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| Saturday,
January 17, 2004 |
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| 11:00
- 12:00 |
Registration | |
| 12:00
- 13:00 |
Official Opening
Lunch Session Summit Organizers and Heads of Supporting Organizations Akram Baker, Chairman Brandicate Consultants Khaled Saffuri, Director, Islamic Free Market Institute Foundation, USA |
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| 13:00
- 14:00 |
UNDP - UN Plenary
Session w/ Q & A |
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| 14:00
- 15:00 |
Plenary Address w/
Q & A Tariq Ramadan, Professor, University of Geneva “To be an Arab in Europe: Perspectives for an Arab Community in an increasingly pluralist European Society – Learning from the Arab American Community.” |
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| 15:00
- 15:15 |
Coffee Break | |
| 15:15
- 17:15 |
Moderated Issue Groups
Breakout Session I. Good Governance and Social and Civic Development To examine core elements of good governance, including representative and participatory political institutions, transparency and rule of law Moderator: Moderator: Mohamad Shadid -- PMO Director & Deputy Director General, Palestinian Welfare Association Panelists: James Dau, Director of Constituent Communications, Office of Governor, State of New Jersey Tarek Al-Wazir, Head of the Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN Parliamentary Group in the Hesse State Parliament Amr Hamzawy, Professor, University of Cairo Arwa Hassan, Senior Program Officer, Transparency International, Germany Joseph Zogby, Attorney Eugene Cotran, Circuit Judge, UK; Chair of Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS |
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| II. Healthy Populations To examine public health and health care delivery issues facing the Arab World Moderator: Adnan Hammad, Director of the Community Health & Research Center; ACCESS Panelists: May Darwish-Yassine, Senior Research Scientist, Michigan Public Health Institute Mustafa Khogali, Chairman, Department of Family Medicine, American University of Beirut Munzer Yaziji, Munzer Yaziji & Associates Rafiq Husseini, Deputy Director General, Palestinian Welfare Association Reinhard Busse, Professor and Head of Dpt. for Health Care Management, Technische Universität Berlin |
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III. Growing the Economy |
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| IV. Youth, Education, and Technology |
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| V. Societal Structures |
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| 17:30
- 19:00 |
Reception hosted by US Ambassador to Germany Daniel R. Coats | |
| 19:30
- 22:00 |
Policy Makers’ Dinner Wolfgang Vorwerk, Director for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, the Maghreb und the Sudan, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs William J. Burns, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, USA |
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| Sunday,
January 18, 2004 |
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| 09:00
- 09:30 |
The Middle East Partnership
Initiative Alina Romanowski, NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary for MEPI, Department of State |
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| 09:30
- 10:30 |
Plenary
Address w/ Q & A Samer Shehata, Professor, Georgetown University: "Prospects for Political Reform in the Arab World?: what Arabs in the West can do to promote democracy in the Arab world" |
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| 10:30
- 10:45 |
Coffee Break | |
| 10:45
- 11:15 |
NGO Plenary Address Mohammed Shadid, Palestinian Welfare "The Role of NGOs as Agents for Development and Democracy" |
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| 11:15 – 11:45 | Perspectives for
Civil Society Development the Eastern European Example Jana Hybaskova, Former Czech Ambassador to Kuwait |
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| 12:00
- 16:00 |
Working Lunch Buffet with Moderated Issue Groups Breakout Groups | |
| 16:00
- 16:15 |
Coffee Break | |
| 16:15
- 17:30 |
Feedback Plenary Address: Call to Action Issue-Group Results and Perspectives Presented by Issue Group Moderators |
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| 17:30
- 17:45 |
Conference Closing Remarks | |
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