CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY
11th
Annual Conference
U.S.-Relations with the Muslim World:
One Year After Cairo
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building Amphitheater
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004
Co-sponsored by:
The Muslim World
Initiative
United States
Institute of Peace
The Ali
Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies
George Mason
University
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
8:00 a.m. - 8:30
a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. - 9:00
a.m. Welcoming
Remarks
·
Dr. Peter Mandaville, Chair,
Program Committee
·
Dr. Radwan Masmoudi, CSID
President
9:00 a.m. - 10:30
a.m. Panel
1
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Dialogue with
Political Islamists
Moderator: Daniel Brumberg,
United States Institute of
Peace
·
Mustapha Khalfi,
Justice
& Development Party, Morocco
·
Abderrazak Makri,
Movement
for the Society of Peace, Algeria
·
Salah Ali Abdulrahman,
Islah
Movement, Bahrain
·
Ruhail Gharaibeh,
Islamic
Action Front, Jordan
10:30 a.m. - 11:00
a.m. Coffee
Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m. Parallel
Session #1
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Muslim Perceptions
& Public Opinion
Chair: Abiodun Williams
Vice President, Conflict
Prevention and Analysis, USIP
·
Views of the U.S. in Post-Jihadist Thought - Omar Ashour, University of Exeter
·
Muslim publics' views of the U.S. - Steven Kull, Worldpublicopinion.org
·
A Nigerian Perspective on the Cairo Speech - Chloe Berwind-Dart, Cherish
Foundation
·
New Approaches to Public Diplomacy in the
Muslim World
- Kristin Lord, Center for a New
American Security
11:00 a.m. - 12:30
p.m. Parallel
Session #2
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Islam, Human Rights,
and Development
Chair: Mona Yacoubian, USIP
·
The Obama Administration and Islamic Human
Rights
-
Satoshi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo
·
Arab Youth Development in U.S.-Muslim
Engagement - Oliver Wilcox
& Chris Carneal, Middle East Bureau, U.S. Agency for International Development
·
Political Islam and U.S. Foreign Policy in
the Obama Era - Halim Rane,
Griffith University
·
Constructing Political Islam as the New
Other - Corinna Mullin,
School of Oriental & African Studies
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12:30
p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Keynote
Luncheon
Prospects for Improved
Relations and Understanding Between the U.S. and the Muslim World
Tariq Ramadan
Oxford University
Reza Aslan
University of California,
Riverside
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2:00 p.m. - 3:30
p.m. Plenary
Session
Roundtable:
Perspectives on Muslim
Engagement featuring Farah Pandith
Chair: Peter
Mandaville
·
Farah Pandith - Special Representative to Muslim
Communities, Department of State
Respondents:
· Marc Lynch - George Washington University
· Emile Nakhleh - Independent scholar
· Brian Katulis - The Center for American Progress
·
Daniel Brumberg - United States Institute of Peace
3:30 p.m. - 4:00
p.m. Coffee
Break
4:00 p.m. - 5:30
p.m. Parallel
Session #3
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Voices from the
Middle East
Chair: Emad El-Din Shahin
University of Notre Dame
·
Civil Society Organizations as Actors of
Change in the MENA Region: Potentialities and Challenges
- Nabila Hamza, Foundation for the
Future, Amman, Jordan
·
The U.S. Policy toward Egypt since Obama's
Inauguration: Assessment of the Past Year and Recommendations for the Future - Sarah Khorshid,
Egyptian
journalist and blogger
·
The U.S. Image among Arab's New Generation:
Finding and Recommendations from Experimental Research - Moataz A. Fattah, Cairo University
& Central Michigan University
·
Back to the Spirit of the Cairo Speech:
From Marshall Plan to Obama Plan - Alaya Allani, University of Tunis
·
Democracy Development Between High
Aspiration and Low Implementation - Fethi Touzri, Independent candidate
for Tunisian parliament
4:00 p.m. - 5:30
p.m. Parallel
Session #4
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Democracy &
Democracy Promotion
Chair: Asma Afsaruddin
Indiana University
·
Evaluating Obama's Contributions to Iran's
Democratic Opposition - Laila Taraghi, University of Arkansas
·
The Role of the U.S. in Encouraging
Pro-Democracy Movements -
Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
·
Democracy Promotion: The Missing Dimension
of Counter-Extremism - Lars
Berger, University of Salford
·
Applying Sustainable Democracy Promotion
to the Muslim World - Eric Patterson, Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace & World Affairs
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5:30
p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Concluding
Keynote
Building Bridges of Understanding
Between America and the Muslim World
Senator John Kerry (invited)
Chairman, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, U.S. Senate
Anwar Ibrahim
Leader of the Opposition in
Malaysia
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