Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy & Human Rights
"Towards a Global Human Rights Culture: The Need for a Collective Alliance in the Protection & Promotion of Human Rights"
(Berlin; May 27th - June 1st, 2013)
Symposium Speakers
We are privileged to include as speakers many distinguished experts from the fields of international politics, international law, diplomacy, human rights and civil society; The ICD is grateful for their contributions to this important event.The following are among the speakers for the Symposium:
- Minister Adolphe Rukenkanya
Minster of Youth, Sports and Culture of Burundi - Arthur Gwagwa
Coordinator, International Liaison Office, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum - Birgitta Wistrand
Researcher at Center for Gender Research, Uppsala University; Sweden - Blanche Foster
Acting Executive Director, Darfur Rehabilitation Project, Inc. - Minister Dr. Cirino Hiteng Ofuho
Minister of Culture, Youth & Sports of South Sudan - Dr. Deborah S Davenport
Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment - Dietmar Köring
Architecht & Researcher, Institute for Urban Design and Sustainable urban Planning, Technische Universität Berlin - Dolkun Isa
Chairman of the Executive Committee, World Uyghur Congress - Edson Chiota
CEO, Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender - President Dr. Emil Constantinescu
Former President of Romania; President of the Academy of Cultural Diplomacy Berlin - Emmanuel Nahshon
Deputy Ambassador of Israel to Germany - Francisco Javier Urizar Pérez
Coordinator of the Defense of Human Dignity, Human Rights Office of the Archbishop of Guatemala - Dr. Gregory Stanton
President, Genocide Watch - Gyorgy Tatar
Chair of the Board of Trustees, Foundation for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities - Dr. Inge Gotzmann
National Manager, Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland, Bundesverband für Kultur, Natur und Heimat e. V. - Dr. James Smith
Special Representative, Aegis Trust - Jana Smiggels Kavková
Chair, Czech Women´s Lobby - Javier El-Hage
International Legal Director, The Human Rights Foundation - Hon. Minister Jean Jacques Nyenimigabo
Minster of Youth, Sports and Culture of Burundi - John Feffer
Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies - President Katalin Bogyay
President of the General Conference of UNESCO, ICD Advisory Board Member - Kelsang Gyalsen
Special Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Europe - The Hon. Kristina Ojuland
Member of European Parliament; Former Foreign Minister of Estonia, , ICD Advisory Board Member - Leena Azzam
Research Assistant, Law Department, the American University in Cairo (AUC) - Ljuljjeta Goranci Brkic
General Manager, Nansen Dialogue Center Sarajevo - Dr. Lulzim Farizi
State labor Inspectorate, Government of Macedonia - Louise Lindfors
Chariwoman, The Fredrika Bremer Society - Marie Brown
Area Management Coordinator, Foyle Women's Aid - Prof. Dr. Marilou McPhedran
Professor, Institute for International Women's Rights, University of Winnipeg - Dr. Mark Barwick,
Manager, Human Rights Without Frontiers - Mark Donfried
Director & Founder, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) - Prof. Martin Jänicke
Founding Director of the Environmental Policy Research Center, Freie Universität; Germany - Mary Devery
Historian and Human Rights campaigner, Board Member TERRE DES FEMMES e.V. - Maryam Faghihimani
Sustainability Adviser, University of Oslo, Core Group member of UNICA Green Academic Footprint (UGAF) and Nordic Sustainable Campus Network (NSCN) - Meskerem Geset Techane
Deputy Executive Director of Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) - Metin Djelil
Manager at the Islamic Center-Mosque "Ebu Hanifa", Germany - Mona el Roby,
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Future University, Egypt - Dr. Mukesh Kapila
Special Representative, Aegis Trust - Mushfiqul Fazal
Host & Moderator of TV Show "Hello Excellency" on NTV - Neama Ebaid
MA Student of Public Policy and Administration at the American University in Cairo (AUC) - The Hon. Ögmundur Jónasson
Former Minister of the Interior of Iceland, ICD Advisory Board Member - Paloma Moré
Manager, President of the Dulcamara Womens Assotiation - Ralf Fücks
President, Heinrich Boell Foundation - Dr. Robert Schuette
Chairman, Genocide Alert - Sabine Leskopf
Representative, Women Of Multicultural Ethnicity Network - Prof. Dr. Shaireen Rasheed
Professor Philosophy, LIU Post (Long Island University), NY, USA - Sheikh Maytham Al Salman
Chairman of the Bahrain Interfaith Center - Prof. Dr. Stefan Heiland
Professor, Institute for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Technical University of Berlin - Twana Hassan
PhD researcher (Law), The University of Queensland, Australia - Prof. Dr. Yusuf Ziya Irbec
Member of the Turkish Parliament - Zvonimir Paul Separovic
Former Minister of Justice of Croatia