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, 2013Carthage Thalasso GammarthTunis, Tunisia EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 26
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION
(ENGLISH - ARABIC) WILL BE PROVIDED
FINAL PROGRAM
Friday March 29, 2013 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration, Tea, and Coffee
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Opening Statements
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Radwan Masmoudi,
CSID President ____________________________________________________________________
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Ali Laaryedh
Prime Minister of Tunisia (invited)
"How to Achieve A Successful Democratic Transition in Tunisia"
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9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Keynote SpeechRached Ghannouchi
President of the Nahdha Party
"How Islam and Democracy can be reconciled and can strengthen each other in Tunisia and in the Arab World"
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10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Coffee and Tea Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.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
. 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
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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Keynote Luncheon
Islam and Governance After the Arab Spring - Ethical References or Alternative Project?
Tariq Ramadan
Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University
A European Perspective on the Cradle of the Arab Spring
Jens Plötner
Ambassador of Germany
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2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 2
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Democratic Transitions and Security Sector reforms
Chair: ____________________________________________________________________
. Who Voted and Why? An Analysis of "New" and "Old" Voters in Tunisia and Egypt - - Dhafer Malouche - Tunisia - mdhafer.ticv@gmail.com
. Transitional Justice: The Experience of the Fairness and Reconciliation Committee in Morocco - Mohamed Bazi - Morocco - bazzy114@hotmail.fr
. A Quiet Counterrevolutionary: The Tunisian Political Police, Before and After the Ben 'Ali Regime - Philip S. Hoffman - USA - Philip.Hoffman@tufts.edu
. The Arab Awakening and the Security Sector - Omar Ashour - UK - O.Ashour@exeter.ac.uk
2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 3
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What can we Learn from the Turkish or the South Korean Model
Chair:
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Can Turkey's Justice and Development Party Be a Model for Arab Islamists? - 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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Presidential Regime and the Korean Model of Democratic Transition - Jeongmin Seo - South Korea - amirseo@hotmail.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:
Fathi Ayadi - Nahda Party
Nejib Chebbi - Republican Party
Tayyib Baccouche - Nidaa Tounes
Imed Daimi - Congress for the Republic
Mouldi Riahi - Attakattol Party
Kamel Morjane - Al-Moubadara Party
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:
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 5
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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 6
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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
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 7
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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
. 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
. Bahrain and the Crisis of the Democratic Transition - Baqer Darwish - Bahrain - baqer86@gmail.com
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12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Keynote Luncheon
Electoral Formula and the Tunisian Constituent Assembly
Keynote Speaker:
John Carey
Dartmouth College - USA
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2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 8
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Challenges and Difficulties for the Democratic Transition in Tunisia
Chair:
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. The Tunisian Governing Experiment and the Challenges of Democratic Transitions - Riadh Chaibi - Tunisia - chaibi.riadh@live.com
. Governing Uncertainty: The Provisional Administrations in Tunisia and Libya in 2011-2012 - 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
2:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 9
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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
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Coffee and Tea Break
4:00 a.m. - 5:30 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 II
Chair:
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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
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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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The Status of Popular Reform Movement in the Gulf Countries Following the Arab Spring - Mohamed Errashid - Kuwait - faresnabeel@yahoo.com
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Relations between Islamists and Secularists and How to build Common Ground between Them - Mahmoud Sherf Eddine - Yemen - mshadin@hotmail.com
4:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. PARALLEL SESSION - Panel 11
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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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5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
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
Othman Jerandi
Foreign Minister of Tunisia
(invited)
Mostafa Ben Jaafar
President, The National Constituent Assembly (NCA)
(invited)
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