A World Without Walls 2010
”An International Conference on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Globalization in an Interdependent World”
The speakers during the Conference will include leading figures and experts from international politics, academia, the diplomatic community, civil society and the private sector, from across the world. These speakers will include a number of individuals from the ICD Advisory Board (for further information about the Advisory Board please click here). Speakers for the Conference include:
Dr. Alfredo Palacio
ICD Advisory Board Member - Former President of Ecuador
Ali Ahmad Jalali
Former Interior Minister of Afghanistan
Ana Trišić-Babić
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prof. Anthony Giddens (Baron Giddens, of Southgate)
Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics; Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Former Director of the London School of Economics- Arno Truger
Director - Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
Amb. Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider
ICD Advisory Board Member – Former Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Dr. Erkki Tuomioja
ICD Advisory Board Member - Former Finnish Foreign Minister
Prof. Dr. Fawaz A. Gerges
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Prof. Dr. François Heisbourg
Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris)
George Galloway
Former UK MP; Vice President of the Stop The War Coalition
Dr. Gerhard Prätorius
ICD Advisory Board Member - Head of Coordination CSR and Sustainability, Volkswagen Group
Dr. Gerlinde Niehus
Head, Corporate Communications Section, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO
Dr. Hans Günter Brauch
Political Scientist, Historian; Chairman of AFES PRESS
Heinz J Kuzdas
Photographer and Author of "Berliner Mauer Kunst: Mit East Side Gallery" (Berlin's wall art = Arte en el muro de Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Inge Kaul
Former Director of UNDP's Office of Development Studies
Ioannis Kasoulides
MEP, Former Foreign Minister of Cyprus; 2008 Cypriot Presidential Candidate
Jack McConnell (Lord McConnell)
ICD Advisory Board Member - Former First Minister of Scotland
Sir James Richard Marie Mancham
ICD Advisory Board Member - Former President of the Republic of Seychelles
Dr. Jan Oberg
Director & Co-Founder of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
Janez Janša
Former Prime Minister of Slovenia
Joaquim Chissano
Former President of Mozambique; Former Chairperson of the African Union Former President of Mozambique
Dr. Johan Galtung
Norwegian Mathematician and Sociologist; A Principal Founder of the Discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies
Prof. Dr. Joris Voorhoeve
Former Defence Minister of Holland and Professor of International Security Studies at Nederlandse Defensie Academie
Dr. Leonie von Braun
German Judge (Berlin Criminal Court); Chair of Amnesty Germany's coordination group against Impunity
Dr. Luc Reychler
Professor of International Relations, University of Leuven; Director of the Center of Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CSIS)
Marcia Barrett
Lead Singer of Boney M
Marina Pendes
ICD dvisory Board Member - Deputy Minister of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mark C. Donfried
Director - the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
Merethe Stagetorn
ICD Advisory Board Member - Defense Lawyer for the Danish Supreme Court
Dr. Miomir Zuzul
ICD Advisory Board Member - Former Foreign Minister of Croatia, Former Croatian Ambassador to the United States
Nouzha Skalli
ICD Advisory Board Member - Moroccan Minister for Family, Social Development, and Solidarity
Prof. Dr. Oleg Kolobov
Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia
Ribal Al-Assad
Founder and Chairman of IMAN; Founder and Director of the Organization for Democracy and Freedom in Syria
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bernhardt
Former President of the European Court of Human Rights; Professor, Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
ICD Advisory Board Member - Former President of Latvia