CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY - Tunis, Tunisia
Second International Conference on Islam & Democracy
Democratic Transitions in the Arab World:
Tunisia as a Model?
Friday and Saturday, March 29-30, 2013Tunis, Tunisia EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 20
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION
(ENGLISH - ARABIC) WILL BE PROVIDED
TENTATIVE PROGRAM
Friday March 29, 2013 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Opening Statements
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Dr. Radwan Masmoudi,
CSID President 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Panel 1
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Writing A New Constitution and Building National Consensus
Chair: . Overcoming Ideological and Social Cleavages in Times of Upheaval: Learning from Past Experiences - Marina Ottaway - USA - Marina.Ottaway@wilsoncenter.org
. Constitution, Muslim Majority, and Plural Societies: How the Middle East can learn from Indonesia's Democratization - Zacky Khairul Umam - Indonesia - zackykhumam@gmail.com
. Blasphemy, Freedom of Speech and Democratic Transition - Joelle Fiss - USA - FissJ@humanrightsfirst.org
. Lessons Learned from the Constitution-Making Process in Tunisia - Duncan Pickard - USA - dpickard@law.harvard.edu
. The Arab springs and the Constitutional law: comparing Constituent powers in Tunisia and Egypt - Pietro Longo - Italy - p.longo@cisip.it
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Tea Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Panel 2
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What can we Learn from the "Turkish Model"?
Chair:
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Relations between Secularists and Islamists: The Turkish Experience - Ahmet T. Kuru - Turkey - akuru@mail.sdsu.edu
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The Tunisian Democratic Experiment from Turkish Eyes - Mohamed Zahed Gul - Turkey - mohdzahidgol@hotmail.com
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Democratic Transition in Turkey, an example for Tunisia? - Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere - Turkey - ee.guzeldere@gmail.com
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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Luncheon Electoral Formula and the Tunisian Constituent Assembly
Keynote Speakers:
John Carey
Dartmouth College - USA
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2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 3
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Democratic Transitions and Public Participation
Chair:
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The Democratic Transition in Tunisia and the role of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) - Rawan Melhiss - Qatar - rawan.aje@gmail.com
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Who Voted and Why? An Analysis of "New" and "Old" Voters in Tunisia and Egypt - Dhafer Malouche - Tunisia - mdhafer.ticv@gmail.com
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Transitional Justice: The Experience of the Fairness and Reconciliation Committee in Morocco - Mohamed Bazi - Morocco - bazzy114@hotmail.fr
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Public Participation in Transition: A Key to Building National Consensus and Democratic Culture - Lauren R. Barr - USA - lauren.barr@american.edu
2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 4
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Security Sector reforms - How to Maintain Security during a Difficult Transition Period
Chair:
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A Quiet Counterrevolutionary: The Tunisian Political Police, Before and After the Ben 'Ali Regime - Philip S. Hoffman - USA - Philip.Hoffman@tufts.edu
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The Arab Awakening and the Security Sector - Omar Ashour - UK - O.Ashour@exeter.ac.uk
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Security Sector Reforms... between Reality and Ambitions - Kamel Abdallah Harooni - Iraq - kamal_haroni@yahoo.com
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea Break
4:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Panel 5
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VISIONS FOR A NEW TUNISIA:
Challenges and Proposals for Building a New Democratic Order
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Rached Ghannouchi - Nahda Party
Nejib Chebbi - Republican Party
Tayyib Baccouche - Nidaa Tounes
Mohamed Abbou - CPR
Mouldi Riahi - Attakattol
Abderraouf Ayadi - Wafa Party
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7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Hesham Reda Memorial Lecture & Annual Banquet Dinner
A New Pattern for Democracies (and Possibly Tunisia):
"Parliamentarized Semi-Presidentialism"
Invited Keynote Speakers:
Congressman Keith Ellison Rached Ghannouchi Nahda Party Alfred Stepan Columbia University, USA ____________________________________________________________________
Saturday, March 30, 2013
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Panel 6
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Role of Religion in Politics and in Public Life (session I)
Chair:
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. Why Islam (properly understood) is the Solution: Reflections on the Role of Religion in Tunisia's Democratic Transition - Nader Hashemi - US - nhashemi@du.edu
. Can the Muslim Political Movements of Tunisia Accept Popular Sovereignty? - Juan Cole - US - jricole@gmail.com
. Islamism, Civil State, and Relations between Religion and Politics: Reading the View of Islamic Movements - Rihab Abderrahman Sherif - Sudan - bint_shareif@hotmail.com
. Democratic Transition in Tunisia and the Experience of the Nahda Party - Is Compromise Possible without Ideological Transformations - David H. Warren - UK - david.warren@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Tea Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 7
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Role of Religion in Politics and in Public Life (session II)
