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The Balkan and Global Security: What do we have in common, what sets us apart?
Venue: Belgrade (Serbia)
Period: Sep. 14 - 16, 2011
Program
Organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Belgrade fund for Political Excellence and the European Movement in Serbia) are pleased to invite young scholars (PhD students and recent PhDs) to submit proposal papers to be delivered at the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF), regional security conference which will gather several hundred top level policy and decision makers, NGO leaders, experts, academics and journalists to be held on September 13-16 2011 in Belgrade. Accepted papers will be presented during the academic sessions (September 13-14) of the Belgrade Security Forum. The aim of the academic sessions is to foster academic discussion about security in South East Europe, connect young scholars interested in the subject and feed scholarly insights into the policy sessions of the Belgrade Security Forum (September 14-16).
The organizers will welcome papers which are offering challenging, innovative and policy oriented ideas on how to better understand and improve Balkan and European security. We are particularly looking for papers dealing with lessons learned in security community building and security sector reform in the Western Balkans and their relevance for other regions on the road to democracy such as the Middle East and the Caucasus.
The participants
Confirmed speakers at the policy sessions of the Belgrade Security Forum:
- Hakan Altinay, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institutions
- Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, Programme Director, IISS
- Stefanie Babst, NATO Acting Assistant Secretary General
- Egemen Bagis, Minister of State, Chief Negotiator to the EU, Turkey
- Anton Bebler, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana
- Christopher Coker, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Vlatko Cvrtila, Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb
- Anja H. Ebnother, Assistant Director, DCAF
- Daniel Fata, Transatlantic Fellow, GMF
- Karsten Friis, Senior Advisor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- Charles Grant, Director, Center for European Reform
- Ulrike Guerot, Senior Policy Fellow, Head of ECFR Office in Berlin
- Istvan Gyarmati, President and CEO, ICDT
- Francois Heisbourg, Chairman, IISS
- Gabor Iklody, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
- George Ishak, Activist, Founder of Kefaya
- Minna Jarvenpaa, Independent Analyst
- Ljubica Jelušić, Minister of Defence, Republic of Slovenia
- Jacques de Jong, Senior Fellow, Clingendael International Energy Programme, CIEP
- Rastislav Kačer, President, Slovak Atlantic Commission
- Gordana Kozhuharova, Regional Director for SEE, REC
- Erika Kvapilova, Regional Programme Director, UNWOMEN
- Remzi Lani, Director, Albanian Media Institute
- Nikolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Bulgaria
- Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief, International Relations
- Anita Orban, Ambassador for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Hungary
- Sašo Ordanoski, Director of Media and Public Affairs, VeVe Group
- Srđa Popović, OTPOR CANVAS
- Žarko Puhovski, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
- Dušan Reljić, Senior Researcher, European Institute for Media
- Sadan Inan Ruma, Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University
- Anwar Essmat El Saddat, Chairman, El Saddat Association
- Stefano Sannino, Director General, Directorate General for External Relations, European Commission
- Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
- Jiri Sedivy, First Deputy Minister of Defence, Czech Republic
- James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Chatham House
- Mohhamad K Shiyyab, Adviser to His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan Bin Talal
- Milan Simurdić, Ambassador of Serbia to Norway
- Arian Starova, Vice Minister, Ministry of Defence, Republic of Albania
- Dragan Štavljanin, Broadcaster, Radio Free Europe
- Darko Tanasković, Professor, University of Belgrade
- Ivan Vejvoda, Vice President, GMF
- Kurt Volker, Managing Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, John Hopkins University
How to participate to the Conference
See the call for papers on Pecob for more details!
Organizer and Partners
- Belgrade Security Forum
- Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
- European Movement in Serbia
- Belgrade Center for Security Policy
Information & contacts
Filip Ejdus
Belgrade Security Forum
e-mail: filip.ejdus@fpn.bg.ac.rs
website: http://www.belgradeforum.org/
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