European Muslim Initiative

“Prevention of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing” symposium

9-10 July 2013 Sarajevo/Bosnia

 Draft Agenda

First Day:  9 July 2013

10.00 – 14.00 Arrival of participants and guests

14.30 Departure from hotel to exhibition

15.00  Exhibition : “From Khojaly to Srebrenica” (in Novi Pazar)

16.30  Departure from exhibition to the : Meeting in Parliament, Local protocol, Religious Communities, International Organizations and media

17.30  Cultural event : Visit to Holy places and Srebrenica memorial

19.00  Dinner

Second Day: 10 July 2013

9.00 – 10.00    Registration

10:00 – 11:00   Officials Welcoming

                      Doudou DIENE – President of EMISCO and Former UN Rapporteur on Racism

                     Ganira PASHAYEVA  – Member of Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Jean-Marie HEYDT – Pdt of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe

Nedzad GRABUS – Mufti of Slovenia

Nedzad LATIC – Editor of the Revue Pan Bosnjak

11.00 – 11.15  Coffee –break

PANEL I

11:15 – 13:00 What is genocide? How to preserve civilians from mass killings during conflict periods?

Moderator:   Prof. Aristotle KALLİS – Professor of Modern History at Lancaster University

Speakers:

                   – Sevinç ISKENDEROVA – Presentation of JFK

                   – Prof. Admir MURATOVIC – Director of the Research Institute for crime and genocide

                   – Ridha AJMI – Secretary General of IIPJHR Geneva

                   – Nestor BIDADANURE – Journalist and Researcher on -Rwanda

                  – N. MAMMADLI – Khojaly genocide

                  – Munira SUBASIC – (Mothers of Srebrenica)

13:00 – Lunch

PANEL II

14.30 – 16.30 How to deal with the issue of mass killings in international level.

Moderator:   Halim GRABUS – President of Bosnian Community in Geneva

Speakers:

               – Cihangir İŞBİLİR – General Coordinator of UNIW

               – Hasan NUHANOVIC – Campaign “For truth and justice”

               – Bashy QURAISHY – President of Jewish Muslim Platform Brussels

               – Mireille FANON MENDES FRANCE – Member of UJFP (French Jewish Union for Peace)

16.30 –  16.45 Coffee –break

16.45 – 18.00  Workshop:

Writing of essays and presentation on “How we imagine the prevention of genocide”

18.00 – 18.30 closing (adoption of document)

                                 Dr Bülent ŞENAY – Member of OSCE Adviser Council on Human Rights

                                  Tuba BOZ – Vice-President of EMISCO, Sarajevo Int. University

19.00 Dinner