Chair:
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Universal Dimensions of the Qur'an and Historic Specificity of Islam's Theological Sciences - Muhammad Yunus & Ashfaque Syed - Bengladesh - ashfaque@ask-ilm.com
. Islamist Movements from a Social Movement Theory Perspective: The Tunisian An-Nahdha within Changing Opportunity Structures - Karima El Ouazghari - Germany - elouazghari@hsfk.de
. Identity and Modernity are Complementary and Democracy is the Protector of Both - Belgacem Hassen - Tunisia - belgacem.hassen@gmail.com
. Rediscovering Religion and Secularism: and What That Means for Us Today in the Arab World and Elsewhere - Magid Shihade - Palestine - mshihade@gmail.com
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 8
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The Experiences of Democratic Transitions in Other Arab Countries
Chair:
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The Experience of Algeria's Islamist Parties: A reading in the Phenomenon of Splitting - Omar Arbaoui - Algeria - tafna2009@yahoo.fr
. Dialogue and Rapprochement between Islamists and Secularists: Yemen as an Example - Moujeeb Abdallah Hmidi - Yemen - alhomedi@gmail.com
. Yemeni Women: A Revolutionary Voice in the Public Sphere - Maria Holt - UK - holtm@westminster.ac.uk
. The Arab Spring & the Democratic Transition in Algeria - A Critical Reading of Political Reform Laws - Boutaieb Ben Naceur and Bouhenia Kawi - Algeria - bennaceur2002@gmail.com
. The Nationalist Islamic Congress and the Experience of the Joint Front in Yemen - Abdullah Ali Sabry - Yemen - abdullah.sabry@gmail.com
. The Political Structure of the Democratic Transition in Iraq after 9/4/2003 - Aras Moheiddine - Iraq - nivar_organization@yahoo.com
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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Keynote Luncheon
Constitutional Frameworks and Democratic Consolidation:
Parliamentarianism vs. Presidentialism
Keynote Speaker:
Cindy Skach
Professor of Comparative Government and Law
University of Oxford - UK
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2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 9
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Challenges and Difficulties for the Democratic Transition in Tunisia
Chair:
· The Tunisian Islamic Spring: Yesterday's Oppression, Today's Revolution - Luisa Gandolfo - UK - k.luisa.gandolfo@abdn.ac.uk
. Libya's and Tunisia's provisional governments after the Revolutions - Sabina Henneberg - USA - Sabina.henneberg@gmail.com
. Tunisian Intellectuals and the Struggle for Democracy in the Current Uprisings - Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab - Lebanon - eskassab@gmail.com
. «You can revolt but you can't rule» : Views about democracy and Political Participation from Tunisian Young Activists after the Revolution - Raoudha Ben Othman - Tunisia - r.benothmen@gmail.com
. The Tunisian Governing Experiment and the Challenges of Democratic Transitions - Riadh Chaibi - Tunisia - chaibi.riadh@live.com
2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 10
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Relations between Islamists and Secularists, and How to Build a Common Ground Between Them - Session I
Chair:
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Relation between Islamists and Secularist in Tunisia - Turkey's Influence as a Model? - Odile Moreau - France - o.moreau-richard@laposte.net
. Democracy is The Only Way Ahead - Building a Common Ground Between Islamists and Secularists - Valeria Resta - Italy - rawan.aje@gmail.com
. The role of civil society in building a common ground between Islamists and Secularists - Alexander Martin - UK - a.p.martin@durham.ac.uk
. Relations between Islamists and Secularists and How to build Common Ground between Them - Mahmoud Sherf Eddine - Yemen - mshadin@hotmail.com
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea Break
4:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 11
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Relations between Islamists and Secularists, and How to Build a Common Ground Between Them - Session II
Chair:
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From Opposed Oppositions to Equal Political Actors: Tunisia's Left Wing and Islamists in a Historical Perspective - Rikke Hostrup Haugbølle - Denmark - rikhostrup@hum.ku.dk
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Beyond a Secular-Islamist Construct: Charting out an ideological road-map for Tunisia - Rashid Shaz - India - futureislam@gmail.com
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Relations between Islamists and Secularists - The Experience of the Nationalist Islamist Congress as a Model - Kassem Kassir - Lebanon - kassem_1960@hotmail.com
4:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 12
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The Role of the International Community in Strengthening Democracy in the Arab World
Chair:
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Social Media and the Arab Spring- The Vehicle that made the Revolution Possible - Abdelhamid Abdeljaber - USA - hamidabd@rci.rutgers.edu
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The German-Tunisian Transformation Partnership - A model for supporting democracy in the Arab world? - Edmund Ratka - Germany - edmund.ratka@gsi.uni-muenchen.de
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External Factors and Democratic Transitions - America's Role in Supporting the Democratic Transition in Egypt - Amr Abdelaati - Egypt - amrabdel_atty@yahoo.com
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Is it Gender, Religion or Both? A Survey Experiment on Voter Preferences in Transitional Tunisia - Lindsay Benstead - USA - lindsay.benstead@pdx.edu
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5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Invited Keynote Speaker:
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy
Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)
Stanford University
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