secure and sustainable nuclear power. He also does consultancy work for Tidal
Lagoon Power and for the ReEnergise Group, and is an adviser to the Shale Gas Task Force. Stephen also runs the website Climate Answers
(www.climateanswers.info), which tries to present information on climate issues in an accessible way, and to identify what should be supported
rather than simply what should be opposed, as most NGOs do. He tweets @STindale. Stephen has long been in favour of community energy having coauthored, with Prashant Vaze, the book "Repowering commmunties: Small scale solutions to large scale problems" (Earthscan, June 2011). Previous
roles have included: Head of Communications and Public Affairs for RWE npower renewables; Executive Director of Greenpeace UK and Chairman of
the Greenpeace European Unit; adviser to Environment Minister Michael Meacher; founder of IPPR Environment Group; adviser to Shadow
Environment Secretary Chris Smith, diplomat at UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Moderator:
H.E. Milan Simurdić is a Serbian political scientist and diplomat, currently serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Kingdom of
Norway. From 2001 – 2005 he served as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (and then Serbia and Montenegro) to Croatia. From the end
of 2008 he was Vice-President of the European Movement in Serbia and President of its International Relations Forum. He graduated from the Faculty
of Political Science at the University of Belgrade and worked subsequently on the Committee for International Cooperation in the Vojvodina Executive
Council, followed by a stint in the Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs. From 1988 to 1993, he served in the position of First Secretary of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia in Budapest, Hungary. He specializes in energy security.
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Session 11: When Nations Move: The Failure of Migration Policies
More than 350,000 people entered the EU since the beginning of the year. Some call them migrants, some call them refugees, but the essence is that
these people have left their homes and countries eeing the atrocities of war, hunger and disease. People are dying in the desert, at sea, along the
road towards a better future, even in the Channel tunnel between Great Britain and France. All of this depicts their despair and their readiness to do
whatever they can to reach better life.
EU member states are choosing extreme measures, coming close to violations of human rights. Bulgaria is trying to keep migrants out with a high
steel security fence along its frontier with Turkey. Malta keeps them away from tourists in squalid camps on the south of the island. Hungary has also
started to build a fence on its border with Serbia and those who somehow come through are locked up in prison cells or overcrowded army barracks. In
Greece, conditions are so bad that most prefer to head for Italy, which tries to move them on as soon as possible. The Slovakian government stated that
they would accept only Christians since they maintain that Muslims would not feel welcome. All of this is happening at the beginning of 21st century
in Europe!
Arguably, one of the reasons why Europe is having such difficulty in facing this crisis is the fact that it has already been quite shaken by an economic
crisis the consequences of which are still visible in all EU countries. Stagnant economic growth, less need for the work force and the high
unemployment rate do not leave many opportunities for migrants. Perhaps multilateral action would be a step towards nding a solution to this
problem. The European Council tried something similar in May, but such a strategy ought to be based on solidarity instead of sel sh fears and
territorial protection. Nevertheless, dealing with the root causes underlying these migrations would be the best way to nd a solution to this crisis.
Discussion topics:
1. "There is no death, only migrations" (Miloš Crnjanski)
2. Are new walls and fences strengthening the EU or reinforcing "fortress Europe"?
3. What can be done to recognize migration as a valuable resource for the future?
4. What will happen with the EU's integrative capacities with regard to labour migration?
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Session 11: When Nations Move: The Failure of Migration Policies
Speakers:
Anna Terrón i Cusí is a President of InStrategies and Special Advisor to Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom on migration issues. Has been Special
Representative of the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat from 2013 until October 2015. Her career in the public sector has primarily focused on
the European Union and international affairs. Internationally, she has developed much of her activity in the Middle East and Maghreb, and in the
Atlantic Africa and Latin American regions. She has worked in the eld of international migration and human mobility. Former Secretary of State for
Immigration and Emigration of the Government of Spain (2010-2011) and former Secretary for the European Union of the Generalitat de Catalunya
and the Catalan Government Delegate to the European Union (2004-2010). She has been a member of the Committee of the Regions (spokesperson at
the Commission on Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs) and member of the European Parliament (1994-2004). She is also a
professor on migration policies at Blanquerna University (Barcelona). She holds a BA in Political Science and Public Administration.
