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Democracy and the Rule of Law

 

Breakfast: Transforming Evil into Heroism

Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Jakub Klepal, Philip Zimbardo
 

Perspectives of Democracy and the Rule of Law in the 21st Century

Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Jacques Rupnik, Adam Michnik, John Agyekum Kufuor, Michael Žantovský, Marites Vitug, Vartan Gregorian
 

Connecting Generations

Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
In cooperation with the Czech Safer Internet National Centre
Participants: Zuzana Procházková, Maria Ivanova, Marek Ehrenberger, Kamila Brožová, Tomáš Botlík, Aleš Sedláček, Zdeněk Metoděj Záliš, Linda Štucbartová, Aneta Skrebska
 

Democracy and the Rule of Law: Legality vs. Legitimacy?

Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Mikheil Saakashvili, Pavel Rychetský, Jan Urban, Olusegun Obasanjo, José María Argueta
 

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Women Leaders in Tomorrow´s World

Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
In cooperation with CERGE-EI and International Herald Tribune
Participants: Jan Bubeník, Susan Walton, Stephanie Shirley, Mariko Gakiya, Magdaléna Vášáryová


Gala Dinner

Monday, October 10, 2011, Prague Congress Center, ZOOM Restaurant
Participants: Tomáš Vrba, Vartan Gregorian
 

Breakfast: Peace Versus Justice

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Oldřich Černý, Gareth Evans
 

Law and Individual                                  

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: André Glucksmann, Surendra Munshi, Aryeh Neier, Tatsiana Reviaka, Vadim Klyuvgant, Bobo Lo
 

The Fate of Female Political Prisoners and the Rule of Law

Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Academy of Sciences
In cooperation with Politicalprisoners.eu
Participants: Tomáš Bouška, Hana Truncová, Anita Lackenberger

 

A Globalizing World: State Sovereignty and Its Limits

 

A New Aid System For The Era of Globalization

Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
In cooperation with The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Participants: Jiro Hanyu, Motoshige Itoh, Wolfgang Michalski, Thomas Pogge, Tetsushi Sonobe


Meeting Dissidents as a Democracy Support Tool: From van der Stoel and Patočka to Cuba, Belarus and the Dalai Lama

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Hotel InterContinental
Participants: Marek Svoboda, Frans Timmermans, Ales Michalevic, Jiřina Šiklová, Ivan Chvatík, Vladimír Galuška
 

Development Aid and Good Governance

Summary, Message from Oswaldo José Payá Sardiňas
Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Mou-Shih Ding, Jan Urban, Frans Timmermans, Gérard Roland, Marcus Cornaro
 

Responsibility to Protect II: Challenges and Prospects

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Howard Hensel, Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel, George Andreopoulos, Jared Genser, Pierre Lévy

 

Law and Religion

 

Religious Law and Human Rights

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Michael Melchior, Václav Malý, Geshe Tenzin Dhargye, Shahira Amin
 

Religion, Ethics and Law

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Jiří Pehe, Vartan Gregorian, Günter Virt, Mark L. Movsesian, Tomáš Halík, William Cook

 

A Corrupt Society?

 

Organized Crime, Corruption and Politics

Summary
Sunday, October 9, 2011, New Stage, National Theatre
In cooperation with Open Society Fund Prague
Participants: Monika Ladmanová, Peter Eigen, Yakov Gilinsky, Norman L. Eisen, José María Argueta, Karel Randák
 

Our Corruption

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Academy of Sciences
In cooperation with People in Need´s One World it Schools educational program
Participants: Jan Urban, Ondřej Liška, Jaroslav Poláček, Marie Benešová, Karolína Peake, Mikuláš Ferjenčík
 

Corruption and Society

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
In cooperation with CERGE-EI and Open Society Fund Prague
Participants: Peter Eigen, Randall K. Filer, GrigoryYavlinsky, Laurent Weill, Christopher Walker, Avi Dichter
 

Modern Organized Crime: An Anonymous Stakeholder in the Public Sphere

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Goethe-Institut
In cooperation with Open Society Fund Prague
Participants: Uzi Arad, Atifete Jahjaga, Yakov Gilinsky, José María Argueta, Yakov Kostyukovsky
 

Corruption: How Can We Effectively Deal With It?

