les acteurs du dialogue

Dialogue
between peoples and cultures:
actors in the dialogue
Dialogue
des peuples et des cultures:
les acteurs du dialogue
Brussels, 24 and 25 May 2004
Bruxelles, 24 et 25 mai 2004
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Dialogue
between peoples and cultures:
actors in the dialogue
Dialogue
des peuples et des cultures:
les acteurs du dialogue
Brussels, 24 and 25 May 2004
Bruxelles, 24 et 25 mai 2004
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8 PROGRAMME
25 OPENING SESSION
26 Introductory address:
Ms Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission
30 Opening speech: Ms Mervat Tallawy, ESCWA Executive Secretary at the level of
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
35 WORKSHOP 1:
THE NETWORKS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
(EURO-MEDITERRANEAN FOUNDATION FOR CULTURE)
36 Chairperson: Prof. Malek Chebel, Paris
39 Discussant: Prof. Peter G. Xuereb, University of Malta
‘Doing with others as we do among ourselves’
64 The Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for Culture
67 WORKSHOP 2:
THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN AND CIVIL SOCIETY
(WOMEN’S ROLE IN DIALOGUE)
68 Chairperson: Mrs Simone Susskind, President of ‘Actions in the Mediterranean’
71 Discussant: Prof. Teresa Freixes, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Las aportaciones de las mujeres y la sociedad civil
83 WORKSHOP 3:
CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN EUROPE
(IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION)
84 Chairperson: Prof. Bichara Khader, Director of the Research Centre on the
Contemporary Arab World, Université catholique de Louvain
93 Discussant: Prof. Elspeth Guild, University of Nijmegen
Citizenship, social change and the EU constitution
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105 WORKSHOP 4:
THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN THE DIALOGUE
(IMPACT OF THE MEDIA: CROSS-CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS
106 Chairperson: Mr Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, Minister of State, Secretary-General
of the MEDEA Institute and Chairman of the Mediterranean Committee of the
International European Movement
107 Discussant: Prof. Joaquín Roy, University of Miami
The role of the media in the north–south intercultural dialogue
129 WORKSHOP 5:
EURO-MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGES
(THE DIALOGUE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT)
130 Discussant : Prof. Chibli Mallat, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut
171 WORKSHOP 6:
YOUTH AND THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR, TOLERANCE AND LAICISM
(THE DIALOGUE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT)
172 Chairperson: Prof. Predrag Matvejevic, Universities of Zagreb, La Sorbonne
and La Sapienza
176 Discussant: Prof. Enrique Banús, University of Navarra
181 CLOSING SESSION
182 Speech by Mrs Fatema Mernissi, writer
192 Speech by Mr Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission
197 PARTICIPANTS
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CONTENTS
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