Radoš Đurović is an Executive Director of the Asylum Protection Center, Serbian nongovernmental organization providing legal and psychosocial
aid to asylum seekers, refugees and persons forced to migrate to Serbia. Lawyer and international law postgraduate on the thesis "The right on
asylum in Serbia ". Ongoing international law PhD studies on Faculty of Law, Belgrade University. Since 2004 active in the civil sector in Serbia through
student associations and non-governmental organizations engaged in the eld of promotion and protection of human rights in Serbia. Awarded by
the Office of the President of the Republic of Serbia for demonstrated leadership potential and achievements in social activism. Refugee and asylum
law professional with domestic and international experience since 2007 One of the founder of Asylum Protection Center, working in the eld of
asylum since 2007 as lawyer and project manager on various projects concerning protection of asylum seekers.
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Session 11: When Nations Move: The Failure of Migration Policies
Despina Syrri is an Adviser to the Regional Cooperation Council in Sarajevo. She directs the rights organization Symβiosis and the Council of Europe
Civic School for Political Studies in Greece. Since 1988, she has worked with International Organizations, media, research centres and civil society
organizations in Southern Africa and Southeast Europe on post-con ict development, migration, refugees, social cohesion and integration. She has
also taught Political Science and Anthropology at the American College in Thessaloníki, published articles and chapters in Greek, South Slavic and
English, authored research papers and documentaries.
Moderator:
Vladimir Petronijević is an Executive Director of Group 484, for which he has worked since 2005. He is in charge of the organisation's internal
development, fund-raising, project management and external performance. He has worked as a Legal Adviser at the Office of the Deputy Prime
Minister for EU Integration Božidar Đelić and was responsible for legal affairs in the EU integration process related to visa liberalisation issues (the EU
visa liberalisation Road Map benchmarks were directly or indirectly related to refugees and IDPs). Vladimir Petronijević graduated from the Faculty of
Law at Belgrade University and he is a certi ed lawyer. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles
(ECRE). Furthermore, he is a member of the UNDP consultant group: an expert for the Human Development Report (refugees and IDPs), a consultant
on IDP employment issues and a consultant on the position of the diaspora within the Serbian Legal System. Mr. Petronijević is also a member of
National Council for EU Integration, the National Convention on the European Union (Justice and Home Affairs Section), the National Mirror
Committee for Corporate Social Responsibility Standards (ISO 26000), the Serbian Refugee Council and the Association of Lawyers for Criminal Law.
Moreover, he has conducted several research projects and participated in the development of numerous publications on refugees and human rights.
Mr. Petronijević also lectures on the above topics.
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Plenary Panel 4: Improving the European
Model of Governance: Ways Forward
According to the Copenhagen criteria, countries that wish to join the European Union have to meet the highest standards of democratic governance
and human rights. The doors of the EU remain tightly closed to countries that do not respect freedom of the press, equal rights for LGBT people or the
independence of the judiciary. But the EU is not nearly as strict when it comes to countries that are already member states. The EU has only a few weak
instruments available to ensure its members remain committed to democratic governance, the rule of law and fundamental rights, moreover, the
member states have little appetite for binding rules in those areas. In recent years, the EU has been unable and unwilling to discipline members of the
club who do not respect the rules. Fundamental rights continue to be violated repeatedly: the deportation of Roma people, anti-gay laws,
intimidation of the media, undermining the independence of the judiciary, clandestine mass surveillance programs, complicity in torture programs,
the manipulation and abuse of electoral laws to eliminate opposition parties, impunity for corruption and much more. In the absence of binding rules,
and in a climate of general disdain for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, member states do not feel bound in any way by the
standards they impose on candidate countries. Seemingly hamstrung by its limited competencies in this area and preoccupied by the economic crisis,
Brussels has been hesitant in its reaction to apparent democratic backsliding. Sooner or later, however, the EU will be forced to take a rmer stance on
the protection of democratic institutions within its member states.