Summary
Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Czech Radio Pilsen
In cooperation with Pilsen 2015 and Open Society Fund Prague
Participants: Erik Tabery, Vladimíra Dvořáková, Jiří Knitl, Adriana Krnáčová, Martin Kameník

 

Law and Environment

 

Sustain the Future: International Response to Climate Change

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
In cooperation with the Embassy of Brazil, the Embassy of Denmark, the Embassy of Mexico, the Embassy of South Africa and the UN Information Center Prague
Participants: Jan Dusík, Martin Bursík, Bedřich Moldan, José Luis Bernal, Aspasia Camargo, Karsten Duer, Drahomíra Mandíková
 

Law and Environment

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
Participants: Hassane Cisse, Maria Ivanova, Bedřich Moldan, James Mancham, Jan Dusík, Mikuláš Huba
 

Greening the Economy in a Time of Austerity

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
In cooperation with Heinrich Böll Foundation and Green Academy
Participants: Cem Özdemir, Jan Macháček, Randall K. Filer, Ondřej Liška


We Are the Landscape

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Academy of Sciences
In cooperation with CENELC
Participants: Mikuláš Huba, Martin Říha, Jana Dlouhá, Martin Stránský, Josef Fanta

 

Water: Potential to Unite, Rather than Divide?

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofin Palace
In cooperation with The Coca-Cola Company
Participants: Irena Kalhousová, Uri Shamir, Ivo Šilhavý, Omar Rafai, Ladislav Bartoš


Business, Economy and the Rule of Law

 

The Limits of Regulation

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, CERGE-EI
In cooperation with CERGE-EI
Participants: Robert Hahn, Hana Lešenarová, Hassane Cisse, Zdeněk Tůma
 

Strategic Approaches to Private Philanthropy

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
In cooperation with the British Chamber of Commerce Czech Republic and the British Embassy Prague
Participants: Jiří Bárta, Stephanie Shirley, Jerry Hirsch, Karel Janeček
 

Legal Institutions and Transition Success

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
In cooperation with CERGE-EI
Participants: Kenneth W. Dam, Hana Lešenarová, Boris Nemtsov, Gérard Roland

 

Regional Focus


Internet, Social Networks and the Arab Spring

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Goethe-Institut
Participants: Steven Gan, Mohammad Gawdat, Shahira Amin, Sultan Barakat
 

Anna’s Days: Doing Business in Russia

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Faculty of Law, Charles University
In cooperation with People in Need
Participants: Rostislav Valvoda, William Browder, Vadim Klyuvgant
 

The Rule of Law in Asia

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Yohei Sasakawa, Kiichi Fujiwara, Surendra Munshi, Marites Vitug, Steven Gan
 

The Rule of Law in Russia

Summary
Monday, October 10, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Grigory Yavlinsky, Gregory Feifer, William Browder, Vadim Klyuvgant, Bobo Lo
 

Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Challenge for Europe

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Municipal Library 
In cooperation with CERGE-EI
Participants: Karel Kovanda, Jan Macháček, Alan Brown, Vladimír Dlouhý, Jacques Rupnik, Zdeněk Kudrna
 

Ukraine: A Fast Track Away from Democracy?

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Goethe-Institut
Participants: Natalia Churikova, Tomáš Vrba, Bohdan Danylyshyn, Christopher Walker, Mustafa Dzhemiliev
 

Europe’s Future: Constitutional or Populist Democracy?

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Goethe-Institut
Participants: Karel Kovanda, Adam Michnik, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Shlomo Avineri, Jacques Rupnik, Jiří Pehe
 

Russia: Can It Adapt to the Rapidly Changing World?

Summary
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Žofín Palace
Participants: Boris Nemtsov, Josef Pazderka, Bobo Lo, Gregory Feifer, Luboš Dobrovský
 

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