Another arduous test of European democracy and inclusiveness is the current refugees/migrants crisis. Unfortunately, some EU countries have failed
this test miserably: refusing Muslim migrants, building barbed wire fences on borders, using tear gas, to mention but a few examples, reveal that
Europe today is not the open and inclusive society that it wished to be, or wanted to appear to be. Suggestions for solving this problem range from
harsh diplomatic sanctions (such as the suspension of diplomatic relations as was the case with Austria in 2000, which was never repeated) to the
adoption of some kind of document – a Democratic Governance Pact – which would be an effective instrument to ensure all its members abide by the
rules.
Discussion topics:
1. How to reinforce the citizens' belief that democracy still provides a more comprehensive answer to the challenges of the future than autocracy?
2. In reality, How inclusive are European societies and what needs to be done to make them more equal?
3. Is the idea of a common European voice an unful lled dream?
4. What is the future of representative democracy in Europe?
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Plenary Panel 4: Improving the European
Model of Governance: Ways Forward
Speakers:
H.E. Michael Davenport has been the Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Serbia since September 2013. Prior to this posting,
from January 2011, he had been the UK Ambassador to Serbia. Before coming to Serbia, he was Director for Russia, Central Asia and the South
Caucasus in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London. Between 2007 and 2010 he advised successive Foreign Secretaries on Britain's
relations with Russia and the wider region and was responsible for the FCO's network of twelve diplomatic missions. His rst foreign posting as a
British diplomat was to Poland in 1990, where he was responsible for establishing the rst British Know-How Fund, supporting Poland's early political
and economic reforms after the fall of Communism. In the mid-nineties he headed the FCO's UN Peacekeeping Section before learning Russian ahead
of a posting as First Secretary to Moscow in 1996. In 2000 he returned to Poland as Commercial Counsellor and Consul-General in the run-up to
Poland's accession to the European Union, and in 2004 he was appointed Deputy Ambassador to Cairo. Ambassador Davenport took his rst degree in
French and German language and literature at Cambridge University, after which he taught English at Graz University in Austria. Later he studied law
at the College of Law in London and quali ed as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1988, having trained at the City rm Macfarlanes.
Franco Frattini is President of SIOI (the Italian Society for International Organization) and UNA Italy (the UN Association for Italy). He is also the
Justice and Chamber President in the Italian Council of State. He served twice as Italian Foreign Minister (2002-2004 and 2008-2011), and as VicePresident of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security (2004-2008). Prior to this, he was Secretary-General of
the Prime Minister's Office (1994), President of the Parliamentary Committee for Intelligence and Security Services and State Secrets (1996), Minister
for the Civil Service and for the Coordination of Information and Security Services (2001-2002), and a member of the Prime Minister's Commission for
the Constitutional reforms (2013 - 2014). Since 2013 Franco Frattini has been a special advisor to the Serbian Prime Minister Alexandar Vučić and his
government on issues regarding the EU integration process. Mr Frattini is also President of the Italian High Court of Sports Justice of the Italian
National Olympic Committee (CONI).
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Plenary Panel 4: Improving the European
Model of Governance: Ways Forward
Prof. Gesine Schwan was born in 1943 in Berlin and is a political scientist. She graduated in Romance languages, history, philosophy and political
science in Berlin and Freiburg with study visits to Warsaw and Krakow. Since 1972, she has been a member of the SPD (German Social Democratic
Party) and has been chairing the Commission for Fundamental Values of the SPD since 2015. From 1977 to 1999 Prof. Schwan was a professor of
political science and from 1992 to 1994 Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Free University, Berlin. She became president of the European
University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1999 and has contributed signi cantly to its development. Between 2005 and 2009 she assumed the office
of Coordinator of the Federal Government for Civil Cooperation with the Republic of Poland. She stood as an electoral candidate in 2004, she was
nominated by SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen as candidate for the office of the Federal President of Germany in 2009. In March 2009, together with
other scientists Prof. Schwan founded the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance and from June 2010 to June 2014 was its President. She is
now president and co-founder of the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform in Berlin. She is chairperson of the Theodor-Heuss-Trustees and
the Academie de Berlin and a trustee of CARE, Welthungerhilfe, Ciera, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Technical University Berlin. She is
a member of the foundation council of the University of Lüneburg and the Prussian Maritime Foundation. Prof. Schwan has received numerous
awards, including the Marion Dönhoff Prize for international understanding and reconciliation in 2004, the Winfried Prize of the City of Fulda in 2011,
the Erich Fromm Prize in 2013 and an honorary doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence in 2006. She was awarded the Federal
Cross of Merit and the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order "Bene Merito" of the Republic of Poland and the Grand Officer
of the Legion of Honour of the Republic of France. In June 2015 Prof. Schwan was awarded the Order of Merit of Brandenburg.
Ulrike Guérot is a European publicist with more than 20 years experience in German-French affairs, European relations at large, and transatlantic
relations; she is committed to the idea of a res publica europaea. In April 2013, together with Robert Menasse, she published a manifesto for the
foundation of a European republic. In September 2013, in recognition of her achievements for German-French relations, she was invited to join the
German President's delegation to France. In 2011, the Italian Journal Limes listed her as one of the 100 European “Thought Leaders”. In 2003, she
received the French Order of Merit for her European commitment. Dr. Guérot is Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab at the European
School of Governance (EUSG). The Lab seeks to re-frame concepts such as democracy, federalism and legitimacy in ways that could enable the current
crisis to become a stimulus for positive change. Moreover, she regularly participates in conferences such as the Munich Security Conference, the
Ditchley Conferences, the Königswinter Conference and the Bergedorf Round Table. Since November 2013 Dr. Ulrike Guérot's blog “The Berlin
Notebook”, in which she deals with current European and transatlantic questions, is also published by the Atlantic Community.
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Plenary Panel 4: Improving the European
Model of Governance: Ways Forward
Žaneta Ozoliņa is a professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Latvia and the Director at the Centre for International Politics.
She was a member of the European Research Area Board between 2008 and 2012, as well as the Chairwoman of the Strategis Analysis Commission
under the Auspices of the President of Latvia between 2004 and 2008. Her research interests are European integration, translantic security, foreign
policy of the Baltic States, she is the author of more than 90 scholarly articles, as well as books “Latvia-Russia-X”(2007), “Rethinking Security”(2010)
and “Gender and Human Security: a View from the Baltic Sea Region”(2015). Ms Ozoliņa is the current Editor in Chief of the magazine Latvijas intereses
Eiropas savienībā, as well as the member of the Editorial Board of the magazines Defence Strategic Communications, Journal of Baltic Studies,
Lithuanian Strategic Review and the Journal of Baltic Security.
Željko Jovanović is director of the Roma Initiatives Office, which aims to strengthen the voices and leadership of Roma as well as to improve public
policies and services provided to Roma and other people. Before joining the Open Society Foundations in 2006, Jovanović worked for the OSCE on
assisting the Serbian government in implementing EU-funded municipal projects for Roma and on introducing Roma coordinators and teaching
assistants at the local level. He also managed an international project on the participation of Roma in local policy-making and elections. Previously, he
worked with the Catholic Relief Services on humanitarian aid for refugees and the poor, and on grassroots advocacy and project-management
training for Roma organizations in Serbia. Of Roma ethnic background, Mr Jovanović comes from a family that, through a belief in self-determination
and education, moved from extreme poverty to the middle class. He has an academic background in law and has completed the Harvard University
Executive Education program on Strategic Management for Leaders of Non-Governmental Organizations. In secondary school and during his
university studies, he was involved in protests against the Milošević regime. During this period, he also volunteered as a journalist for a Roma radio
magazine broadcast on B92, the only independent broadcaster in Serbia at the time, and was an activist for a Roma political party.
Chair :
Goran Buldioski is Program Director of the Open Society Think Tank Fund and co-director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. He focuses on
democratic transition in Eastern Europe, the development of policy research on social and political affairs, and the role of civil society. Before joining
the Open Society Foundations, he worked for the Council of Europe, the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation and the National Youth
Council of Macedonia. His articles and research papers addressing think tanks, policy-relevant research and democratic transition have appeared in
Politico, EurAktiv, Sharp! Magazine, LSE-UNDP Development and Transition Newsletter, the Turkish Policy Quarterly, and the Western Balkans
Security Observer. He is member of the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR).
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Keynote Address
H.E. Aleksandar Vučić was born on 5 March 1970. He graduated from the Zemun high school in 1988 and from the Faculty of Law, University of
Belgrade in 1994. He joined the Serbian Radical Party in 1993. He was elected an MP to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 1993. He
was elected Secretary General of the Serbian Radical Party in 1994. He stayed in that position until 2008. He was appointed Minister of Information in
the Government of National Unity in 1998. He was an MP in the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia for three terms of office: the Council of the Republics
as of February 1998, Council of the Republics as of May 2000, and in September 2000 he was elected an MP in federal elections. Together with Tomislav
Nikolić , he founded the Serbian Progressive Party, and at the Founding Convention in October 2008, he was elected the party's Vice President. After
the general parliamentary elections, held in 2012, he was appointed Minister of Defense and the First Deputy Prime Minister, in charge of the ght
against crime and corruption. At the Second Party Congress, held on 29 September 2012, he was unanimously elected President of the Serbian
Progressive Party. He served as Defense Minister from 28 July 2012 until a government reshuffle on 2 September 2013. Since September 2013, he has
maintained only the position of the First Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the ght against corruption and crime. After the Serbian Progressive Party
won in the elections held on 16 March 2014, Vučić became Prime Minister. He holds the Captain Miša Anastasijević award for Person of the Year 2012,
the Person of the Year 2013 award by Nezavisne Novine from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has also received the Man of the Year 2013 award, given by
the European magazine The Man, The European of the Year 2013 awarded by the First European House, the Vidovdan Award of 2013 from the City of
Kruševac and the award Regional Leader of 2014 from Večernji List, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is uent in English and Russian. He has a good
command of French and is also learning German.
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Closing Address
Sonja Licht is the President of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence. She was part of the Yugoslav dissident movement from the late sixties, and
from the mid-eighties founded numerous local and international non-governmental organizations. Between 1991 and 1995 Sonja Licht was the cochair of the international Helsinki Citizens' Assembly. From 1991 to 2003 she was rst Executive Director and then President of the Fund for an Open
Society (Soros Foundation) in Yugoslavia (later Serbia), a major donor of a vigorous civil society. Sonja was the head of the Task Force of the Bratislava
Process (established in July 1999 under the auspices of the East-West Institute in order to support the democratic opposition of Serbia). In 2010 she
participated in the Council of Europe's Group of Eminent Persons that prepared the report: Living Together: Combining Freedom and Diversity in Europe
of 21st Century. She has been a member of boards of outstanding international organizations and is the laureate of numerous awards including the
Star of Italian Solidarity and the French Legion of Honor. She is a Richard von Weizsacker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy for 2015.
Maja Bobić is an anthropologist with an MA in Southeast European Studies conferred at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
She is employed in the EMinS since 2003, rstly as a Local Council Coordinator, later as a Project Coordinator/Researcher. In 2007 she was appointed
Secretary General in charge of the overall planning, fundraising and management of EMinS, its representation to partners, associates and
bene ciaries. She was a Freedom House fellow at the 'Advocacy and Lobbying' school seminar in the USA, an alumna of the School of political studies
of the BFPE and CoE, an alumnus of IVLP, etc. Ms. Bobic is regional co-chair of the German Marshal Fund's MMF program and an International
European Movement Board member since 2014. Besides expertise in project development and management, her areas of interest encompass civil
society development, civil dialogue, European integration and enlargement, and regional cooperation. She is uent in English, and has a working
knowledge of French and Greek.
Sonja Stojanović Gajić is Director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), an independent security think tank in the Western Balkans
ranked among top 20 think-tanks in CEE and among top 70 Security and International Affairs Think Tanks. She is the author of the methodology for
measuring security sector reform (SSR) in transitional societies from the perspective of civil society tested in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Prior to taking up her current appointment, she worked with the Strategic Development Unit of
the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro's Law Enforcement Department as a coordinator of the strategic management program for the Serbian
and Montenegrin police services. In the period of 2006-2011, Ms. Stojanović worked part-time as a teaching assistant for security studies at the
Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade. Among her recent publications are: Police Reform in Montenegro 2006-2011 (with Novak
Gajić) and Policing in Serbia: Negotiating the Transition between Rhetoric and Reform (with Mark Downes) that appeared in the book Policing
Developing Democracies (Routledge 2008). She holds an MA in Politics, Security and Integration with distinction from the School of Slavonic and
Eastern European Studies, University College London. She is a member of the Gender Equality Council of the Ombudsperson of Serbia, a Serbian
representative in the OSCE Network of Think Tanks, and also a member of the Women in International Security (WIIS), the Forum for International
Relations and is an alumna of Chevening, the US State Department's National Security Institute and the Belgrade Open School.
LOGISTICAL INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
ACCOMMODATION
Participants of the Belgrade Security Forum 2015 will be accommodated at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Belgrade, located in New Belgrade (5 Milentija
Popovića Street), close to Ušće Shopping Mall and the beautiful Ušće Park – the point where the Sava River con uence swith the Danube, with the
riverbank overlooking the city center, Kalemegdan fortress, and an intact and uninhabited War Island.
The hotel is only ve minutes by car from the Belgrade city center and the architecturally distinct city of Zemun, as well as only a short 15 minute ride
from the Belgrade Airport.
For more information about the hotel, please visit: http://www.belgrade.regency.hyatt.com.
REGISTRATION DESK
The Belgrade Security Forum Registration Desk will be situated in the lobby of the conference venue, the Hyatt Regency Hotel Belgrade, on the left.
Our colleagues will be happy to register you and provide you with all the information together with the personalized conference package.
VENUES
Special Side Event: Awarding of the Honorary Citizen of Belgrade Title to Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg
The Special Side Event will take place at the Belgrade City Hall (2 Dragoslava Jovanovića Street). Please note that entry to the Special Side Event is
contingent upon a separate invitation to be included in the personalized conference package.
The organisers will also arrange car transfer between the hotel and the special side event venue on the evening of October 1, 2015.
Conference Venue
Academic Sessions, Plenary Panels and Breakout Sessions will be held at the premises of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Map of the venue can be found on
the back of the agenda card included in your conference package.
Official Dinner
The official dinner will be organized on October 1, at the Restaurant Kalemegdanska Terasa, Mali Kalemegdan bb
Please note that entry to the Official Dinner is contingent upon a separate invitation to be included in the personalized conference package.
TRANSFERS
Detailed information on the scheduled car service during the Belgrade Security Forum will be included in your welcome package. Our colleagues will
verify the travel times with you and will also be available for all additional information at conference working hours.
Arrival
On the day of your arrival, the official car service of the Forum will provide transfer from the Belgrade airport to the hotel. Our colleagues, holding a
card with a logo/title of the Belgrade Security Forum will welcome you at the airport arrivals terminal and will accompany you to the car.
Departure
The official car service also includes transport from your hotel to the Belgrade airport on the day of your departure. Your Departure transfer schedule
will be included in your package. Depending on the time of your outbound ight, our colleagues will wait for you at the hotel lobby to accompany you
to the car that will transport you to the airport.
Official Dinner (upon separate invitation): The organisers will also arrange car transportation between the hotel and the dinner venue on the evening
of October 1, 2015.
SIGHTSEEING
Belgrade, which is the largest city in Serbia and its capital, offers a wide variety of attractions and contrasts. One of the main attractions is Kalemegdan
Fortress, overlooking the con uence of the Danube and Sava Rivers, which was rebuilt many times throughout its turbulent history. Other major
historical monuments in the city centre are the pedestrian street Kneza Mihaila, the Bohemian quarter of Skadarlija, the House of the Parliament, the
Ballet and Opera House, St. Michael's Cathedral, Konak of Princess Ljubica and the and St. Sava Temple, the largest Orthodox church in Europe. For
additional information, please check the official website of the Tourism organization of Belgrade: http://www.tob.rs.
FEATURES
Catering: Coffee breaks and refreshments will be offered during the conference days, as well as during registration.
WiFi: Wireless Internet will be available at the Hyatt Regency Hotel where the academic, plenary and evening sessions will be held. Participants are
asked to bring their own mobile devices if they need to connect to the Internet during the conference. Login details will be provided at the Registration
Desk.
Meals: During the conference, refreshments and lunch will be provided for all participants. Please note: breakfast will be served only to participants
accommodated in the hotel.
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